Dear Festival Friends,

And off we go! Tickets will go on sale tomorrow at 10am for all our 2026 Stroud Book Festival events.

Here’s how to book:

1. Choose your events via the Stroud Book Festival website (our printed brochure will be available to pick up from the Sub Rooms, Stroud bookshops and other venues around town next week.
2. For the majority of our events, you can book in one of the following ways:

• Online: thesubrooms.co.uk
• By phone: via the Sub Rooms Box Office, 01453 796880 (opening hours Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm)
• In person: at the Sub Rooms Box Office (opening hours as above)

Please check the individual event copy as tickets for a few of our events are being sold via other providers.

Some of our events sold out extremely quickly last year so we do urge you to book soon to avoid disappointment.

We hope very much that you’ve already earmarked plenty of events that you’d like to book but if you still need ideas we’ll be highlighting some of our favourites in this newsletter over the coming weeks.

We’ll also be posting regular updates on our social media platforms so if you are on social media, do make sure you are following us there.

“Rewild Your Reading” on Wednesday 4th November

This week, for all keen readers of Stroud and beyond we’d love to recommend “Rewild Your Reading”, our opening night event on Wednesday 4^th November which in this National Year of Reading aims to set the tone for a Stroud Book Festival of discovery, and of adventurous reading.

In collaboration with Read for Good, we’ll be joined by three expert readings, all of whom have thought and written about what it means to read deeply and widely.

Robert Douglas Fairhurst, professor of English Literature at Oxford and author of “Look Closer: How to Get More Out of Reading”, author Ann Morgan who has read at least one book from every nation on earth, and journalist Sarah Shaffi who is literary editor at Red magazine, will join Stroud Book Festival programme director Caroline Sanderson for a lively discussion designed to broaden all our reading horizons.

We guarantee you’ll take away a raft of reading recommendations! Tickets available here.

Whichever events you plan to book, we much look forward to welcoming you to Stroud Book Festival in November.

With love from

The Stroud Book Festival team x