Tickets Now on Sale for This Year's Wimbledon BookFest
Line up features Clive Myrie, Ben Okri, Anne Enright, David Baddiel and many more
Clive Myrie (left). Picture: Sophia Spring. David Baddiel (right). Picture: Steve Best/Xavicus Media
August 28, 2023
Tickets are selling fast for this year’s Wimbledon Book Festival which is being held for the sixteenth time.
Describing itself as London’s leading arts and culture festival, it runs from Thursday 12 October to Sunday 22 October.
Over these ten days there is an eclectic range of talks from well-known authors from the worlds of literature, politics, academia, food and sport including Clive Myrie, Ben Okri, Steve Backshall, Peter Frankopan, Annie Macmanus, Wes Streeting, Anne Enright, Afua Hirsch, Paterson Joseph, Tom Holland, Rick Stein and Janice Hallett.
There will also be a programme of events for children featuring Wimbledon’s most famous residents – the Wombles.
Celebrating connections across borders, BookFest will host Iran – Woman Life Freedom, a panel event and exhibition showcasing art from the recent protests in Iran in libraries across Merton, while a partnership with the prestigious Lahore Literary Festival brings a strand of events featuring South Asian creatives to the Festival.
Tickets on sale now at wimbledonbookfest.org.
LISTINGS INFORMATION
Festival Hub, Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library, 35 Wimbledon Hill Road, SW19 7NB Box office: wimbledonbookfest.org
Thursday 28 September 7pm Steve Backshall – Oceans, Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library, £15
Thursday 12 October 7.30pm Kate Mosse & S.J. Parris, Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library, £10
Friday 13 October 6pm Paterson Joseph, Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library, £10
8pm Annie Macmanus, Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library, £12.50
Saturday 14 October 10am Ed Vere: The Artist, Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library, £7.50
10am Radical Walk with Peter Walker, Off-site, £15
11.30am Sophy Henn: Lifesize, Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library, £7.50
12.30pm Linda Yueh, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £15
2pm Henry Marsh, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £15
2.30pm Gelong Thubten, Wimbledon High School Hall, £17.50/£15
2.30pm Susie Alegre & David Runciman, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
3pm History of the Tattoo with Matt Lodder, Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library, £7.50
4pm Emma Gannon & Thomas Curran, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £15
5pm Iran: Woman Life Freedom, Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library, £7.50
6.30pm Alexander McCall Smith, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
Sunday 15 October 12noon Anthony Seldon, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15 12.30pm Nandini Das, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £12.50
2pm Afua Hirsch, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £10
2pm Blake Morrison, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
4pm Reclaiming the Witch, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £12.50
4.30pm Lisa Snowdon, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
6pm Anne Enright, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £15
6.30pm Mike Brearley, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
8pm Ben Okri - The Wasteland, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £20
Monday 16 October
6pm Lewis Dartnell, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £12.50
6pm Ed Stourton, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
8pm Writing the Royals, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £12.50
8pm Gavin Esler, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
Tuesday 17 October 6pm Alison Weir, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £12.50
6pm David Kynaston & Craig Brown, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
7.30pm Peter Frankopan, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
Wednesday 18 October 6pm Rose Tremain, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £12.50
6pm Chris Bryant & Ian Dunt, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
8pm Anna Murphy, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £15
8pm Wes Streeting, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
Thursday 19 October 6pm Katherine Rundell, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £15
6.30pm Tim Marshall, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
8pm Will Gompertz, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £15
8pm Danny Cipriani, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
Friday 20 October 5pm Timothy West, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £15
7pm Xiaolu Guo, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £12.50
7.30pm QI Elves Sports Quiz, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
Saturday 21 October 12noon Natalie Haynes, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £15 12.30pm Fermented Food: Cabbages & Kimchi, Wimbledon High School Hall, £10
2pm Islamic Architecture & Europe, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £12.50
4pm Janice Hallett, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £12.50
4.30pm Clive Myrie, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £22.50/£20
5.30pm Living Between Two Cultures - Aasmah Mir & Osman Yousefzada, Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library, £7.50
6.30pm Sebastian Faulks, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
Sunday 22 October 10.30am Marvellous Myth Hunter, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £7.50
12noon Why We Grow, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £12.50
2pm Janina Ramirez, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £12.50
2.30pm Walk: Wimbledon and the Age of Slavery, Off-site, £15
2.30pm David Baddiel, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
3pm Ravinder Bhogal, Wimbledon High School Hall, £15
4pm Tom Holland, Rutherford Theatre, Wimbledon High School, £15
4.30pm Philippa Gregory, Baillie Gifford Auditorium, Wimbledon High School, £17.50/£15
Sunday 29 October 6.30pm Rick Stein, New Wimbledon Theatre, £25/£32.50
Wimbledon BookFest is a London literary festival founded in 2006 by Fiona Razvi and Tony Kane. BookFest’s aim is to develop the role of arts and culture in the area, working with community and arts partners, schools, libraries and businesses.
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