With just 400 attendees, this is an opportunity to join some of the world’s top thinkers within the seaside charm of Kardamyli in the Greek Peloponnese. The festival begins on Thursday evening with sunset drinks at Patrick Leigh Fermor’s House and ends with the fabulous Police Dog Hogan live at the festival site on Monday night.
The ancient Greeks invented the word' idea' and this festival, bosomed in the beauty of Hellas, is not only a brilliantly good idea, it is full of ideas and inspiration and joy." — Bettany Hughes
**TICKETS FOR THE 2025 FESTIVAL ARE NOW SOLD OUT**
Please contact Charlotte on charlotteheneage@hotmail.co.uk if you would like to be put on a waiting list.
*There are still tickets left for the 2 literary lunches – bookings will be closed on Monday September 15th. It will not be possible to attend either lunch without a ticket*.
The 2025 Kardamyli festival will run from Thursday 2nd October to Monday 6th October. As always, it will begin with a 6pm sunset drinks party on Thursday evening at Patrick Leigh Fermor’s house to welcome you all. This year, the festival will end with the fabulous Police Dog Hogan live in Kardamyli on Monday night.
Discover the full programme of speakers here.
We’re very much looking forward to welcoming you back to Kardamyli.
Charlotte and James Heneage
The David Nott Foundation
The year the festival will be supporting the David Nott Foundation, a humanitarian organisation dedicated to helping those who are injured in the many intractable conflicts raging across our world. David Nott, who will be speaking at the festival on Monday, has thirty years’ experience as a humanitarian surgeon on the front line and his experience has been distilled into a surgical training programme which equips doctors with the knowledge they need to manage a vast array of injuries faced in conflict, creating a global network of highly-trained healthcare workers who can also share that knowledge with their peers. There will be a stand at the festival with more information about the foundation and David and his wife Elly will be happy to answer any questions.
A glorious literary festival … inspiring, fun, devastatingly beautiful and immaculately organised.” — Andrea Wulf
The most appropriate and romantic place for a literary festival that I have ever stayed." — Tom Holland