We are delighted to support the Ealing Book Festival which will take place during 11-14 April. Read all about it here.
We also support Read Easy Ealing as one of our three reading charities.
The Chiswick Book Festival has always had close ties with Ealing:
- Much of Chiswick W4 lies in the Borough of Ealing, and the Festival itself sprang out of the Ealing Literary Festival which took place on Acton Green W4 in 2007 and 2008. In 2009, it moved into Ealing Library, which meant we could launch the first Chiswick Book Festival.
- Scroll down to read about the ‘Timeline of Ealing Writers & Books’, compiled by our Ealing co-ordinator Roger Green.
- In 2019 and 2020, we were invited to run our first Festival events in Ealing – at Gunnersbury Museum.
- In 2020, we also celebrated Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress Exhibition at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery.
- Our Festival ‘Chiswick Writers Walks’ are conducted by Ealing & West London Tour Guides. Our Festival leaflets can be found at Waterstones Ealing or Pitshanger Books
- In 2021, we held our first events at the University of West London.
- Read about The Ealing Sessions at UWL with Rory Cellan-Jones (above) and the Ealing Fiction Panel.
- For several years, the University has been a sponsor of the Chiswick Book Festival (see photo below of Clare Balding with Hunter Davies at ArtsEd W4 during the 2017 Festival).
The Timeline of Ealing Writers and Books
In 2020 we launched a Timeline of Ealing Writers and Books, compiled by our Ealing co-ordinator Roger Green, to complement the Chiswick archive. The Borough of Ealing boasts an array of celebrated writers, from Henry Fielding and Ho Chi Minh to Agatha Christie and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
The Ealing authors can also be found listed by subject here:
Fiction and poetry
Non-fiction
See also Chiswick Timeline: Beyond W4