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Wells Festival of Literature
  • Festival Weekend Finale

    Online ticket sales close at 3pm today, so be sure to book before then to be sure of a seat….

    24 October 2025
  • Reliving Austen In True Style

    The 250th anniversary of novelist Jane Austen’s birth will be celebrated by two of her biggest fans on Saturday, the…

    21 October 2025
  • Personal Poems On Request

    Kit the Poet is packing up his portable typewriter and bringing it to the Festival where he will write poems…

    16 October 2025
  • Fine Food at the Festival

    Eight local eateries just a short walk from Cedars Hall are offering Discounted Dining for festivalgoers who book in advance….

    10 October 2025
  • Still time to book the Quiz

    Brainy bookworms have the chance to test their literary know-how at the Festival’s fun quiz night at Cedars Hall. Once…

    7 October 2025
  • Small boats, big Hearts

    We Came By Sea, by Horatio Clare, gives a different side to the small boats crisis from the one we…

    3 October 2025
  • Top award for Masud Husain

    Festival speaker, neurologist Masud Husain, has won the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize for his book Our Brains,…

    2 October 2025
  • justice for war crimes

    Will we ever see Vladimir Putin or Benjamin Netanyahu on trial, asks Steve Crawshaw in  Prosecuting the Powerful. As someone…

    26 September 2025
  • Pre-Festival orders at Waterstones

    Pop up to Waterstones in Wells High Street to pre-order copies of books by any of the speakers you look…

    24 September 2025
  • The Lost Girls of Autism

    Why is the history of autism male? This is a question asked by neuroscientist Gina Rippon whose eponymous book delves…

    23 September 2025
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