The Cliveden Literary Festival (from Saturday 30 September to Sunday 1 October) has revealed early highlights from this year’s programme, with speakers including Zadie Smith, Tom Holland, Mary Beard and Maggie O’Farrell.

Taking place at the historic Cliveden House in Berkshire, Cliveden Literary Festival was last year described by Succession’s Brian Cox as ‘[an] extraordinary environment… I can’t think of anything more perfect’ and author Robert Harris as ‘beautiful… like a rolling intellectual house party to which everyone is invited’.

Now in its seventh year, the festival revives Cliveden House’s rich history as a literary salon frequented by writers and thinkers from Alexander Pope to Alfred Lord Tennyson, George Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Swift and Sir Winston Churchill.

For more information and tickets visit www.clivedenliteraryfestival.org