We’ve added an extra ‘Beatles in Chiswick’ walk on Saturday and a ‘Chiswick Rocks’ walk on Sunday this week, both with Blue Badge guide Guy Fairbank! Book tickets here.
The queue to watch Ben Macintyre talking to Charles Cumming at the 18th Chiswick Book Festival, 9-14 September 2026. The annual Chiswick Book Festival (chiswickbookfestival.net) is a non-profit-making community event, raising money for St Michael and All Angels Church, which hosts the event, and three charities.Fergal Keane talking to Julian Worricker at the 18th Chiswick Book Festival, 9-14 September 2026.
Thanks for coming – and to all who helped make this year’s Festival such an enthralling and entertaining few days. Read full reports by Bridget Osborne at The Chiswick Calendar with photographs by Roger Green.
Beloved best-selling children’s author Dame Jacqueline Wilson (l) returned to Chiswick to talk to former BBC arts correspondent Rebecca Jones (r) about her latest novel, Esme Pepper at the 18th Chiswick Book Festival, 9-14 September 2026.
Warning: A few authors still report receiving scam emails inviting them to take part in this year’s Festival. If you get one, please forward it to us at admin@chiswickbookfestival.net and report it to Gmail as ‘Pfishing’. We apologise for the inconvenience.
