Illustration of a goat reading a blue book titled 'Ticehurst Literary Festival', surrounded by various colorful flowers, butterflies, and a bee.

24-26 April 2026

Friday 24th

Claire Adam
Love Forms

7pm

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, Claire Adam’s latest novel, Love Forms, is an evocative tale of love and loss. A mother must give up her baby in a cloud of shame and secrecy. After forty years, a woman gets in touch — could she be her long-lost daughter?

Claire Adam’s first novel, Golden Child, won the Desmond Elliott Prize, the McKitterick Prize, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and was named one of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels that Changed the World’.

Saturday 25th

Adam Weymouth
Lone Wolf

12pm

With burning curiosity for the wild, Adam Weymouth walks the trail of a pioneering wolf, examining the challenges along Europe’s ‘faultlines’: migration, intolerance, climate change. Lone Wolf was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and serialised on BBC Radio 4.

Adam Weymouth's first book, Kings of the Yukon, won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year and the Prix Paul-Emile Victor. The National Writing Centre names him as one of ten writers shaping the UK’s future. His writing is widely published, including in GrantaThe AtlanticThe Observer and the BBC.


Fran Fabriczki
Porcupines

2.30pm

Fran Fabriczki’s witty debut is named by Vogue among the top reads of 2026. Porcupines is a sharp and funny mother-daughter story set in LA with roots in Soviet Hungary. Published this April, the novel is already reviewed as ‘an instant classic’. Fran Fabriczki’s writing has won the Curtis Brown Award.


Andrew Lownie
Entitled

5pm

The explosive biography of Andrew-Mountbatten Windsor, by the renowned author and journalist Andrew Lownie, delves deeper into the former prince’s links with Jeffrey Epstein. Entitled is ‘devastating’ say The Times and The Independent.

Andrew Lownie’s books include the prize-winning Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess, and the top ten Sunday Times bestsellers The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves and Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

Sunday 26th

Children’s Author ~ TBC
Sunday Morning


Chris van Tulleken
Ultra-Processed People

12.45pm

One of the BBC’s leading broadcasters, Doctor Chris van Tulleken is also a Professor of Global Health. His Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Ultra-Processed People reveals everything the food industry doesn’t want you to know: what ultra-processed food is really doing to our bodies and minds.

Chris van Tulleken works with UNICEF and the World Health Organization on nutrition and the global food system. His broadcasting has won two BAFTAs.


Seth Insua
Human, Animal

3pm 

Seth Insua’s moving debut about a conflicted farming family's struggle is shortlisted for the Discover Award in this year’s British Book Awards. A father-son tale of generational tensions, Human, Animal is a delicious ode to country life.

Human, Animal was featured on BBC Radio 2.