Dear Festival Friends Happy February! We hope you’re keeping warm and enjoying some excellent winter reading time. Plans for the next Stroud Book Festival are already under way and we very much look forward to celebrating our 10th anniversary with you from 5-9 November 2025. To keep the festival spirit alive in the meantime, why…

Dear Festival Friends, Almost a year in the planning, Stroud Book Festival 2024 is now less than one week away. If you’re planning to be in Stroud town centre on the morning of Saturday 2nd November, come and say hello to the Festival team. We’ll be outside Stroud Bookshop, giving out brochures to anyone who…

Dear Festival Friends The anticipation is building! With Stroud Book Festival 2024 now less than two weeks away, we’d like to thank everyone who has bought tickets so far. Lots of people have been kind enough to tell us how much they are looking forward to this year’s Festival: we’re very much looking forward to…

Dear Festival Friends With the start of Stroud Book Festival 2024 a little under three weeks’ away, some events in our programme have now sold out. Although there is still time to book tickets for most events, we encourage you to buy soon to avoid disappointment. Copies of our printed brochure are available from venues…

Dear Festival Friends We hope by now you’ve had a chance to browse through our fabulous 2024 Stroud Book Festival brochure either in printed form or at stroudbookfestival.org.uk, and are looking forward to being part of our annual celebration of stories, ideas and community, starting in a little under four weeks’ time. If you’re still…

Stroud Book Festival is delighted to announce the two shortlists for the third annual Laurie Lee Prize for Writing. The winner in each category will be announced on Sunday 10th November at a free event on the final day of Stroud Book Festival 2024; reserve your place here. Their winning entries will also be published…

Dear Festival Friends It’s out! Your free copy of this year’s printed Stroud Book Festival brochure is now available to pick up from venues across Stroud including Stroud Bookshop, Stroud Sub Rooms, Lansdown Hall and Stroud Library. And with just under five weeks to go before the 2024 Festival begins, and with many of our…

From a distance (to quote the late great Texan songwriter Nanci Griffith) it would be easy to mistake Simon Parker as belonging to that peloton of travel writers for whom clocking up maximum miles is the thing. His first book, “Riding Out” charted a 3,427-mile cycle ride around Britain in 2020, while in 2016, for…

“There’s something extraordinary about hares that worked on my sense of myself and of the world in a very unexpected way.” With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, political advisor and foreign policy expert Chloe Dalton left London and returned to the rural northern location of her childhood summers, where she had recently converted a…

Dear Festival Friends We’re delighted to inform you that tickets for Stroud Book Festival 2024 are now on general sale. You can browse our 2024 programme on our website – stroudbookfestival.org.uk. You can then click through to buy your tickets online via thesubrooms.co.uk. You can also buy tickets by calling Stroud Sub Rooms on 01453…