Final event: We’ve added an extra ‘Chiswick Rocks’ walk on Sunday, with Blue Badge guide Guy Fairbank! Book tickets here.
The queue to watch Ben Macintyre talking to Charles Cumming at the 18th Chiswick Book Festival, 9-14 September 2026. The annual Chiswick Book Festival (chiswickbookfestival.net) is a non-profit-making community event, raising money for St Michael and All Angels Church, which hosts the event, and three charities.
Thanks for coming to this year’s Festival – and to all who helped make it such an entertaining and enlightening few days. Relive the 2026 Festival in Pictures.

Read full coverage by Bridget Osborne at The Chiswick Calendar, with photographs by Roger Green, including reports on Nick Clegg (and the person who ‘nearly decked’ him) , Dame Jacqueline Wilson, Fergal Keane, Georgina Moore, Iain Dale & Sarah Vine and all 20 of our Local Authors Showcase speakers.
Beloved best-selling children’s author Dame Jacqueline Wilson (l) returned to Chiswick to talk to former BBC arts correspondent Rebecca Jones (r) about her latest novel, Esme Pepper at the 18th Chiswick Book Festival, 9-14 September 2026.
Fergal Keane talking to Julian Worricker at the 18th Chiswick Book Festival, 9-14 September 2026.
Warning: A few authors still report receiving scam emails inviting them to take part in this year’s Festival. If you get one, please forward it to us at admin@chiswickbookfestival.net and report it to Gmail as ‘Pfishing’. We apologise for the inconvenience.
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