Programme Preview: Save the dates – September 9-14 2026. Tickets will go on sale at the end of June.

First Details Announced of 2026 Festival Programme
Chiswick Book Festival reveals first details of a packed programme for 2026 – The Chiswick Calendar
Beatles, Royals, Politics, Spies and Literary Stars – ChiswickW4.com
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In 1966, the Beatles famously filmed two of the first pop videos in the Gardens of Chiswick House (above left – photo by Robert Whitaker, courtesy CHGT). On Thursday September 10th, broadcaster Samira Ahmed, whose BFI book about A Hard Day’s Night was launched last week at the National Film Theatre, will chair a distinguished Festival panel on The Beatles: Film, Fame and Social Change.
Other authors at this year’s Festival will include Robert Hardman, Nick Clegg, Sarah Vine, Jacqueline Wilson, Jane Thynne and Charles Cumming.

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First Names: Robert Hardman, Nick Clegg, Samira Ahmed, Jacqueline Wilson, Ben Macintyre + Young Poets + talks, quiz this week!


Relive the highlights of our 2025 Festival
Picture Gallery

Read the Chiswick Calendar reports of Gill Hornby on Jane Austen, Jeremy Hunt, Kathy Lette, Alan Johnson, Lyse Doucet, William Dalrymple and more! And see our Picture Gallery above.
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