Rewild Your Reading
Stuck in a reading rut? Keen to broaden your reading horizons? Then in this National Year of Reading, our 2026 Stroud Book Festival opening night event is one for you. We welcome three expert readers, all of whom are have thought and written about what it means to read deeply and widely. We guarantee you…
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The Stroud Book Festival Saturday Salon returns! Back for its third year, this relaxed gathering is staged to celebrate and support up-and-coming local writing talent. Join us at The Stroud Hotel for an afternoon of readings, talks and conversations from an eclectic selection of emerging Gloucestershire writers, who have been invited to share extracts from…
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