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BuckLitFive | Five days of literary wonder | 10-14 June 2020

16/06/2026

🎉 BuckLitFest starts on Thursday! 🎉

Nearly time to leave your garden and head over to the festival.

First up will be Prue Leith’s Dame Prue Leith sold out event at 12pm. Followed by Jeremy Hunt MP Jeremy Hunt at 6pm. He will exploring Britain’s economic future, all whilst keeping an eye on the Makerfield by-election!

As you arrive at the Buckingham Community Centre, look out for our fantastic window display, featuring:

📚The books that the wonderful authors will be discussing this week from Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 June
⏰Our programme of events
🍷A bottle of wine from Cavavin The Wine Shop who will be keeping the bar fully stocked with refreshments during the festival!

There’s still time to book your tickets and join us!

🗓 18-21 June
🎟️ Get your tickets from bucklitfest.org or using the link in our bio

14/06/2026

🪶Do you think children know what a typewriter is? Have they even seen one in action?

During our visit to 3Bs Radio a few weeks ago, there was a lively discussion around this as poet Emily Holtom will be joining us at to create bespoke poems live on a vintage typewriter.

Inspired by conversations, a word or a memory shared by festival-goers, you can watch a poem come to life there and then.

Each poem is a unique keepsake to take home and treasure.

Pop-Up Poetry offers a gentle pause within the festival – a chance to slow down, reflect and connect through words. Suitable for all ages.

🗓️ Saturday 20 June, 11.30am-2pm
📍 Vinson Centre, The University of Buckingham
🎟️ Pay as you feel, in person on the day.

13/06/2026

🗞️ Did you spot the in the Buckingham & Winslow Advertiser?

There are just 5 days to go until the festival begins. Book now to avoid disappointment!

Prue Leith, Elif Shafak and John Sergeant are sold out, but there are tickets for many other inspiring and insightful events.

🎟️Discover and book tickets for all our brilliant events at BuckLitFest.org

🗓️ 18-21 June 2026
📍 Buckingham, various locations

12/06/2026

There is still time to get your tickets for . If you love and , why not book tickets for some of these events:

Peter Fiennes, Friday 19 June, 3pm
Join Peter Fiennes for the ultimate literary tour of France. Drink with Sartre and de Beauvoir in the bars of Rouen; follow Edith Wharton’s ‘Motor-Flight’ along the Loire Valley to the home of George Sand; linger near Bordeaux with François Mauriac and join Colette in the trenches at Verdun. Journey from the coast of Normandy to the Côte d’Azur, along the banks of the Seine to the Alps.

An illustrated talk, followed by a conversation with Gladys Deleuze.

Sponsored by Alliance Française de Milton Keynes
www.afmk.co.uk

Daniel Swift, Saturday 20 June, 5pm
The remarkable untold story of ’s first theatre – the playhouse before the Globe by Daniel Swift. Through the life of this little-known playhouse, Daniel Swift tells the story of how Shakespeare became Shakespeare, and the Elizabethan stage began to flourish.

Dennis Duncan, Saturday 20 June, 6.30pm
Join Dennis Duncan for an illuminating journey through the quirks of book history, revealing how the smallest details transform how we read and understand the world.

Robin Ince, Saturday 20 June, 8pm
Join us for a warm, funny and thoughtful evening in the company of one of Britain’s best-loved champions of curiosity. Robin will be sharing from his new poetry collection. These instinctual poems come from the deepest part of a neurodivergent heart. They consider the sadness of being alone, but also the happiness of finding people who empower you.

Emily Holtom, Saturday 20 June, 11.30am-2pm
Share a word or a memory and watch a poem come to life. Poet Emily Holtom will be creating bespoke poems live on a vintage typewriter, inspired by festival-goers. Each poem is a unique keepsake to take home and treasure. Pay as you feel, in person on the day

📍 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

11/06/2026

🥂 Just one week to go!

Jean-François Bisault and the team at Buckingham Cavavin The Wine Shop, Buckingham's renowned independent wine shop, are making sure that the Festival bar is fully stocked ready for !

🗓️ 18-21 June
👉Tickets & full programme via link in bio or at bucklitfest.org

10/06/2026

There is still time to get tickets for . If you love and , here are three events which are perfect for you!

Daisy Dixon, Saturday 20 June, 11.30am
A provocative re-examining of the story of art through the most contentious works ever produced. Depraved shows how these creations - and our reactions to them - reveal the darkest corners of the human psyche.

An illustrated talk, followed by a conversation with Suzi Feay.

Hannah French, Sunday 21 June, 10.30am
Broadcaster and musicologist Dr Hannah French embraces the art of listening seasonally in her exploration of Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’. By examining his personal and creative life and speaking with a vast array of experts, she brings a new perspective to the music and the evolving seasons. In conversation with Simon Toyne, one of the country’s leading music educators and choral conductors.

In partnership with Buckingham Music Festival 13 to 18 July 2026.
www.buckinghammusicfestival.org

Live Jazz, Saturday 20 June, 12.30-2pm
Enjoy lunchtime jazz with the Jez Cook trio between events.

📍 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

09/06/2026

Life-changing lessons on recovery learnt through a life working in disaster from the UK's top emergency planner, Lucy Easthope.

Through poignant stories and hard-won wisdom, Lucy offers a roadmap for resilience in the face of adversity. She explains what shape the recovery journey might take, how to triage your life, how to plan for 'the slump' (also known as the lasagne phase), and what good (and bad) help looks like.

This is a book and an event for all of us who want not just to survive, but to live and unleash strengths we never knew we had.

Lucy will be appearing with former BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones. They will be in conversation with Fiona Lindsay.

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

08/06/2026

Grab your bean bag for a morning of exciting stories and lots of fun at children’s event on Sunday 21 June, 10.30am, with two authors!

Join Steve Cole as he blasts us off on an Astrosaurs adventure. Then after a quick juice and snack break, take a walk on the wild side with Teresa Heapy new book The Heart of the Storm, with Ruby the fox and Growl the wolf.

Great for the whole family and children aged 5 to 11 years old.

📍 Vinson Centre
🎟️ Book at buckliffest.org

Over at the Buckingham Library on Saturday 20 June at 2pm, there is another children’s event with and illustrator Denise Marsh, who will be introducing children to The Knitterwitches with storytelling and activities.

📍 Buckingham Library
🎟️ Book your free tickets by emailing
[email protected]

Suitable for ages up to 10 years with parental supervision.

Only 30 places available.

07/06/2026

With only 11 days to go, our volunteers are still busily working behind the scenes to get everything ready to welcome:

✅Well-known and up-and-coming authors
✅Expert interviewers
✅YOU!

All the volunteers have been working hard for months (helped along with a glass or two of wine!) to offer an exciting programme of events. You can meet some of our wonderful volunteers next Saturday outside Waitrose.

Join us at the festival by booking your tickets at bucklitfest.org.

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

06/06/2026

If you are a deep thinker, who loves and , dive into one of our events during the :

Tom Hodgkinson, Saturday 20 June, 5pm
Discover the surprising truth of how Stoicism can help you feel happier and more fulfilled. Delve into the strange and radical world of the Stoics with Tom Hodgkinson, the bestselling author of How to Be Idle. In conversation with Anthony Wallersteiner, Headmaster of Stowe School.

Paul Dolan, Saturday 20 June, 6.30pm
An accessible, original and definitive examination of the psychology behind why we become polarised - and how to better accommodate opposing points of view from behavioural scientist Professor Paul Dolan.

Robin Ince, Saturday 20 June, 8pm
During his poetry event, Robin Ince will also be sharing stories from the paperback of his powerful, personal exploration of anxiety, ADHD and neurodiversity, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal. It reminds us all – no matter how weird we feel – that it’s okay to be a little different. We all are.

Lucy Easthope, Sunday 21 June, 10.30am
Disaster expert Lucy Easthope shows you the path out of crisis. Come What May is for all of us who want not just to survive, but to live and unleash strengths we never knew we had. Speaking alongside Rory Cellan‑Jones.

📍 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.

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