The Ninth Chiswick Book Festival took place from September 14th to 18th 2017. Thank you to everyone who took part – speakers, audiences, volunteers and sponsors – and to the venue owners who provided the space and facilities to hold our events. Particular thanks to the team from Waterstones, without whom we couldn’t sell all the books!
Together they helped us donate a total of £7,200 to our three reading charities and to St Michael & All Angels Church which hosts the Festival.
Speakers included Jeremy Vine, Clare Balding, David Baddiel, Hunter Davies, Jo Malone, Nicholas Crane (all pictured above), Laurence Rees, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Deborah Cadbury, Maggie O’Farrell, Oz Clarke, Elizabeth Buchan, Peter Hennessy, Robin Lustig, Anne Sebba, Sarah Outen, Harry Mount, John O’Farrell, Jill Dawson, Marcel Theroux, Craig Oliver, Mark Oakley, Rachel Joyce, Sarah Winman, Will Grove-White, James Thornton, Martin Goodman and many others.
Read more about them in our A to Z of Speakers
See also: Festival Speakers Day by Day
Download the 2017 Festival brochure here.
You can read more in our latest Newsletter.
See lots more photographs in our Flickr albums by our Festival team. And on our Twitter feed. And some from the Waterstones Local Authors Party by Alastair Hilton.
- Ninth Chiswick Book Festival hailed as the best yet: ChiswickW4.com
- High praise for Young People’s Poetry Competition winners: ChiswickW4.com
- The Chiswick Book Festival – a quick impression on video from The Chiswick Calendar.
- Local Authors Evening at Waterstones – Chiswickbuzz.net
- An Evening With Jane Austen – video interview with The Chiswick Calendar
- Jeremy Vine:What I Learnt – video interview with The Chiswick Calendar
- A Feast of Fact and Fiction at the Chiswick Book Festival – video interview with Chiswickbuzz.net
The Festival’s Playful Books Quiz is now closed. Click here to see who won the prizes.
You can see the full programme here, day by day:
– Children’s Festival
– Pre-Festival events, Tuesday 12 and Wednesday 13 September
– Thursday 14 September
– Friday 15 September
– Saturday 16 September
– Sunday 17 September
– Monday 18 September
Book Valuations by Chiswick Auctions
On Festival Saturday, visitors could have their books valued by the experts at Chiswick Auctions.