15 - 25 October 2026

Wimbledon BookFest 2026

Saturday 17 October
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 10:00 am
Mariesa Dulak – children’s event
Tigers, Trains and Crocodiles
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 11:30 am
Chris Riddell – children’s event
The Underwater World of Mermaids
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 11:30 am
Nick Manning: local history
Wimbledon & Putney Commons: Cultural Connections
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm
Max Hastings
Plunder - The End of World War II
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 1:00 pm
Miye Lee: K-Fiction
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 1:00 pm
Jane Ohlmeyer: Making Empire
Ireland — Britain's First Colony
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm
Sold Out
Robert Harris
Agrippa - Birth of the Roman Empire
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 2:30 pm
Sold Out
Gwendoline Riley & David Szalay
Award-Winning Fiction
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 2:30 pm
Colin Grant with Isabelle Dupuy & Suzanne Harrington
Voices of Migration to Britain
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 3:00 pm
Catharine Edwards with Mary Beard
The Life of Cicero & the End of the Roman Republic
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 3:00 pm
Sold Out
Sheila Crowley – Creative Writing Masterclass
Hooking the Reader: The First 2,000 Words
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 4:00 pm
Zakia Sewell: Finding Albion
Finding Albion: Myth & Folklore
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 4:00 pm
Sophia Smith Galer & Laura Spinney
How Languages Live and Die
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm
Louise Kennedy
STATIONS
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 5:40 pm
Laleh Khadivi, Amy Abdelnoor, Avni Doshi & Intan Paramaditha
Belonging and Its Borders
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 6:00 pm
Sebastian Barry
Former Irish Laureate
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm
Sold Out
Julian Clary
The Midmorning Murders
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 7:30 pm
African & Caribbean Storytelling
Orature in Motion - With Mic Lord, Alex Oma-Pius and Olu Oke
Sat 17 Oct 2026, 7:30 pm
Celia Imrie
Adventures from a Life on the Move 
Sunday 18 October
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 10:00 am
Ed Vere – children’s event
Waffles & Julius
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 10:00 am
Ashley Hickson-Lovence – Creative Writing Masterclass
Crafting Stories for the Next Generation (YA & Children's fiction)
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 11:00 am
Sold Out
Dr Sian Williams
The Power of Anxiety
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 11:30 am
Sold Out
Rob Biddulph – children’s event
South - Drawalong
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm
Professor Tanya Byron
You are Not a Diagnosis
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 12:30 pm
Greg Doran & Daniel Hahn
Shakespeare Around the World
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 1:00 pm
Burhan Sönmez & Mariusz Szczygieł
Unspoken Conversations
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm
Sold Out
Xand van Tulleken
Exposing the Wellness Industry
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 2:00 pm
Daisy Fancourt
The Art Cure
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 2:30 pm
Ashley Hickson-Lovence & Luke Kennard
Unmaking the Man
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 3:00 pm
Sophie Raworth
From BBC Headlines to Life-Changing Finish Lines
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 3:30 pm
Janina Ramirez
The Real Women Behind the Myths that Shaped Europe
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 4:00 pm
Sold Out
Meg Mason & Bella Mackie
The Dark Comedy of Being a Woman
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm
Sold Out
Matt Haig
The Midnight World
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 5:00 pm
Sold Out
Dr Maggie Aderin
From Camden to the Cosmos
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 5:30 pm
Ela Lee, Defne Suman & Catherine Cho
Family Secrets, Hidden Histories
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 6:00 pm
Alan Davies
Comedy, Fame & Fallout
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm
Sold Out
The MI5 Archive – Mark Dunton
Official Secrets
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm
M. John Harrison
The End of Everything
Sun 18 Oct 2026, 7:30 pm
Sold Out
Maggie O’Farrell
From Hamnet to Land
Monday 19 October
Mon 19 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm
Sold Out
Louise Doughty – Creative Writing Masterclass
Writing Thrillers & Dark Fiction
Mon 19 Oct 2026, 6:00 pm
Patrick Gale & Louise Doughty
Writing Family
Mon 19 Oct 2026, 6:00 pm
Sold Out
Jim Al-Khalili
The Physics that Makes the Universe Tick
Mon 19 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm
Stephen Sackur with Caroline Wheeler
Investigative Journalism - Why We Need It
Mon 19 Oct 2026, 7:30 pm
Kiran Millwood Hargrave & Sarvat Hasin
New Fiction - Strange Girls & Almost Life
Mon 19 Oct 2026, 7:30 pm
Martin Gayford: Take 3 Artists
The Artists’ Biographer
Mon 19 Oct 2026, 8:00 pm
Sold Out
Marina Hyde
What a Time to Be Alive!
Tuesday 20 October
Tue 20 Oct 2026, 6:00 pm
Sold Out
Margaret Drabble
A Life in Writing
Tue 20 Oct 2026, 6:00 pm
Saima Mir, Harriet Tyce & Vaseem Khan
Killer Instincts
Tue 20 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm
Anthony Seldon & Marina Wheeler
The Brexit Effect
Tue 20 Oct 2026, 7:30 pm
Suede: Mat Osman & Rodge Glass
Tue 20 Oct 2026, 7:30 pm
Alexandra Potter
In partnership with Good Housekeeping
Tue 20 Oct 2026, 8:00 pm
The Good, The Bad & The Rugby – Reloaded
Podcasters Alex Payne & James Haskell
Wednesday 21 October
Wed 21 Oct 2026, 6:00 pm
Sold Out
Victoria Hislop
The Wine-Dark Sea
Wed 21 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm
Luke Harding & Tim Marshall
The New International Order
Wed 21 Oct 2026, 7:30 pm
Poorna Bell & Bryony Gordon
Reclaiming Midlife
Wed 21 Oct 2026, 8:00 pm
Jamison R. Firestone & Bill Browder
Chaos, Corruption, and Murder in Putin's Russia
Thursday 22 October
Thu 22 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm
Lord Alf Dubs
An Extraordinary Life
Thu 22 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm
John Lanchester
Look What You Made Me Do
Thu 22 Oct 2026, 8:00 pm
Sold Out
William Boyd
Cold Sunset
Thu 22 Oct 2026, 8:00 pm
Amanda Wakeley & Camilla Morton
The Iconic Designer
Friday 23 October
Fri 23 Oct 2026, 6:00 pm
Sold Out
AFC Wimbledon
Ivor Heller with Mike Dunn - Book Launch
Fri 23 Oct 2026, 6:00 pm
Lady Anne Glenconner
Journeys Through Life
Fri 23 Oct 2026, 7:30 pm
Rachael Stirling & Guy Garvey – Diana Rigg
Remembering Diana Rigg
Fri 23 Oct 2026, 7:30 pm
Film Screening- No Other Choice
With Intro
Saturday 24 October
Sat 24 Oct 2026, 10:00 am
Sold Out
Silk Road Slippers – Creative Writing Masterclass
ALEXANDRA PRINGLE, ALEX VON TUNZELMAN & FAIZA S KHAN
Sat 24 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm
Ian Botham
The Sporting Hero
Sat 24 Oct 2026, 12:30 pm
Alex Edmans
The Madness of Markets: Why Smart Investors Make Crazy Decisions
Sat 24 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm
Jamie Bartlett
AI - How to Talk to the Machines
Sat 24 Oct 2026, 2:00 pm
Tahmima Anam & Megha Mohan
Stories of Female Empowerment
Sat 24 Oct 2026, 3:00 pm
Sold Out
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Making of the Modern Middle East
Sat 24 Oct 2026, 3:30 pm
Zahra Joya
The Vanishing Girl of Kabul
Sat 24 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm
Sold Out
Elif Shafak
In One Brief Moment, All Eternity
Sat 24 Oct 2026, 5:00 pm
Kadiatu & Braimah Kanneh-Mason
Young, Gifted & Black
Sat 24 Oct 2026, 6:30 pm
Chineke! LIVE
Young, Gifted & Black Concert
Sat 24 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm
Mary Lawson
Solace in Winter
Sat 24 Oct 2026, 8:00 pm
Clive Anderson
An evening with the Broadcaster & Comedian
Sunday 25 October
Sun 25 Oct 2026, 10:30 am
Clare Balding – Live Podcast Recording
The Joy of Books
Sun 25 Oct 2026, 11:30 am
Harriet Rix
The Genius of Trees
Sun 25 Oct 2026, 12:00 pm
Tim Spector
Good Mood Food
Sun 25 Oct 2026, 1:00 pm
Sold Out
Sathnam Sanghera: George Michael
George Michael - The Voice of a Generation
Sun 25 Oct 2026, 1:30 pm
John Sweeney & Peter Chappell
The Rise of Reform
Sun 25 Oct 2026, 2:30 pm
Jeevan Vasagar & Arthur Snell
Climate - Rising Tides, Shifting Powers
Sun 25 Oct 2026, 3:00 pm
Craig Revel Horwood
From Strictly to Stage Left
Sun 25 Oct 2026, 4:00 pm
Robin Lustig
And the Cello Came Too
Sun 25 Oct 2026, 4:30 pm
Sold Out
Meera Syal
BAFTA winning actor, comedian and writer shares her lifestory
Sun 25 Oct 2026, 5:30 pm
Samira Ahmed & Stuart Maconie
The Beatles - The Band Who Made Britain
Sun 25 Oct 2026, 6:00 pm
Sold Out
Caitlin Moran
How to Be Hopeful
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