Tickets go on sale for Cliveden Literary festival in September

Award-winning novelist Zadie Smith will join a line-up of dozens of novelists, historians and politicians who will speak at Cliveden Literary Festival this year,writes Jess Hurst.

Zadie Smith, known for her books White Teeth and Swing Time, will speak on stage, joined other prominent novelists including renowned author Maggie O’Farrell - notable for her recent literary works The Marriage Portrait, Hamnet and her autobiographical novel I am, I am, I am.

The festival will also have well-known historians such as Cambridge classics professor and well-known television personality Mary Beard, known for Pompeii and SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome -as well as Peter Frankopan, author of Silk Roads: A New History of the World and most recently The Earth Transformed.

Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and David Lammy, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, will also speak - as will Tristram Hunt, the former Labour MP, now director of Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

For the seventh year, the festival runs over two days from September 30 to October 1, continuing its revival of Cliveden House’s rich history as a literary salon.

Tickets for the event went on sale on Monday, July 31, costing £110-£120 for a single day ticket or £195 for a weekend ticket.

They can be found on sale atwww.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cliveden-literary-festival-tickets-667586478127?aff=oddtdtcreator