The Festival is being launched with a season of films written by Harold Pinter at The Chiswick Cinema. At 7.30pm on Sunday June 30th it’s The Quiller Memorandum with George Segal and Senta Berger – book here.
To introduce the screening, Michael Billington will interview Natasha A Fraser, Harold Pinter’s stepdaughter, Paris-based journalist, film writer and author, in the presence of her mother Lady Antonia Fraser.
Harold Pinter wrote The Caretaker when he lived in Chiswick. Read more on our Chiswick Writers Trail and map and see why The Observer wrote ‘Chiswick may be Britain’s most literary location’.
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Get in the mood for this year’s Festival with some of the best moments from 2023, through the photographs below
Dame Jacqueline Wilson speaking to a large audience of children and parents in St Michael & All Angels Church
In September 2023, we brought together top authors and their readers for a feast of history, poetry, biography, creative writing, fiction, thrillers, food, wine, politics and children’s books. Read the Festival session reports at The Chiswick Calendar – Clive Myrie, the “undoubted star of the Festival”; Michael Frayn at 90; Chris Tarrant; Jess Phillips with Marcus Brigstocke;
Gavin Esler on Britain Is Better Than This; and Alan Titchmarsh and Rosie Fyles at Chiswick House.
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and of Alan Titchmarsh, Clive Myrie and other speakers here.
The Festival is a non-profit-making community event. Any financial surplus is donated to St Michael & All Angels Church, which runs the Festival, and three reading charities. Huge thanks to our venue, commercial and community Partners who are listed here.
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