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Robert Macfarlane
Join bestselling nature writer Robert Macfarlane for a deeply personal, political and provocative journey that will invite us to radically reimagine both rivers and life itself. Inspired by the activists, artists and lawmakers of the young ‘Rights of Nature’ movement, Macfarlane talks to Julia Wheeler about the past, present and futures of this ancient, urgent concept.
Michael Palin
Intrepid globetrotter Sir Michael Palin, star of Monty Python and many acclaimed travel documentaries, in 2025 travelled to Venezuela to get a sense of what life is like in one of South America's most culturally rich, vibrant but also troubled nations. In his latest book he captures with characteristic warmth and humour a vivid account of the places he visited, the landscapes he travelled through and the people he met.
Sarah Raven
Queen of cut flowers Sarah Raven shares with Julia Wheeler everything you could possibly wish to know about planning, growing and arranging your own cutting garden, as explored in vivid detail in her new book A Year of Cut Flowers, which reveals the secrets she has evolved over decades at Perch Hill to keep an exciting variety of cut flower production nearly constant, from the start of the growing year to the end.
Ian McEwan
To close this year’s festival we are delighted to welcome the masterful Ian McEwan to talk about his new novel, What We Can Know. A quest, a literary thriller and a love story, the novel moves between the present day and a climate-ravaged future – a masterpiece that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost. In conversation with author Alex Preston.
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