Buckingham Literary Festival 2025   www.bucklitfest.org


MAKE A NOTE IN YOUR DIARY FOR THE WEEKEND OF 13-15 JUNE 2025 WHEN THE BLF TEAM WILL BRING YOU ANOTHER WIDE RANGE OF EXCITING AUTHORS AND EVENTS



Buckingham Literary Festival 2024   www.bucklitfest.org


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Buckingham Literary Festival 2023   www.bucklitfest.org



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Edward Stourton, Alison Weir, John Lewis-Stempel, Sam Fowles, Will Gompertz, Emma Smith, Flora Fraser, Iain Dale, Jonathan Sumption, Yaw Asiyama, Christina Lamb, Kenan Malik


To celebrate the story of The Buckingham Literary Festival and the wonderful authors who have come over the years Gino has been visually documenting the festival. This year an exhibition of the drawings and paintings he made will be shown in an exhibition "A Visual Diary" in The Vinson Building, University of Buckingham between 16th and 18th June   


The Literary Festival also presents in the Vinson Building Gino's installation "Resurrection" creating a conversation and collaboration with Buckingham Parish Church where Gino's exhibition of paintings "The Thunder Speaks" is on, in the Chancel at Buckingham Parish Church, St Peter and St Paul, Buckingham, June 15th - 30th June.

"A Visual Diary"


Gino Ballantyne


The Buckingham Literary Festival


The Vinson Building

University of Buckingham


16th - 18th June

2023 Buckingham Literary Festival 

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presents 

in collaboration with


Buckingham Parish Church


"Resurrection"

an installation


in conversation with


the exhibition


"The Thunder Speaks"

16th - 30th June

The Chancel

St Peter and St Paul

Buckingham Parish Church


Buckingham Literary Festival                                        Buckingham Parish Church

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    Louis De Bernieres

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View Buckingham Literary Festival Visual Diary

A visual Diary of the Festival containing a selection of drawings by Gino was published in November 2020 to recognise the festivals enormous acheivements before its temporary closure due to the Covid pandemic.

2022 Authors


Alison Weir, Cath Howe, Christina Lamb, Ed Stourton, Emma Smith, Flora Fraser, Flora Rees Harry Baker, Iain Daie, John Lewis-Stempel, Jonathan Sumption, Kenan Malik, Matt Stadlen, Mini Grey, Sam Fowles, Vanessa Horton, Violet Moller, Will Gompertz, Will Shakespeare, Yaw Asiyama, Gino Ballantyne


The Waste Land - A Collapsing World


Faber celebrates the centenary of The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. Originally published in 1922, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation. To mark the centenary in 2022, Faber invites artistic responses. To mark the occasion artist Gino Ballantyne has produced a selection of events, exhibitions and two publications of Eliot’s poem creating a dialogue between Eliot’s world in 1922 and Gino’s world today. 


A digital book published at The Buckingham Literary Festival 2022. The digital book serves as both an introduction and translator to Gino's one-of-a-kind illustrated artist’s book subsequently released on the same date as TS Eliot's book edition by Boni and Liveright published in December 1922. 


This artist’s book is a network of communication combining drawn images, abstracted soundscapes and textual, binary, hexadecimal languages. The Waste Land and the Collapsing World by Gino seek the universal meaning of life, in a fragmented world where time and civilisation are collapsible.


During the festival Gino installed an interactive exhibition in The Vinson Building at Buckingham University, June 2022. Gino created an interactive Binary Wall in collaboration with the School of Computing led by Professor Harin Sellahewa, Dean of Computing at Buckingham University. ‘A powerful visual response to Eliot’s poem, Gino explores a collapsing world where our habits and notions of identity, reality and truth symbolise our disconnect with civilisation, the natural world and human consciousness.’ Vivienne Wordley.

2019 Authors


Adrian Wooldridge, Alison Baverstock, Annabel Leventon, Annabelle Dowler, Charles Cumming, Charles Ellingworth, Christopher lee, Conn Iggulden, Elif Shafak, Euan Cameron, Fanny Blake, Filipe Fernandez-Armesto, Georgina Godwin, Gilly Tomkins / Gangsta Granny, Harry Baker, Jane Wenham-Jones, Julie Summers, Kathy Slack, Leslie Cavendish, Local Authors Hub, Louis De Bernieres, Luke Jennings, Maggie Gee, Mathew Stadlen, Nick Hewer, Omar Meziane, Sir Anthony Seldon, Sunny Ormonde, Susannah Stapleton,Terry Waite, The Archers, Victoria Hislop, Violet Moller 


Castle Theatre Company, Old Mill House, Maids Moreton


2018 Authors


Frederick Forsyth, Rebecca Fraser, Tim Marshall, Edward Stourton, Tom Bower, Jasper Winn, Anthony Seldon, William Sitwell, Natasha O'Hear & Anthony O'Hear, Antonia Fraser, Ben Okri, Mark Billingham, Belinda Bauer, John Dougherty, Chris Patten, John Bercow, Craig Brown, Andrew Adonis, Keri Davies, Timothy Bentinck, Jane Wenham-Jones, Blanche Girouard, Griselda Heppel, Mark Lawson, MG Leonard, Frances Welch, Emma Byrne, Castle Theatre Company.

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Castle Theatre Company, Love's Labour's Lost, Old Mill HouseMaids Moreton

2017 Authors



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