As part of TW Lit Fest 2025!

Please note the venue for this performance is in the Trinity Theatre.

Interviewed by Jessie Thomspon.

Bookish is Lucy Mangan's love letter to all those who come alive when they pull a new treasure off the shelf, stay up late reading just one more page and pack their suitcases with clothes wedged between books instead of the other way around.

Brimming with literary insights, wry observations and stellar recommendations, this book is an ode to the bookish places – from local libraries to bookstores big and small – and the stories that make us who we are.

Lucy Mangan is a journalist and columnist. She got a work experience placement at the Guardian in 2003 and hung around until they gave her a job. Lucy is now TV critic at the Guardian, and a columnist for The i newspaper. She has written for most of the major women's magazines, including Grazia, Cosmopolitan, and Stylist.

Jessie Thompson is the Arts Editor of The Independent, where she writes & commissions across the culture and lifestyle sections, and leads on coverage of books, theatre and visual arts. 

Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival 2025 is proudly sponsored by:

Part of Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival 2025. TW Literary Festival 2025 will be running from May 5th to 11th. More authors to be announced very soon!