Wimbledon BookFest

Dates: 15-17 March 2019 (various times) 

King’s College School & Southside House  

Wimbledon BookFest holds the inaugural Spring Weekend Festival in partnership with King’s College School. The Festival will feature a diverse programme of talks, interviews and debates featuring writers, commentators and acclaimed thinkers from politics, global affairs, education, philosophy and history. Speakers include businesswoman Gina Miller, poet Roger McGough, philosopher Julian Baggini, historian and broadcaster Lucy Worsley (pictured below) and writer and broadcaster Tim Marshall. Historian Peter Frankopan (pictured above top) will be discussing his latest book, the companion volume to his international bestseller ‘The Silk Roads: A New History of the World.’ The Festival is delighted to welcome novelists Sadie Jones, Andrew Miller and Fatima Bhutto (pictured above).

There will also be a debate on private education between Andrew Halls, Head Master of King’s College School, and social historians Francis Green and David Kynaston. Mar 15-17, to book tickets, go to wimbledonbookfest.org.