Welcome to Cuckfield Life’s Cuckfield Bookfest event page. Here you will find our most recent information for everything Bookfest.
As a community interest group, Bookfest relies on the generous support from sponsors, benefactors and friends to help them host brilliant writers and new talents every year.
See also, Cuckfield Bookfest
Cuckfield Bookfest 20206 is confirmed for 2nd-4th October.
Bookfest returns
This year’s festival is shaping up to be our most varied yet and the first event over the opening weekend is the supper held on Friday 2nd October at Ockenden Manor with Jeremy Hunt MP, whose latest book ‘Can We Be Rich Again?’ will be published in June. The former Chancellor of the Exchequer sets out a credible case for optimism in his book when it comes to the future of Britain’s economy.
Jane Rogoyska, author of Hotel Exile, Paris in the Shadow of War, joins us on Sunday. Her latest book tells the true story of how one Paris hotel came to hold the weight of a century. Hotel Lutetia on Paris’s Left Bank, was a meeting place for Europe’s bohemian artists, a headquarters of the Nazi occupation and a shelter for camp survivors.
We are also running a very special joint literary event alongside Hurst Festival on Wednesday 16th September, where best-selling author Zadie Smith will be at Holy Trinity Church in Hurstpierpoint discussing her historical novel, Fraud. Set against the real-life Victorian scandal of the Tichborne Claimant, the book spans literary London and Jamaica’s sugar-cane plantation. There are several references to local places including a chapter entitled Cuckfield Park, so there’s a very local connection.
Tickets to the event will be available in July on the Hurst Festival website www.hurstfestival.org
Bookfest tickets go on sale in August from: www.cuckfieldbookfest.co.uk
