The Chiswick Book Festival wouldn’t be possible without the hard work of our chairs, who’ve taken time out from their busy lives to read the books and prepare questions for authors that will get the best out of each session. Here are the faces you’ll see on stage on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 September along with links to details about their sessions. Sunday’s chairs can be seen here.
With Caroline Raphael, Jane Garvey & Rory Cellan Jones The Rise of the Podcast
With Peter Hanington & Greg Mosse Climate Change and Environment ‘Cli-fi’ Thrillers and with Jack Jewers Shakespeare’s 1st Folio: Six (Very) Short Films
With Chris Tarrant It’s Not a Proper Job: Stories from 50 Years in TV
With Harriet Evans & Lucy Atkins
Friends, Family and Fiction
With Tim Marshall The Future of Geography author on the Geopolitics of Space and with Laura Thompson The Execution of Edith Thompson
With Louise Minchin Fearless: Adventures with Extraordinary Women and with Peter Frankopan The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
With A.N. Wilson Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises
With Gelong Thubten A Monk’s Guide to Hard Times and Fearless Living
With Steve Jones & Rebecca Rogers Time Travelling Comic Crime
With Phyllis Logan Twice Upon a Time Podcast
With Twenty of Chiswick’s Top Writers Local Authors’ Showcase
With Nadiya Hussain Nadiya’s Simple Spices and with Eleanor Steafel Friday Night Food (and Drink!)
With Catherine Ashton & Simon McDonald A Life in Diplomacy
With Gavin Esler Britain Is Better Than This: Why a Great Country is Failing Us All
With Alex South & Ben Cave Inside Job: Lives Spent Working with Prisoners
With Tom Parfitt The High Caucasus: Travels in Russia’s High Mountains and with Jim Down Life in the Balance: A Doctor’s Stories of Intensive Care
With Paterson Joseph The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
With Ian Williams, Alan Philps & Gilbert Achcar Russia v China: Which is the Greater Threat?
With Alan Titchmarsh Chatsworth and Chiswick and with Fiona Davison Gardening’s Forgotten Feminists
With Pat Owtram Century Sisters: A Fairytale Childhood in the Shadow of War
Michael Frayn at 90 and with Jacqueline Wilson The Best Sleepover in the World, and Oliver Soden Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward