Buckingham Literary Festival

Name: Buckingham Literary Festival
Address: Hunter Street, Buckingham, MK181EG, GB
Telephone: +441280820365
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BuckLitFive | Five days of literary wonder | 10-14 June 2020

04/06/2026

Two weeks to go until the !

Tickets are going fast with Prue Leith, Elif Shafak and Shakespeare in the Garden sold out.

Make sure you don’t miss out, get your ticket now on our website www.bucklitfest.org.

🎟 Tickets from just £10.00

Alternatively you can buy tickets in-person from The University of Buckingham Bookshop Hunter Street, MK18 1EG and Buckingham Old Gaol, Market Hill, MK18 1JX 📚

Please check opening hours on their websites.

🗓 18-21 June
📍 Buckingham

Buckingham Tourist Information Centre

03/06/2026

If you love and , then join us in just 2 weeks for four fascinating events:

Prue Leith , Thursday 18 June, 12pm
Chef, author, businesswoman, campaigner, educator, and television host. Prue will speak with refreshing honesty about life as a modern woman in her eighties.

Robin Lustig , Saturday 20 June, 11.30am
The death of his mother found Robin Lustig drawn back into the tangled history of his German-Jewish family. Both a personal memoir and a moving family chronicle, Robin shows how one family’s journey can illuminate the universal struggle to survive, remember, and belong.

Rory Cellan-Jones , Sunday 21 June, 10.30am
Former BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan‑Jones’s Sophie From Romania tells the heartfelt story of adopting a traumatised rescue dog, intertwining her journey toward trust and healing with his own experience of living with Parkinson’s.

Andy Wilman .wilman, Sunday 21 June, 12pm
TV producer Andy Wilman shares 20 years of motoring magic and mayhem producing Top Gear and The Grand Tour. The mysterious man in the shadows, opens the bonnet with a tale as irreverent, joyful and laugh-out-loud funny as the shows themselves.

📍 Buckingham, various locations
🎟️ Get your tickets and discover all the great events that are on during the festival at bucklitfest.org or using the link in our bio

02/06/2026

Discover what connects bling and designer handbags to global money laundering with Oliver Bullough, one of Britain’s leading investigative journalists, in this wide-ranging exposé of the dark financial secrets at the heart of the world economy.

🗓️ Friday 19 June 2026, 6pm
📍 Buckingham Community Centre
🎟️ Get your tickets from bucklitfest.org

01/06/2026

If you love , then join us in just 2 weeks for four excellent events:

Simon Jenkins, Friday 19 June, 4.30pm
With his trademark clarity, Simon Jenkins unpacks the United States’ contradictions, characters and seismic events, offering a fresh insight into America’s identity and its future in a divided world.

Sponsored by Postscript Books
https://www.psbooks.co.uk/

Saul David, Saturday 20 June, 2pm
Told from the perspective of all the combatants, Saul David blends grand strategy with vivid soldier stories to bring to life the drama and heroism of the campaign, which ended Axis sea power in the Mediterranean.

Alison Weir, Saturday 20 June, 3.30pm
Bestselling historian Alison Weir’s spellbinding new novel explores the life of Kate Carey, who attends her aunt, Queen Anne Boleyn, to the scaffold, and serves her cousin, the future Elizabeth I. But the Boleyns hide a life-shattering secret...

Sinclair McKay, Saturday 20 June, 3.30pm
Cultural historian Sinclair McKay blows apart the stereotype of charming incompetence to reveal the true story of Britain’s Home Guard, and how they were trained to defend every corner of the kingdom from Hitler’s forces.

📍 Buckingham, various locations
🎟️Get your tickets and discover all the great events that are on during the festival at bucklitfest.org or using the link in our bio

31/05/2026

Our wonderful volunteers have been painting (and beyond) pink!

Here are they are sharing just some of the events and books they are looking forward to between busily distributing programmes and decorating shop windows with colourful posters for .

They’ve been outside Waitrose & Partners this weekend and will be next weekend! Pop by to say hello.

See the full programme and book tickets using the link in our bio or at bucklitfest.org. We look forward to seeing you!

🗓️ 18-21 June
🎟️ Tickets & full programme via link in bio

30/05/2026

What better way to spend a Saturday night than with Robin Ince Robin Ince

Grab a pint – or your beverage of choice!* – and settle in for an evening of poetry from Robin’s latest collection, alongside stories from the paperback edition of Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal.

Warm, witty and wonderfully thoughtful, it’s the perfect way to round off a fantastic day at .

🗓️ Saturday 20 June, 8pm
📍 Vinson Centre, The University of Buckingham
🎟️ Tickets available from bucklitfest.org

*A range of drinks will be available to buy from the LitFest bar!

Pan Macmillan

29/05/2026

📖Join Dennis Duncan as he takes us on a journey through the delightful history of the wonders to be found in the humble book index.

Perfect for book lovers!

🗓️ Saturday 20 June, 6.30pm
📍 Vinson Centre, University of Buckingham
🎟️ Tickets available from bucklitfest.org or via the link in our bio.

28/05/2026

Three weeks to go!

Have you got your tickets yet? We have a book (and an event) for everyone:

✨ Prue Leith will be discussing her new book, Being Old and Learning to Love It! The closest thing to a memoir she will write.
🎵 BBC Radio 3 presenter Dr Hannah French explores Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons in The Rolling Year.
🎨 Daisy Dixon offers a provocative re-examination of the story of art through the most contentious works ever produced.
💭 Tom Hodgkinson’s witty and enlightening book shows us How to Live Like a Stoic.
🚗 Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure is a rollicking, rowdy and hilarious memoir of Top Gear and The Grand Tour from the elusive man behind the camera Andy Wilman.
📚 And the Cello Came Too by Robin Lustig is a family chronicle spanning centuries of Jewish life in Europe, its near-destruction under the N***s and its slow rebirth in the years after the Second World War, as well as being a personal memoir.
🔥 Beliefism by Paul Dolan is an accessible, original and definitive examination of the psychology behind why we become polarised - and how to better accommodate opposing points of view.
💵 Everybody Loves Our Dollars by Oliver Bullough is a wide-ranging exposé of global money laundering - and the dark financial secrets at the heart of the world economy - from one of Britain’s leading investigative journalists.
📖Discover life-changing lessons on recovery learnt through a life working in disaster, from the UK’s top emergency planner, Lucy Easthope, in Come What May.
🏠Dad’s Army is the remarkable story of the Home Guard from Sinclair McKay, the bestselling historian of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park.
🐺Teresa Heapy shares her wonderful new children’s picture book, The Heart of the Storm.
⏳Tunisgrad by Saul David is The Sunday Times bestselling author’s gripping new history about World War II campaigns in Africa.

Plus so much more! Don’t miss out.

🗓️ 18-21 June 2026
📍 Buckingham, various locations
🎟️ Buy your tickets at bucklitfest.org.

27/05/2026

Embrace the art of listening seasonally with BBC Radio 3 presenter Dr Hannah French as she explores Antonio Vivaldi's evergreen work: The Four Seasons.

Discover how Vivaldi’s iconic violin concerto, published 300 years ago, continues to reveal new truths for listeners today and uncover details of Vivaldi's personal and creative life.

Join Hannah as she examines the concerto through the lens of:
❤️ Health
🌱 Nature
🍽️ Food
🍷 Wine
🧪 Science

To bring new perspective to the music and the evolving seasons.

In conversation with Simon Toyne

Sponsored by Buckingham Music Festival
www.buckinghammusicfestival.org

🗓️ Sunday 21 June, 10.30am
📍 The Radcliffe Centre, University of Buckingham
🎟️ Tickets available from bucklitfest.org or via the link in our bio.

Faber Books

26/05/2026

At some point, we will all experience pain, uncertainty and loss. How can we weather the storms and cope with whatever comes next?

Join Lucy Easthope and Rory Cellan‑Jones as they share their invaluable knowledge of resilience, love, loss and joyfulness.

📖 Lucy Easthope is a professor in practice and an international adviser on disaster recovery. In Come What May, she distils what she’s learned about how to carry on during and after terrible times.

🐶 Former BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan‑Jones’s book, Sophie From Romania, tells the heartfelt story of adopting a traumatised rescue dog, intertwining her journey toward trust and healing with his own experience of living with Parkinson’s.

In conversation with Fiona Lindsay

🗓️ Sunday 21 June, 10.30am
📍 Vinson Centre, University of Buckingham
🎟️ Tickets available from bucklitfest.org or via the link in our bio.

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Hunter Street
Buckingham
MK181EG

Telephone

+441280820365

Website

http://bucklitfest.org/

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