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Hotels

Staying at Hotels Information

Oxford and the surrounding area is blessed with a number of fine hotels, so you can combine a visit to the Oxford Literary Festival with a relaxing break. Some of them offer special rates for festival-goers.

The Randolph Hotel, Oxford. The Festival Hotel

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Surround yourself in heritage and history at The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels. An Oxford landmark in the heart of the city, this iconic hotel takes inspiration from the prestigious Oxford University, with nods to college architecture and notable alumni.

Randolph Hotel contact details are:

Telephone: 0344 879 9132
Address: The Randolph Hotel, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2LN
Email: info@graduateoxford.co.uk
Website: www.graduatehotels.com/oxford-uk

College Rooms

There is no better way to experience the Oxford Literary Festival than to stay at one of the colleges. Double, twin and single rooms for this year’s festival are available via the Speedybookers college booking system.

Festival information:

Every literary festival stays in an author’s mind for slightly individual reasons. I shall remember the Oxford festival for: - the size of the audience: at the top end of the range - their intelligence – this makes a huge difference for a speaker. In the Oxford audience I encountered many experts in the field my book covered and even one of the ambassadors I’d quoted - the beauty and the grace of the place itself – incomparable - the willingness of my hearers to buy books afterwards; I’ve never sold more.

The Oxford Literary Festival is intellectual Viagra.

A stimulating and rewarding on-stage conversation; a lively informed and tolerant audience; privileged access to the great treasures of the Bodleian, and finally, wonderfully interesting dinner companions to help me conclude the best day I have enjoyed at any festival – anywhere.

It was a privilege for me to visit the festival to receive the Bodley Medal. As an incidental blessing I saw Oxford at its most mysterious and atmospheric. It was a day of piercing cold and as I walked through the twilight from the Sheldonian to Christ Church, the streets were empty and the whole city was shutting itself away. Christ Church was silent except for the footfall of unseen persons around corners and the sounds of evensong creeping from behind closed doors. For the first time I understood thoroughly the power of college ghost stories.

The Oxford Literary Festival has in my mind become the leading literary festival of the year. The organisation, the roster of speakers, the ambience and the sheer quality of it all is superb. May it now go from strength to strength each year stretching its ambition more and more. I believe it will.

Often as an author, I only occasionally get to meet the public who buy and read my books. The Oxford Literary Festival was a special opportunity for me and certainly one of the highlights of my career – it was an honour I will never forget.

I came away buzzing and reassured that we still have in this century a wide ranging community fascinated not just by famous authors (I’ve rarely seen so many concentrated in one place) but by challenging ideas and questions.

The Oxford festival is the most elegant and atmospheric of literary festivals. It’s a pleasure to both attend and perform there.

The Oxford Literary Festival sponsors, donors & partners

Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom

Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme

Supporter of programme of science and medicine and annual science and innovation award

Festival cultural partner

Festival ideas partner

Event generously supported by the Spanish Embassy

Event generously supported by Republic of Panama

Supporter of Italian programme

Festival London hotel partner

Festival literary heritage partner

Festival on-site and online bookseller

Sponsor of the festival crime fiction programme

Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture

CEO of Project People

Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture

Exeter College: college home of the festival

Worcester College

Lincoln College

St Cross College

Trinity College

Accountants to the festival

Wines of the Douro Valley

Prestige publishing partner

Partner of Jewish programme

Olive oil from Sicily

Local radio partner

Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design

Alumni Office

Oxford University Images

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