August Update
Literary Quiz 2021
Literary Quiz 7.30pm for 8pm • The Queen's Hall Once again, a local book group has provided a fascinating selection of quiz questions for what is now the legendary Cuckfest literary quiz. Tables are for six people but no need to come in a group of six as we can...
August Newsletter 2021
Would you like to be our Friend? The first thing to ask is have you become a Friend of Cuckfield Book Festival yet? Please do consider it as you will be helping the festival enormously – we are non-profit making and rely on ticket sales and sponsorship to fund the...
June Newsletter 2021
Book Festival plans forge ahead It’s exciting that so many people are beginning to get out and about again and we have been really encouraged by the enthusiastic responses received from authors and publishers as we plan the programme for Cuckfield Bookfest 2021. Zoom...
March Newsletter 2021
Cuckfield Bookfest 2021 October 8th, 9th and 10th. During the long dreary months of lockdown in January and February we dreamed of being able to put on a live festival in October. Boris Johnson’s roadmap doesn’t reach as far as the autumn but there is a feeling...
A WEEK TO GO TO OUR FIRST ONLINE CUCKFEST
Perhaps you are reluctant to go out and about in these frustrating days when we have been asked to stay at home and avoid mixing with crowds. Despite enjoying Bookfest for the past three years, you have decided it isn’t for you in 2020. Well, now the festival is...
Festival Update
For so many people these past few months have been a time of huge anxiety and fear and we appreciate that to some, having a book festival is perhaps a low priority. But for others, we hope that the thought of a weekend of stimulating and live events is much needed to...
October Newsletter 2020
STOP PRESS! Here is an update on the programme and when tickets will be available. The programme will be on the website on Saturday 3rd October – www.cuckfieldbookfest.co.uk - where details of each event will be given via the What's On tab. To ensure that everyone has...
Literary Quiz
Friday 13th November 7.00pm Queen's Hall £7.50 per ticket to include a glass of wine Tables will be for six people and social distancing will be observed. If you are not part of a party of six, ticket allocation can ensure you join another group to make up a table.
September Newsletter 2020
Writing in The Spectator in August, Andrew Marr said: ‘I’ve been regretting the absence of the physical book festival not least because my own book Elizabethans comes out in October … I want to talk abut it relentlessly. Virtual conversations don’t have anything like...