Wanstead Book Festival

2024 will see the third Wanstead Book Festival, part of the Wanstead Fringe, and will take place from 7-28 September. Sign up to hear about the line-up here.

Here are some of our past highlights.

Helen Armstrong, author of East London’s Lost Palace
Tim Burrows, author of The Invention of Essex
Otto English, author of Fake history
Sohom Das, author of In Two Minds
Helen Day, historian of Ladybird books
Jonathan Coe, author of Bourneville
Justin Webb, author of The Gift of a Radio
Paterson Joseph, author of the Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
Ian Dunt, author of How Westminster Works and Why It Doesn’t
Patrick Marlowe with an evening of ghost stories
Ted Kessler, author of Paper Cuts

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