Isle of Wight Literary Festival

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A popular annual event in the Isle of Wight calendar, the Isle of Wight Literary Festival will be held between the 3rd and 6th October 2024 at Northwood House, Cowes. The festival will once again be providing a varied and exciting programme with something for everyone.

History, politics, current affairs, environmental matters and law are among the topics featured at this year's Festival.

Top literary names from television, politics, history and the world of food and drink are among headline authors who will be appearing at this year’s Isle of Wight Literary Festival.

Speakers lined up to appear at the festival is MP and TV personality Gyles Brandreth, TV lexicographer and Countdown star Susie Dent and General Sir Michael Jackson, GCB, CBE, DSO, DL, one of the British Army’s most high-profile generals since the Second World War.

Also appearing will be former Government minister Rt. Hon. The Lord Fowler, celebrated music writer and publisher David Hepworth, author and wine expert Helen McGinn, historian Tracy Borman, Atlantic rower Simon Howes and reporter-turned-author Martin Sixsmith, who returns to the festival following a sell-out appearance last year.

As well as a stream of highly renowned authors, the festival will also feature a new jazz event and the return of the popular Fizz Quiz (Thursday 3rd October, 7.30pm at the Island Sailing Club).

The Lit Feast also returns bringing a smorgasbord of talks and demonstration to tickle the palate and feed the brain.

There will also be new events, an expanded schools’ programme, plus, for the first time an event outside of its traditional base in Cowes, Sir Michael Morpurgo will deliver a spectacular concert version of his much-loved book War Horse at Medina Theatre in Newport.

For more information visit https://northwoodhouse.org/event/the-isle-of-wight-literary-festival/