AN INAUGURAL LITERARY FESTIVAL FOR THE FLEET STREET QUARTER
The Festival programme will feature events spanning current affairs and journalism, fiction, screenwriting, poetry and spoken word, and family and children’s events.
FESTIVAL PARTNERS
SATURDAY 17TH MAY
Authors Jojo Moyes is joined by Mike Gayle to discuss their latest books, writing relationships, and creating memorable characters.
WEDNESDAY 14TH MAY
Booker Prize winning author Ben Okri discusses his brand new novella Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken-Hearted with Fee Mak.
WEDNESDAY 14TH MAY
Chief Historian of Historic Royal Palaces, Tracy Borman sheds light on one of the most powerful and fascinating men of the Tudor period, Thomas Cromwell.
WEDNESDAY 14TH MAY
Julia Wheeler speaks to broadcaster and Radio 2 DJ Jeremy Vine about his recently published book, Murder on Line One
THURSDAY 15TH MAY
Iain Dale joins authors Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Richard Evans, from his new book, The Dictators: 64 Dictators, 64 Authors, 64 Warnings from History
THURSDAY 15TH MAY
Professor Kate Loveman explores Samuel Pepys’ infamous diary, its history, hidden secrets, and impact, 200 years on from its first publication.
THURSDAY 15TH MAY
Author Mick Herron and screenwriter Ed Docx discuss adapting Slow Horses for TV, exploring creative input, challenges, and inspirations.
FRIDAY 16TH MAY
Journalists Caroline Wheeler and Nick Wallis discuss their investigations into NHS blood disaster and the Post Office Horizon scandal.
SATURDAY 17TH MAY
Larry Lamb & Camilla Barnes discuss their paths to publication, from Larry's All Wrapped Up, to Camilla's debut The Usual Desire to Kill
WEDNESDAY 14TH, THURSDAY 15TH MAY & FRIDAY 16TH MAY
Join journalists from The Guardian, The Times and The Daily Telegraph for breakfast briefings as they review the headlines of the day.
Advisory Board
Lady Lucy French OBE
CEO, Fleet Street Quarter BID
Damian Collins OBE
Festival Director
Author, former Chair of the House Select Committee for Digital Culture, Media and Sport, and MP for Folkestone and Hythe from 2010 to 2024
Nick Addyman
Founder and Chair of Laurus Law and former board member of the English National Opera
Diane Banks
Literary agent and Chief Executive of Northbank Talent Agency
Lord Black of Brentwood
Deputy Chairman, Telegraph Media Group
Tim Bouverie
History writer and broadcaster
Baroness Beeban
Kidron
Film and television director (Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason; Oranges are Not the Only Fruit) and member of the House of Lords
Florence King
Lady Mayoress of the City of London
Simon Kingston
Managing Director, Russell Reynolds Associates and creator of the West Cork History Festival
Alex Macqueen
Film and television actor (The Thick of It; The Inbetweeners)
John Nicolson
Journalist, broadcaster and politician
Sarah Richardson
Senior advisor to the Global Innovation Fund and former Lord Mayor of the City of Westminster
Dr Damian Tambini
Distinguished Policy Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE