Oxfam Bookfest

The UK's largest community book festival

Now in its third year, the two–week festival will run from 2–17 July 2011 and will feature more than 400 local promotions and book-related events which will take place in Oxfam shops and other venues across the country.

The events will feature a host of authors, poets and celebrities, and activities for the whole family.

Oxfam Bookfest

Last year's Bookfest saw a huge boost in book sales in Oxfam shops and bookshops, and an extra 300,000 books donated to the shops. Oxfam hopes that this year's Bookfest will be even more of a success and will generate thousands of pounds in additional book sales for Oxfam over the summer. As well as raising money through book sales and donations for Oxfam's vital work, Bookfest celebrates the central role that books and reading play across lives and communities in the UK and beyond.

Book donations at the Hay Festival over the past two years have provided the equivalent of the stock needed to set up 5 new Oxfam book shops. An incredibly generous contribution to Oxfam's life-changing work. As a book lover, you can share the love by bringing along a volume (or two or three) to help Oxfam fill its donation container at this year's Hay Festival...

Book donations at the Hay Festival over the past two years have provided the equivalent of the stock needed to set up 5 new Oxfam book shops
Last year's Bookfest saw a huge boost in book sales in Oxfam shops