Access all areas. The Festival Pass gives you access to all Winter Festival Online events.

Valid until 29 November, the Festival Pass allows you to watch all events as they are released and throughout the week.

You can only purchase one pass per person. Access to all events will be via links available nearer the time in My Account.

Calling all book lovers – put your book down, the kettle on and settle in for a literary love-in of the most indulgent kind. 

Lara Feigel has given The Group a makeover and Amanda Craig has taken the premise of Strangers on a Train and made it her own in The Golden Rule. A fascinating discussion where they reflect on the process of writing.

LBC writer and broadcaster James O’Brien, well-known for his forensic interview style, is in the hot seat questioned by David Runciman for this special recording.

Come and see what hope looks like and hear about the extraordinary life of Dara McAnulty, winner of The Wainwright Prize, longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and a truly remarkable writer.

In conversation with Robert Macfarlane, academic, best-selling nature writer and Honorary Festival Patron

We’re privileged to be hosting the launch of a new and visionary home for poetry – Hazel Press. With poetry from Sean Borodale, Ella Duffy, Matthew Hollis, and Anna Selby. With thanks to Daphne Astor and Hazel Press.

An unmissable encounter between two outstanding poets who have each been honored with the Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry. 

After decades spent observing birds, Esther Woolfson now turns her gimlet eye to reflect more broadly on the relationship between humans and animals and how we, the humans that is, don’t always come out covered in glory.

Join prize-winning author and journalist Madeleine Bunting to hear why she believes we need a radical reassessment of the many vital forms of care on which we all depend.  

What is race science and why has it seen a resurgence in recent years? How do we better understand the ways in which racism is perpetuated? 

What is the best way to live? Matt Haig discusses this fresh and life-affirming new novel.

Vesper Flights confirms Helen Macdonald as one of this century’s greatest nature writers.

A story about race, immigration and education, and a story about a mother, her family, music and love.