We are so excited to announce our first speaker for Sevenoaks Literary Festival 2022, the poet, memoirist and academic, Hannah Lowe. Hannah will be talking about her extraordinary poetry collection, ‘The Kids’, which won both the Costa Poetry Award and the Costa Book of the Year, 2021 and was the Poetry Book Society Choice for…

A Matter of Life and Cricket with Felix White at Sevenoaks Literary Festival 2022 Broadcaster, musician and cricket podcaster Felix White will be talking about his Sunday Times bestselling memoir ‘It’s Always Summer Somewhere’. This is a funny, heartbreaking and endlessly engaging love letter to the game of cricket. Felix White co-presents the podcast Tailenders…

We are busy booking our exciting line up for the 2022 Sevenoaks Literary Festival and we want to hear from you!  There were so many highlights to last year’s festival (pictured Marina Wheeler discussing her memoir, The Lost Homestead) and we want you to help us carry on from last year’s success. Which authors would…

Our wonderful local bookshop was honoured as the best independent bookseller in the whole of the UK and Ireland. Sevenoaks Bookshop was named as the best independent bookshop in the south-east – and then also took the top prize at the 2021 British Book Awards. Our festival’s past and present is interlinked with the bookshop,…