Folkestone Book Festival

Welcome to Creative Folkestone Book Festival 2024. From Thursday 14 to Sunday 24 November, our annual festival of books, ideas, writing and literature will return to  fill those gloomy winter months with conversation and debate.

Curated by award-winning author and journalist Sophie Haydock, the Creative Folkestone Book Festival returns bigger, better and brighter than ever.

Our guest speakers will cover an incredible range of topics that will cover everything from Comedy and Curiosity to Motherhood and Mayhem, Life and Loss to Rogues and Royalty, and everything in between. 

Some of the writers, authors and thinkers appearing at this year’s festival include Alan Hollinghurst, Ali Smith, David Nicholls, Donal Ryan, Elizabeth Macneal, Emma Gannon, Helen Lederer, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy Caldwell, Naomi Wood, Robin Ince, Rory Cellan-Jones, Tessa Hadley, Tracy Chevalier and many more to be announced.

Book your tickets and festival pass now.