Event News

Explore our 2025 closing weekend with journalist Samara Watts

We celebrated our most successful year ever as record numbers enjoyed more than 100 events in 10 days, with headliners including Rupert Everett, Jung Chang, Elif Shafak, Dame Harriet Walter, Adam Buxton, Irvine Welsh, David Nicholls, Lemn Sissay, Ed Davey MP, Lyse Doucet, Philippe Sands, Raymond Antrobus, Shirley Ballas and Lady Hale.

You’ve probably seen Mahin Hussain’s Gola Ganda, the bold and vibrant cover art for Wimbledon BookFest this year. It is hard to miss, with its striking colours standing out against Wimbledon’s buildings and train station walls.

UK Premiere of Jeanette Winterson’s  The Gap of Time (The Winter’s Tale)

For the first time, Korean Pansori: A Winter’s Tale travels from Seoul to London for Wimbledon BookFest 2025.

Every legend is made through the stories that are told about them, and this year more than 2000 children across 70 schools created their own in Wimbledon BookFest’s Young Writers Competition.

London’s leading arts and culture festival expands global partnerships to celebrate connections between communities.

We’re thrilled to announce that the Wimbledon BookFest Autumn Festival 2025 print programme has officially landed! This year’s festival – running from 16–26 October – features 100+ incredible events newly announced guests, and brand-new strands including Writing Workshops and Table Talk, our new food and drink series.

We were honored to host the UK school’s launch of the Right Honourable Dame Jacinda Ardern’s memoir, A Different Kind of Power, Monday 16 June, as part of their education programme.

We were delighted to curate the Bibliotherapy Reading list for our Friends at Viking, and invite some of our authors to their beautiful garden at RHS Chelsea.