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Cliveden Literary Festival

By Thames Path National Trail on Sep. 29, 2025

Cliveden Literary Festival is back for 2025

Established in 2017 and now in its eighth year, Cliveden Literary Festival is hosted at the iconic Cliveden House in Berkshire over the weekend of the 11^th -12^th October 2025.

Renowned as a forum for lively discussion, innovative ideas, and political debate, Cliveden Literary Festival has been described by Ian McEwan as ‘probably the world’s best small literary festival,’ and by Alain de Botton as ‘the most dignified and beautiful literary festival on the planet’.

Run by a committee of writers and historians – Andrew Roberts, Natalie Livingstone, Catherine Ostler and Simon Sebag Montefiore – Cliveden Literary Festival draws on Cliveden House’s unique history as a literary salon frequented by writers and thinkers including Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Swift and Sir Winston Churchill.

A sell-out success every year – find out more: Festival – Cliveden Literary Festival

Get your tickets here: Tickets – Cliveden Literary Festival

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The Thames Path National Trail team oversee the Thames Path from its source in the Cotswolds to its end in Woolwich, London.