Faversham Literary Festival
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Book talks. In a brewery! 10-days of author talks and book events taking place annually in a Kentish medieval market town 20 Feb – 1 Mar 2026 Sign up for the festival newsletter to hear news about what's coming!
Listened to Dominic Gregory talk about his book #LifeboatAtTheEndOfTheWorld as a volunteer with the @RNLI Dungeness @favlit.org He received a standing ovation for his work & the crew as well as everyone who volunteers for the RNLI. Can’t wait to read the book. #RNLIDungeness #SavingLives #Kent
This! 👇 #booklover #litfest 🤩🤩🤩
Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis year's @favlit.org shelf... smaller than it might have been because I was away last weekend, sad to miss Marina Warner, Natalie Haynes, Ben Okri & more. And even this week can't see everyone! A whole universe of imagination & humanity spiralling out from this small North Kent town.
Thanks so much to everyone who came to my event today at @favlit.org, we filled the chapel and made comics about fart cannons and a mad scientist called Albert Egg-stein. What a ridiculous/great day! 🍳 (Thanks to Jo for the pics and the talented artist whose comic I’m posting here!)
"I'm there to tell a moral story of the government" - whoever is in power. John Crace cracks up the house at Faversham with a Liz Truss story then explains why he is an equal opportunities lampooner. #politics
Faversham Literary Festival@favlit.org · 5mo agoJohn Crace discusses 'The Bonfire of the Insanities' with Gavin Esler. A full house for topical political satire on (yet another) big news day. #books
John Crace discusses 'The Bonfire of the Insanities' with Gavin Esler. A full house for topical political satire on (yet another) big news day. #books
Really enjoyed listening to Francis Spufford talk about writing in general and Nonesuch in particular at @favlit.org yesterday See him on tour if you can
Flower power! Sarah Raven has a blooming packed church for 'A Year of Cut Flowers'. Likes the hyacinths that are already out in Faversham 🌷🏵🪻🌻🌹
Kenan Malik, ('Not So Black and White'), Yvonne Singh, author of ('Ink: From the Age of Empire to Black Power') and event chair Sarah Shaffi talk about how labels and divisive rhetoric create friction where people have actually have common interests - halting any chance of collective bargaining etc.
People up on their feet to applaud Dominic Gregory ('Lifeboat at the End of the World'), and the RNLI who have been single-mindedly saving lives at sea for centuries. #books
What a venue - and what a queue! There's a massive line of excited little people tugging at parents' hands for Jamie Smart here in Faversham 😀 #comics
Jamie Smart@jamiesmart.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat a venue for a comic making workshop! Faversham I’m on at 12! We’re sold out but apparently there are a few tickets on the door if you’re quick 😬
And now I’m off to @favlit.org to talk race, class, history and identity with @yvonnesingh.bsky.social and @sarahshaffi.bsky.social www.favershamliteraryfestival.org/2026/events/...
Kenan Malik and Yvonne Singh
Today's pertinent issues around culture and privilege, race, inequality and class – and how the legacies and struggles of the past have shaped Britain’s present – are discussed with broadcaster and...
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Really made up to meet my favourite author, Francis Spufford, at @favlit.org today. Absolute gent and I’m so looking forward to reading his latest, Nonesuch
Tender is the (Saturday) night in Faversham. #Poetry from Harry Baker. '100 Poems for the First 100 Days of Life' is his celebration of fatherhood and all that entails.
Light at the end of the tunnel? "We evolved to tell better #stories to each other... we need to tell better stories...ditch the lousy ones..." Jeanette Winterson holds the Kent audience rapt. "We're not our CVs or the facts of our lives - we're more than that."
Youth clubs as incubators of talent, meeting spaces - and so much more with Emma Warren and Stef Macbeth. The hidden legacy of youth work and why these spaces matter. And a novel set against the 90s backdrop of DIY soundsystems #youthwork #dancemusic
"I thought: 'How can I do something that is thrilling and can change the world?'" Jon King relates how he was inspired by #Situationism, at Leeds. Music, social history and much much more.
"I wrote this book to challenge the reader". What do we do when there is moral complexity? Do immigrants have to be perfect to be accepted? Stereotypes dehumanisine - whether good or bad. (Author and immigration solicitor Tawseef Khan at Faversham). #books
A consistent theme in the books discussion by authors Anouchka Grose and then in a different session Tawseef Khan: being distracted (by work, by advertising etc) from really honestly thinking about the world we want to inhabit - and who we want to be in it. #books
The glorious Guildhall is all set for Tawseef Khan who has come from Manchester to talk about his novel 'Determination'. #books
Anouchka Grose brings the positive energy and gets ready in the school corridor to discuss 'The Revolution Will Be Internalised' with Anna Whitwham ('Soft Tissue Damage'). A timely book in a troubled world... 🌍
The Tsars have aligned, for Rasputin in the church... Filling up nicely for Antony Beevor in St Mary of Charity.
Getting ready for a big crowd of excited kids🏃♀️🏃🏾♀️🏃♂️ (and parents) for @robbiddulph.bsky.social at the Queen Elizabeth school in historic Faversham💥. Yes, he's always a big *draw*. 😀😀😀😀
Why so glum? Unfortunately Mark Kermode was sold out last night at the literary festival and this guy couldn't get in to St Mary's. 🤷
