An A-Z of the speakers at the 7-14 September 2022 Chiswick Book Festival is here
2020 programme schedule, Day by Day
Streaming now: Festival Catchup
2020 Speakers included:
(see also Local Authors Evening)
Zoe Antoniades (Cally & Jimmy)
Xanthe Arvanitakis, director, Chiswick House & Gardens Trust
Lucy Barnard (Ruby and Graham)
Trevor Barnes (Dead Doubles)
David Berry (A People’s History of Tennis)
Rob Biddulph (Dog Gone),
Michael Billington (Harold Pinter),
Mihir Bose (The Nine Waves – the Extraordinary Story of Indian Cricket,
Emily Caston, (British Music Videos 1966-2016)
Diana Chandler (Only Human)
Mavis Cheek (Amenable Women)
John Collins, heritage manager, William Hogarth Trust
Amanda Craig (The Golden Rules)
Iain Dale (Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?)
Victoria Daskal, Mummy Wine Club
Antonia Fraser (Must you go?)
Loyd Grossman (An Elephant in Rome)
Clare Gough, director, Pitzhanger Manor
Ruth Heald (I Know Your Secret)
Peter Hennessy (Never Again; Having It So Good; Winds of Change)
Marianne Holmes (All Your Little Lies)
Konnie Huq (Cookie… and the Most Annoying Girl in the World),
Peter Hain (The Rhino Conspiracy)
Simon Hughes
Vicky Ireland, chair, Action for Children’s Arts
Christopher Joll (Spoils of War)
Christiane Kerr (Yoga Animals in the Forest)
Eleni Kyriacou (She Came To Stay)
Paul Lang (Secret Ealing)
Rosamund Lupton (Three Hours)
Hashi Mohamed (People Like Us)
Antonia Neumann (When Time Stopped)
Jonathan Oates (Secret Ealing)
Patricia and Jean Owtram (Codebreaking Sisters),
Martin Postle, Paul Mellon Centre
Nicole Prust (The Sloth and the Dinglewot)
Jo Pratt (The Flexible Family Cookbook),
Steve Richards (The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership)
Tim Richardson (Sissinghurst: The Dream Garden)
Martin Rowson, cartoonist
Joshua Seigal (Welcome to My Crazy Life)
Alexandra Shulman (Clothes… and other things that matter)
Oliver Soden (Michael Tippett: The Biography; Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat)
Polly Toynbee & David Walker (The Lost Decade: 2010 – 2020)
Christopher Tugendhat (A History of Britain Through Books 1900-1964)
Jeremy Vine (The Diver and the Lover)
Nicholas Young (Escaping with His Life: From Dunkirk to D-Day and Beyond).
Chairs included:
Richard Dikstra, Belle Media
Torin Douglas, director, Chiswick Book Festival
Lisa Evans
Phil Harding
Kay Hutchison, Belle Media
Alexander Matheour, British Red Cross
Fr Kevin Morris, vicar of St Michael & All Angels
Paddy O’Connell, R4 Broadcasting House
Bridget Osborne, The Chiswick Calendar
Kimberley Okoye, Chiswickbuzz
Simon Robertson
Anne Sebba
Rachel Schofield
Jacks Thomas, former director, London Book Fair
Fran Warde, Cookbook Kitchen