Whilst the full line-up of the 15th LitFest will be announced in a couple of weeks – at the full programme launch on Wednesday 26 June – the presence three more authors have just been confirmed.
Kate Mosse, William Dalrymple and Eleanor Mills will join Sarah Perry, Robert Peston, Martin Sixsmith, Celia Imrie, Robert Hardman, Zeinab Badawi and LitFest Patron Sir Simon Russell Beale at this year’s festival which runs between 26 – 29 September.
There’s lots happening already. It’s the final call for this year’s Love Books competition, now in its fifth year. Entrants can explain their choice of a favourite book, poem or play by a written response of up to 750 words, with winners in each of the three age categories winning £300 and runners-up each winning £100. Entries can be made on the LitFest website (www.marlboroughlitfest.org) through the Love Books link. The closing deadline for entries is Friday 28 June.
The award-winning writer Kate Mosse returns to LitFest to give us all a preview of her fourth and concluding novel in The Joubert Family Chronicles, The Map of Bones, which will be published on 10 October. The author of ten novels and short-story collections, including the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy (Labyrinth, Sepulchre, Citadel), her books have been translated into 38 languages and published in more than 40 countries. Mosse is also the founder of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and, more recently, the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. She will be appearing at LitFest on Saturday 28 September.
Bestselling author, historian, broadcaster and co-host of the chart-topping Empire podcast, William Dalrymple comes to Marlborough in September to talk about his new book, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World. Drawing from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India’s often forgotten position at the heart of ancient Eurasia, Dalrymple discusses how India transformed the culture and technology of its ancient world and impacted the world today. Dalrymple will be appearing at LitFest on Saturday 28 September.
Much More to Come by journalist and broadcaster Eleanor Mills provides an empowering guide for midlife women, offering inspiration and a blueprint for navigating the rollercoaster of what she calls women’s ‘Queenager years’. Mills worked at The Sunday Times for 23 years, latterly as editorial director, and she will be appearing at LitFest on Sunday 29 September.
For more information and regular 2024 festival programme updates, see www.marlboroughlitfest.org.
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David Kinnaird – Liberal Democrat Party
