This year’s headline speaker is Joseph Coelho, 2024 Carnegie Medal Winner for Writing, who will be joined by authors and illustrators from the 2025 Carnegie longlists and shortlists.

The event will feature a dynamic daytime programme with free sessions for primary (AM) and secondary (PM) school groups, celebrating the power of books, reading and storytelling. The event is part of a continued partnership of CILIP with the Sedbergh Book Town Literary Trust, Sedbergh School, Sedbergh Prep School and Pen&Inc magazine.

Carnegies logo and text that reads Book Town takeover Sedbergh England's Book Town. To the right is a picture of Joseph Coelho