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Spring Season 2026
We are delighted to announce our 2026 Spring Season with a remarkable line up of exceptional
writers. As ever, the authors we have invited cover a huge range of subjects from animals, to
parental relationships, from autism and Nazism to geopolitics. We are exceptionally lucky to be
able to welcome to Painswick some of the country’s finest writers. There is something here for everyone.
Book early to avoid disappointment and help spread the word.
All events are at the Painswick Centre, Bisley Street, Painswick.
All profits to literacy charities.
Thu 05 FebThe Painswick CentreJay Griffiths is a widely respected writer whose work on wildness, childhood and protest have earned her huge admiration and affection over the last 25 years. We are delighted to be hosting Griffiths to discuss her new book, How Animals Heal Us which came out in 2025.
Thu 12 MarThe Painswick CentreKeggie Carew won the Costa Book Prize for this stunning memoir of her enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second World War in occupied France and Burma, in peacetime he lived off his wits and dazzling charm, but these were never enough to sustain a family.
Thu 07 MayThe Painswick CentreLocal author Alice Jolly’s new novel is a stunningly ambitious novel telling the story of a young girl’s battle for survival and the search for truth in Nazi Vienna.
Thu 04 JunThe Painswick CentreThe first comprehensive account of the geopolitics of climate change by Arthur Snell.
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