Did you enjoy the festival? FLF 2025 photographs are now up on our website 😍

Sarah Lonsdale talks about her new novel, Wildly Different, to a packed Arden theatre

What a finish to @favlit.org with @dannyrobins.bsky.social talking about his book ‘Into The Uncanny’ 👻

St Mary of Charity church looks decidedly SPOOKY as we await the appearance of paranormal investigator Danny Robins

Next up Leeroy Thornhill gives the lo down on ten years of raving through 80s and 90s with The Prodigy

@buzzcocks.com legend Steve Diggle shares a few Rock n Roll stories with our host Sîan Pattenden @sian-superman.bsky.social

Sebastian Faulks discusses The Seventh Son with Alex Preston

Michael Rosen brings the magic at FLF25

Bettany Hughes takes us on a voyage to the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

I'm saving up my @favlit.org commentary for a big reflection at the end, but it was splendid to meet @doctoroxford.bsky.social tonight! Blew the audience away with a very moving and patient centred focus. Nice to see @antonytiernan.bsky.social too.

Page vs. Stage: at @favlit.org THIS SATURDAY! Where does poetry live its best life, between the covers or on the boards? Join in with a lively panel discussion, then take the mic yourself! Open mic slots available (first come, first served). Sat 1 Mar, 12:30pm @ The Arden Theatre. £10.

Newsflash - A limited Michael Rosen tickets are available via the website

Pam Ayres.. what an absolute legend 😍

Had a great weekend of #rewilding, #folklore and #Shakespeare’s women @favlit.org ! Michael Rosen and Bettany Hughes to come.

Good to catch @jonathancoe.bsky.social at @favlit.org this evening. Interesting insight into the use of popular culture in his novels and how his biography of B.S. Johnson helped shape his sense of form. @richfrankrich.bsky.social

A fabulous bunch of Tedheads turned up at the @favlit.org for my talk with Clare Chambers about 'Picnic on Craggy Island', including the film researcher on the series, whom I hadn’t seen for 25 years!

Steve Crawshaw and Daniel Hahn tackle the pressing subject of geopolitics and accountability.

Iain Sinclair and Horatio Clare explore the life & work of photographer John Deakin this afternoon at FLF25.

What a blast we had on day one of FLF 2025. It's truly special to welcome back so many book lovers to Faversham. It's the biggest one yet and we can't wait to make it all happen!

Harry Baker was... Wonderful!

We’re looking forward to the fabulous Faversham Literary Festival @favlit.org which begins tomorrow with a cracking programme. Here are just a few of our favourites

This Sunday, Faversham Literary Festival, Wild Twin in conversation with Horatio Clare. Come! @favlit.org @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @horatioclare.bsky.social www.favershamliteraryfestival.org/programme/20... Details:

It's the first weekend of Faversham Literary Festival @favlit.org aka the most wonderful time of the year... looking forward to Xiaolu Guo tomorrow among many other things

There's a bustle of book lovers at the Assembly Rooms today in Faversham

Simply overjoyed to see THE STORY OF A HEART longlisted for the 2025 @womensprize.bsky.social for Non-Fiction. Huge congratulations to all 16 authors! The full, fabulous longlist is here: brnw.ch/21wQDrv #OrganDonation 🫀🫁💗

An unforgettable family story combined with the medical innovations behind transplant surgery. Dr Rachel Clarke @doctoroxford.bsky.social will be at the festival in conversation about her new book Tuesday 25 Feb Tickets via the festival website

Page vs. Stage: at @favlit.org Where does poetry live its best life, between the covers or on the boards? Join in with a lively panel discussion, then take the mic yourself! Open mic slots available (first come, first served). Sat 1 Mar, 12:30pm @ The Arden Theatre. £10.

Meet gold medal-winning paralympian Jonnie Peacock at the festival, where he will be talking about going for gold ... and getting it Saturday 1 March, 5–6pm See the festival website for info/ tickets

Wonderful opportunity to hear from @wildtwin.bsky.social at the @favlit.org next month. Ghost Town & Wild Twin are bloody brilliant www.favershamliteraryfestival.org/programme/2025

@favlit.org has a stellar line up this year and I’m very proud to be part of it. Join me on Sunday 2 March. Tickets available here, see you there! www.favershamliteraryfestival.org/programme/20... #mudlarkingfinds #mudlark #mudlarking @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

The author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, Helen Jukes, will be at the festival in conversation with Alex Preston about her new book, Mother Animal, a mix of personal memoir and scientific insight to ask how motherhood works in other species See the website for info/ tickets

Four weeks from today I'll be in conversation about Wild Twin with Horatio Clare at Faversham Literary Festival on Sunday 23rd February, 3pm. Come and see us! @horatioclare.bsky.social @favlit.org @littletollerbooks.bsky.social www.favershamliteraryfestival.org/programme/20... Details:

Will Self's latest... a brilliant portrait of a 1950s housewife, sexual freedom and sublimated desire, based on the diaries and life of his mother. This event will be a live link-up with Claire Armitstead on stage in Faversham, talking to Will Self via a live link-up at his home. Info via website

Last two tickets for Derek Gow talking about wolves, rewilding and species reintroduction into Britain Saturday 22 Feb – see the festival website for info/tickets

Another event! I'm delighted to be returning to the Faversham Lit Fest this year, one of my faves, where among other things I'll be reading I FOLLOW THE FOX and leading you all in a live Draw With Rob session. Tickets available now 👉https://tinyurl.com/52ukk6yz. More announcements coming soon...

Caroline Lucas, former leader of the Green Party, delves into our literary heritage to explore what it can teach us about the most pressing issues of our time. She will be talking to Claire Armitstead, former associate editor of Guardian Culture See the festival website for info/tickets

Great to be talking at @favlit.org this spring. @historialchats.bsky.social is a great speaker w a fascinating story too!

Delighted to be heading to the Faversham lit fest again!

Imagine reading your poetry on this stage to a welcoming, supportive, and inclusive audience. Now make that mental image reality, by attending Page vs Stage, at 12.30pm on 1st March, in the beautiful Arden Theatre for @favlit.org See the link in comments to grab tickets and secure your spot.

War stories – hear about the derring-do of Britain's Home Guard with @historialchats.bsky.social ; the untold story of a courageous resistance fighter with @claremulley.bsky.social; and friendship in the First World War trenches with Barney Campbell See the festival website for info & tickets

Trailblazing Irish author Eimear McBride, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction for her instant classic, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, will be at the festival talking about her new novel set in London, with former Guardian Culture editor Claire Armitstead Tickets via the festival website

Lots of fun-packed children's events are happening at the festival ... see the website for more details Events for all ages. Events to inspire and get children reading!!

This year's fiction authors – Sebastian Faulks, Sarah Perry and Kate Mosse are among the headliners. See the website for the full fiction line-up, including Eimear McBride Eliza Clark Nicolas Padamsee Jonathan Coe Nick Harkaway Scarlett Thomas Sonia Overall Monique Roffey ... and more

Among this year's poetry headliners: Reclaim the Streets to Gay Pride to Black Lives Matter with Jackie Kay; national treasures Roger McGough and Pam Ayres; World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker making fun with wellies, postcodes and beer Plus local poets & Open Mic See the website for info/tickets

Travel across landscapes, forms of memory, cities and relics, from street photography and London's lost bohemia to grifters, drifters and literary hauntings; the Kent coast and a modern pilgrimage... Iain Sinclair; Jeff Young; Horatio Clare; Rod Edmond; Oliver Smith See the website for info/ tickets

Very excited to be appearing at @favlit.org in the New Year! Join me, @gregmosse.bsky.social and Julie Wassmer to talk about our latest novels and our characters. Our event is on 22nd Feb at 3pm. See you there!

Fantastic line-up at Faversham this year! Book early because the Faversham audience is keen and events sell out!! I will be interviewing Tasmeem Abdur Rashid on Sat 22nd Feb and reading from Wish, my New and Selected poems later in the day. @favlit.org #wishpoems www.favershamliteraryfestival.org

Tickets now available 21 Feb–2 March 2025... more than 80 events Ten days of author talks including Led By Donkeys, Miranda Sawyer, Sarah Perry, Danny Robins, Caroline Lucas, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jackie Kay, Will Self, Eliza Clark, Wayne Sleep, Jeff Young, Steve Diggle (Buzzcocks),...

WILD TWIN, FAVERSHAM LITERARY FESTIVAL. I'll be in conversation with my friend Horatio Clare. Sunday 23rd February, Details attached: @littletollerbooks.bsky.social @favlit.org @horatioclare.bsky.social www.favershamliteraryfestival.org/programme/20...