Lichfield Literature Festival

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Thu 27 Mar 2025 - Sun 30 Mar 2025

The written word will be celebrated in style in Staffordshire when the annual Lichfield Literature Festival makes a welcome return in March. The full programme for the festival has just been announced, with an A-list of authors lined up to entertain, excite and inform book lovers between 27 and 30 March 2025.

The packed four-day event includes broadcasting legend Simon Mayo who talks about his spellbinding new thriller Black Tag, Helen Lederer on being one of the few women at the heart of the 1980s alternative comedy scene, and art expert and BBC Fake or Fortunepresenter Bendor Grosvenor on the 'Invention of British Art’.



But the impressive list of festival guests is further enhanced by Sunday Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, who will be accompanied by her latest thriller The Summer Guests, and Gardeners' World television presenter and journalist Mark Lane, who will imagine the gardens of the future.

In addition, former Spectator magazine and Telegraph newspaper editor Charles Moore will discuss the final days of Margaret Thatcher’s political career on the 100th anniversary of the former British Prime Minister's birth.



‘Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers’ is the subject of Anne Somerset’s book, while a host of authors also discuss influential if less well-known, female figures in history from Catherine de’Medici (Mary Hollingsworth), to The Lost Queen: The Surprising Life of Catherine of Braganza (Sophie Shorland) and Kingmaker - Pamela Churchill Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction, power and intrigue (Sonia Purnell). In Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries, Sarah Gristwood brings together a treasury of over a hundred diarists through the centuries.

Throughout the weekend a wide variety of topics take in history, nature and mathematics, shipwreck discoveries, witch trials and the life and loves of James I. On the opening day, Mike Berners-Lee explores climate change in A Climate of Truth, and on the final afternoon, David Spiegelhalter considers how the principles of probability can help us navigate modern life in The Art of Uncertainty.



Damian Thantrey, Director of Lichfield Festival, says: “Lichfield is a city with a proud history of writers and great minds – each year, we hope that the Literature Festival pays tribute to this. Our audience for these four days is growing year on year, and we have an incredibly exciting line-up for this coming March. As always, we can’t do this without support and we’re incredibly grateful to our wonderful Principal Partner and Literature Festival sponsor, McArthurGlen West Midlands.”

Festival events take place throughout Lichfield, at The George Hotel, Hub at St Mary’s, Minster Hall and Wade Street Church.

Lichfield Literature Festival runs from 27-30 March. Tickets and details are available from www.lichfieldfestival.org or by phoning 01543 306271 (call-back service) or emailing [email protected]



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