Returning for its ninth year, the Cliveden Literary Festival is a unique forum for lively discussion, thought-provoking ideas, and political debate. When Her Majesty The Queen attended Cliveden Literary Festival last year, she described it as ‘A perfection of a literary festival’.
The 2025 programme featured: Ian Rankin, Salman Rushdie, Richard E Grant, Douglas Murray, Jung Chang, Niall Ferguson, Hallie Rubenhold, Alain de Botton, Elif Shafak, Marlon James, Anthony Horowitz, Wes Streeting, William Boyd, Emily Maitlis, Michael Gove, Helen Castor, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and many more.
Cliveden Literary Festival is run by a committee of authors and historians – Andrew Roberts, Natalie Livingstone, Catherine Ostler and Simon Sebag Montefiore – drawing on Cliveden House’s unique history as a literary salon frequented by writers and thinkers including Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Swift and Sir Winston Churchill.
Tickets will go on sale in late July 2026. Please sign up to the Cliveden Literary Festival newsletter and follow on X and Instagram to be notified when tickets go on sale.
Visitors to Cliveden Literary Festival will also have the opportunity to explore the beautiful National Trust gardens and enjoy scenic walks down to the River Thames.
Cliveden House, operated by the Iconic Luxury Hotel group, has been awarded a Forbes Travel Guide Star Award, and Condé Nast Johansens Award for Excellence.
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