Faversham Literary Festival

Front cover paper of hardback book which has a stylised background of grey, green, yellow waves with an orange lifeboat riding the waves. At the top of the picture is the lighthouse, shacks and power station at Dungeness silhouetted in black. The name of the author is at the top Dominic Gregory and the title in large white letters Lifeboat at the End of the World. A Volunteers' Story.

Listened to Dominic Gregory talk about his book #LifeboatAtTheEndOfTheWorld as a volunteer with the @RNLI Dungeness @favlit.org

He received a standing ovation for his work & the crew as well as everyone who volunteers for the RNLI. Can’t wait to read the book.

#RNLIDungeness #SavingLives #Kent

This! 👇 #booklover #litfest 🤩🤩🤩

“Novels are machines of retrospection”-Ian McEwan

"There is a tremendous resilience to human culture, even as the death and horror stacks up behind us..." Ian McEwan looks into the future with Alex Preston at the last event of Faversham Literary Festival 2026. What We Can Know? #books #writers

Thanks so much to everyone who came to my event today at @favlit.org, we filled the chapel and made comics about fart cannons and a mad scientist called Albert Egg-stein. What a ridiculous/great day! 🍳
(Thanks to Jo for the pics and the talented artist whose comic I’m posting here!)

"I'm there to tell a moral story of the government" - whoever is in power. John Crace cracks up the house at Faversham with a Liz Truss story then explains why he is an equal opportunities lampooner. #politics

John Crace discusses 'The Bonfire of the Insanities' with Gavin Esler. A full house for topical political satire on (yet another) big news day. #books

FRANCIS SPUFFORD NONESUCH TOUR SPRING 2026 24 FEBRUARY - UEA, Norwich 26 FEBRUARY - Waterstones Piccadilly, London 28 FEBRUARY - Faversham Literary Festival 2 MARCH - Topping & Co Booksellers of Bath 4 MARCH - Village Books, Dulwich 5 MARCH - Topping & Co Booksellers of Edinburgh 6 MARCH - Topping & Co Booksellers of St Andrews 12 MARCH - Topping & Co Booksellers of Ely 13 MARCH - York Literature Festival 16 MARCH - Ketts Books, Wymondham 23 MARCH - Oxford Literary Festival 1 APRIL - West Kirby Bookshop 7 APRIL - Imperial War Museum 11 APRIL - Fishbourne Literary Festival

Really enjoyed listening to Francis Spufford talk about writing in general and Nonesuch in particular at @favlit.org yesterday

See him on tour if you can

Flower power!
Sarah Raven has a blooming packed church for 'A Year of Cut Flowers'. Likes the hyacinths that are already out in Faversham 🌷🏵🪻🌻🌹

Kenan Malik, ('Not So Black and White'), Yvonne Singh, author of ('Ink: From the Age of Empire to Black Power') and event chair Sarah Shaffi talk about how labels and divisive rhetoric create friction where people have actually have common interests - halting any chance of collective bargaining etc.

People up on their feet to applaud Dominic Gregory ('Lifeboat at the End of the World'), and the RNLI who have been single-mindedly saving lives at sea for centuries. #books

Dominic Gregory ('Lifeboat at the End of the World') makes the point that the law of the sea (you do your best to save people whoever/wherever they are) enabled communities in places like Kent to survive in harder seagoing times. #RNLI #books

What a venue - and what a queue! There's a massive line of excited little people tugging at parents' hands for Jamie Smart here in Faversham 😀 #comics

Kenan Malik and Yvonne Singh Today's pertinent issues around culture and privilege, race, inequality and class – and how the legacies and struggles of the past have shaped Britain’s present – are discussed with broadcaster and...

And now I’m off to @favlit.org to talk race, class, history and identity with @yvonnesingh.bsky.social and @sarahshaffi.bsky.social www.favershamliteraryfestival.org/2026/events/...

Don't mess with Velocity Press!
Emma Warren, Holly Dicker, Stef Macbeth. Dance #music, youth clubs and all the good grassroots culture stuff. #books

Really made up to meet my favourite author, Francis Spufford, at @favlit.org today. Absolute gent and I’m so looking forward to reading his latest, Nonesuch

Poet Harry Baker stands on a big open stage in a peach jumpsuit under a huge pic of a book with a peach on grrrr front and the title of Tender. A banner reads Faversham Literary Festival.

Tender is the (Saturday) night in Faversham. #Poetry from Harry Baker. '100 Poems for the First 100 Days of Life' is his celebration of fatherhood and all that entails.

Light at the end of the tunnel? "We evolved to tell better #stories to each other... we need to tell better stories...ditch the lousy ones..." Jeanette Winterson holds the Kent audience rapt. "We're not our CVs or the facts of our lives - we're more than that."

Youth clubs as incubators of talent, meeting spaces - and so much more with Emma Warren and Stef Macbeth. The hidden legacy of youth work and why these spaces matter. And a novel set against the 90s backdrop of DIY soundsystems #youthwork #dancemusic

As If! Another busy session, this time for Isabel Waidner at the Guildhall. #books

"I thought: 'How can I do something that is thrilling and can change the world?'" Jon King relates how he was inspired by #Situationism, at Leeds. Music, social history and much much more.

"I wrote this book to challenge the reader". What do we do when there is moral complexity? Do immigrants have to be perfect to be accepted? Stereotypes dehumanisine - whether good or bad. (Author and immigration solicitor Tawseef Khan at Faversham). #books

Dare we...?

A consistent theme in the books discussion by authors Anouchka Grose and then in a different session Tawseef Khan: being distracted (by work, by advertising etc) from really honestly thinking about the world we want to inhabit - and who we want to be in it. #books

Anouchka Grose shares how there's a whole other way to feel and be in the world - and it feels good. Embrace your 'freak' and have fun with it. #books #activism

The glorious Guildhall is all set for Tawseef Khan who has come from Manchester to talk about his novel 'Determination'. #books

Anouchka Grose brings the positive energy and gets ready in the school corridor to discuss 'The Revolution Will Be Internalised' with Anna Whitwham ('Soft Tissue Damage'). A timely book in a troubled world... 🌍

The Tsars have aligned, for Rasputin in the church...

Filling up nicely for Antony Beevor in St Mary of Charity.

Getting ready for a big crowd of excited kids🏃‍♀️🏃🏾‍♀️🏃‍♂️ (and parents) for @robbiddulph.bsky.social at the Queen Elizabeth school in historic Faversham💥. Yes, he's always a big *draw*. 😀😀😀😀

Why so glum? Unfortunately Mark Kermode was sold out last night at the literary festival and this guy couldn't get in to St Mary's. 🤷