Cliveden Literary Festival 2025

"The most dignified and beautiful literary festival on the planet"
Alain de Botton

Taking place at the historic Cliveden House in Berkshire, this year's festival features the leading writers of today across culture, politics and history. Highlights will include: Ian Rankin, Salman Rushdie, Richard E Grant, Douglas Murray, Jung Chang, Niall Ferguson, Hallie Rubenhold & Alain de Botton to name just a few.

Alongside, a panel of experts will gather to discuss 2025's most compelling issues. In the political sphere, guests will learn about intrigue inside the White House, the divided American nation, and 21st-century espionage. In the literary realm, visitors will hear about the enduring allure of Jane Austen, or the writing if crime stories both real and fictional. And the most pressing questions in British politics will be cross-examined in Cliveden's very own Question Time, with Alex Burghart and Emily Maitlis.

The Literary Festival is renowned as a forum for lively discussion, thought-provoking ideas, and political debate, in the most beautiful of settings, with something for everyone.

Now in its eighth year, the festival revives Cliveden House's rich history as a literary salon frequented by writers and thinkers from Alexander Pope to Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Swift and Winston Churchill.

A sell-out success every year, be sure to secure your place quickly.