Wimbledon BookFest reaches biggest audience since London festival was founded

The event’s bookseller Waterstones reported a 92% boost in development in book sales at the collection of events which concluded on Sunday 27th October and happened at Merton Arts Space at Wimbledon Library.

Discussing the success of this month’s celebration, she included: “Book events, like the majority of arts field models, need sponsors and philanthropy to function, and we are actively seeking sponsorship from firms that see the value of literary works and tales in our social lives. Our Education Programme was a real emphasize this year and we are thrilled that the University of Roehampton continues to sustain our work, including our colleges programme, to make sure that we can create our vital, life-enhancing collaborate with children and youths.”

Fiona Razvi, celebration creator and supervisor, claimed: “In what has actually been an incredibly challenging year for publication events with the withdrawal of crucial sponsorship, it is so encouraging to see the target market hunger just expanding for the cumulative sharing of stories. This year we saw a change in audience participation with almost half of our audience being first-time visitors.”

Razvi included: “Currently in our 2nd year, dealing with Merton collections and the Lahore Literary Celebration, we are seeing a shift in the demographic of our target markets, which is vital to being a celebration that offers its area.”

This year’s highlights consisted of a series of author occasions headlined by Tim Peake, Joseph Coelho, Jeffrey Boakye and United States Wonder and YA writer Samira Ahmed; and the yearly Young Writers Competitors which saw entries from 5,100 students from 51 south London key and second schools.