Fired up by the success of last year’s inaugural event and with a full Soho wind in our tail, we are returning to the festival fray with our second Soho Lit Fest, to take place between 27th-30th September.



Early highlights to look out for include a star turn by Pam Ayres, another by Craig Brown, a third by Virginia Ironside; plus appearances by Prue Leith, being interviewed by her nephew Sam Leith; Colin Thubron being interviewed by Eland Books’ Barnaby Rogerson; the Oldie magazine’s Richard Ingrams discussing 20 years at the helm of one of the country’s favourite monthly reads; Channel 4 News reporter Lindsey Hilsum, talking on Libya; Ben Macintyre; and back by popular request, PD James and Ruth Rendell doing their Crime Hour. For the lighter of heart, there will be a Wine Quiz – do you know your Chablis from your Chardonnay? and one or two late-night cabaret acts.



All 38 festival events will take place in Dean Street’s Soho Theatre – an intimate venue in the heart of bohemian London. Below, just a few of last year’s contributors who with their combined literary wit, verve and flair, ensured that the festival is now a must in any cultured metropolite’s diary.