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Marlborough Literature Festival is supported by lead sponsor Brewin Dolphin, and sponsors Hiscox, St Francis School, marlborough.news, William Golding Limited, Marlborough College, Hamilton Trust, The Arts Society Kennet and

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We are also very grateful to the following for their generous support: The White Horse Bookshop, Waitrose, Gazette & Herald, Marlborough Library, St John’s Academy, St Margaret’s Prep School, The Society of Authors, The Reading Agency, English PEN and BBC Radio Wiltshire.

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We could not run the LitFest without our volunteers who donate their time and efforts to make the festival a success. If you are interested in joining the team please contact us at [email protected]

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Finally we would like to thank Broo Doherty and Stephen May for their advice and guidance in developing the LitFest programme.

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Ten years on we owe sincere thanks to those who had the vision and energy to start a literature festival in Marlborough. Many are still involved and have helped it grow into the wide-ranging event it is today. In particular we are grateful to our lead sponsor Brewin Dolphin, who has been with us since the first LitFest in 2010, plus a loyal band of event sponsors, Golden Friends and volunteers.

This year we’re making our programme available ahead of the ticket launch on 11 July. We’re thrilled to have several established literary names but also, as always, plenty of writers just starting out, a mix of workshops and a fabulous children’s programme. To top it all we have a wonderful cover and illustrations by former Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell.

To mark our tenth year we’re stepping up our commitment to outreach events. This includes a partnership with Save the Children, links with HMP Erlestoke and more activity with local schools – see page 37.

Thank you to all those who are making 2019 such a bumper year for the LitFest and to you our audience for your support. We hope you enjoy this year’s festival.

See page 38 for how to book tickets.

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Carol Ann Duffy needs little introduction. Returning to the LitFest six years after her triumphant last appearance, she is one of Britain’s best-loved poets, having just

completed her tenure as Poet Laureate – the first woman

to be appointed to the role. Whether she is writing about David Beckham’s Achilles tendon, the Scottish

referendum or the demise of the humble gas meter, her

poems offer a witty and irreverent comment on modern life.

She is also accessible, using direct language in her pursuit of truth. As Duffy herself says, “I like to use simple words

but in a complicated way.”

Memorably, her first poem as Poet Laureate was about MPs’ expenses

and her latest collection Sincerity skewered

Brexit politicians and Donald Trump. She has also written poems to mark various royal occasions, including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Rapture, a series of intimate poems charting the course of a love affair, won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2005.

Duffy, who is also a playwright, was made a Dame in 2015 and is currently Professor and Creative

Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She will be reading from Sincerity at this event, as well as from earlier collections.

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Okri is also a poet, playwright and essayist. After the Grenfell Tower disaster, he wrote an impassioned poem about the fire: “If you want to see how the poor die, come see Grenfell Tower.” And he wrote another, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Easter Day, after the fire at Notre-Dame. He has always said that one of the most important influences on his writing was a stint living homeless in London in the late 1970s, when the Nigerian government

defaulted on his student scholarship.

Ben Okri was awarded the OBE in 2001 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Ben Okri, this year’s William Golding speaker, is one of the leading voices in

world literature. The Nigerian-born writer was the youngest ever winner of the Man Booker Prize – he was just 32 when The Famished Road triumphed in 1991 – and he has since gone on to

enjoy a glittering literary career.

His latest novel, The Freedom Artist, has been hailed as his most significant book since his Booker winner. A plea for justice in a dystopian world uncomfortably like our own, it is rich with myth and fairy-tale whimsy. Okri once said that his life project was

to do something with “that great oceanic tide of African

fables and stories” that he grew up on.

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B o o k b i n d i n g Wo r k s h o p w i t h L o r i S a u e r Learn the art of creating beautiful bindings in this workshop suitable for all skill levels. Lori Sauer is a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders and teaches master-classes in the UK and abroad, specialising in contemporary design.

This two-hour workshop will teach you simple binding techniques and you will create a piece to take home. All materials supplied.

C o l le c t a b le B o o k R o a d s h o w Our local rare book expert Chris Gange is once again at Katharine House Gallery to value and discuss your rare and collectable books. Whether you have a first edition on your shelves, or just something out of the ordinary, bring it along to Chris and find out more. R a re B o o k s a t M a r l b o ro u g h C o l le g e

Don’t miss the chance to see these wonderful ancient books, including some very early bibles. Dr Simon McKeown, Keeper of Rare Books, will present some highlights of the highly regarded Marlborough College collection.

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Manipulation and demonisation of the media by power-hungry leaders is nothing new: “If I give free rein to the press, I won’t survive in power for two months,” said Napoleon, shortly after declaring himself Emperor of France. Within days, he had shut down 60 out of 73 newspapers.

Yet at the same time he created thousands of new schools and transformed his country with a root-

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and-branch restructuring of the legal system: the Napoleonic Code is still a cornerstone of French society today.

Few historical figures have polarised opinion as much as ‘the Little Corporal’, and it requires a historian of rare skill to tease out ‘the man behind the myth’ (the book’s subtitle). Step forward Adam Zamoyski, the first writer in English to go back to the original European sources.

Zamoyski is a historian with dual British-Polish nationality and homes in both countries. Having already written extensively on Napoleon’s campaigns and the aftermath of his reign, he is an author at the top of his game: “Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read,” wrote Sir Antony Beevor. Coming from the author of Arnhem and Stalingrad, that is praise indeed.

Mike Pitts is one of Britain’s best-known writers and broadcasters on archaeology. Starting out as a professional archaeologist and museum curator, he has directed excavations at Stonehenge and

written about some of our most sensational recent finds, including the discovery of King Richard III’s skeleton beneath a car park in Leicester.


In his latest book, Digging up Britain: Ten Discoveries, a Million Years of History, Pitts gives a new vision of our country, from the Viking age back to the first humans, through ten spectacular digs. Each chapter is an adventure, as archaeologists struggle to excavate and understand finds of international significance. Together, they reveal the importance of travel and migration in our islands’ story.

One chapter that’s sure to be of much local interest is about Stonehenge, where Pitts directed excavations in 1979-80. He was back there in 2008, co-directing the excavation of an Aubrey Hole, one of the site’s 56 chalk pits. Pitts asks a topical question: was Stonehenge built by migrants?

Pitts is a regular on BBC Radio and has written for a number of newspapers, including the Guardian, once winning the British Archaeological Press Award. He is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London and continues to conduct original archaeological research.

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witchcraft. The 17-year-old protagonist, Fleetwood Shuttleworth, is embroiled in the trials after her midwife is accused of sorcery.

Halls, a journalist, grew up near Pendle Hill and had always had a fascination with the ‘witches’: “As I got older I realised they weren’t hunchbacked hags

with cauldrons, but real people, who were poor and illiterate and served a political purpose they had no control over. I knew I wanted to write about them.”

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First-time authors they may be, but Elizabeth Macneal and Stacey Halls are already hot property. Publishers in Britain and abroad fought over the rights to their books and each was featured in the Observer’s “hottest-tipped debut authors of 2019”.

Macneal’s The Doll Factory is set in 1850s London and tells the story of a woman who is both an artist and an artist’s model. “For me, the book is an exploration of freedom and imprisonment; what it means to be stifled and how it feels to achieve creative and literal freedom,” says Macneal.

Macneal herself is no stranger to creative freedom: in addition to writing, she is a potter, working from a studio at the bottom of her London garden.

The Familiars is also a historical work, although Halls’s novel takes place more than 200 years earlier, at the time of the Pendle witch trials, when ten people were hanged for murder by

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Broomfield doesn’t restrict himself to Earth: he takes you on a journey to distant planets – the book starts on one four hundred million million kilometres away – to the ozone layer and to ‘lazy’ and ‘disappearing’ gases. As the song says: “Once I get you up there, where the air is rarefied…”

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“Ban cars outside UK schools to tackle air pollution, teachers say”; “Toxic air will shorten children’s lives by 20 months, study reveals”; “The city I love is making people sick – London mayor”.

The headlines tell the story: with seven million deaths a year attributed to air pollution, the situation is bad and getting worse. It’s a problem that scientist Dr Mark Broomfield – who has a PhD in atmospheric chemistry and has specialised in air quality and health for nearly 30 years – addresses in Every Breath You Take: A User’s Guide to the Atmosphere, his first book.

Drawing on science and personal stories, Broomfield asks questions from the specific (are diesel cars as bad for the environment as they are portrayed?) to the far-reaching (will our grandchildren still have an atmosphere worth breathing?).

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“Sexual intercourse,” according to Philip Larkin, “began in nineteen sixty-three… Between the end of the Chatterley ban/And the Beatles’ first LP.”

Yet, argues Virginia Nicholson, while ‘free love’ may have been all the rage in the Sixties – along with flower power, the mini skirt and the pill – the main beneficiaries of the sexual revolution were men.

How Was it for You? is the latest of Nicholson’s social histories examining the lives of women in the 20th century. After works on women’s experiences of the two world wars, in 2015 she shone a light on the Fifties in Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, revealing “a world peopled by women with radiant smiles, clean pinafores and gleaming coiffures… A time before the pill, when divorce spelled scandal, and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm.”

Fast forward a decade and Nicholson finds women no longer prepared to be dictated to. Love, peace and psychedelia were all well and good but ultimately society was a battlefield, and for women the goal was straightforward: equality.

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For her latest book, Haste turns to Alma Mahler, a composer, author and socialite who lived at the epicentre of fin-de-siècle Vienna. To say that she was well connected in the city’s artistic and intellectual circles is an understatement. Gustav Mahler was her first husband; Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus School, her second. And the artist Gustav Klimt was her first kiss. She later got married for a third time, to the novelist Franz Werfel. Artists, musicians, writers and architects all vied to be a part of Alma Mahler’s coterie, until she was forced to flee Austria in 1938 for France and finally America, where she established a new salon in Los Angeles.

In Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler, Haste draws on unpublished diaries and letters to illuminate the life of an extraordinary artist and intellect. Alma Mahler was one of history’s most complex and charismatic muses – a very modern woman who was a talented composer in her own right.


Cate Haste is an acclaimed biographer, historian and filmmaker. She is the author of a number of bestselling books, including Nazi Women, Rules of Desire and The Goldfish Bowl: Married to the Prime Minister, which she wrote with Cherie Blair and produced as a TV documentary.

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Alex Valente is a translator and teacher, specialising in literature, poetry and comics in Italian, English and French. In 2017 he received the PEN Translates Award and was shortlisted for the TA First Translation Award in 2018. He has published original and translated short stories and poetry in Italian and English. He is flying in from Italy for this event.

Denise Muir works regularly with Italian publishers, authors, literary agents and the Italian Children’s Writers Association to promote their books abroad. She has also helped place books by Scottish publishers in Italy and is a coordinator of the ITI Italian Network. She is based in Scotland.

Chairing the event is Daniel Hahn, writer, editor, translator and a leading figure in the translation world, having served on the board of English PEN and the Society of Authors.Ph

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One of the publishing sensations of recent years, Elena Ferrante’s books have become classics. She is the author of seven novels, an illustrated book for children, and a collection of letters, literary essays and interviews. Her fiction has been translated into over 40 languages and been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Her four-book series, The Neapolitan Novels, has sold 5.5 million copies.

Tackling this popular author will be two Italian translators. Each given the same paragraph from one of her works to translate, they defend their choice of words, punctuation and grammar. The process often produces two very different versions!

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Doctor-turned-comedian-turned-TV director/producer-turned novelist, Evans is probably best known as the creator of shows such as Father Ted, The Kumars at No. 42 and Have I Got News For You? She is at the LitFest wearing her novelist’s hat, but even tying down her literary output is tricky: she has written both for children (Small Change for Stuart; Wed Wabbit) and for adults, with bestselling titles such as Their Finest Hour and a Half (released in 2016 as a film, Their Finest, starring Gemma Arterton and Sam Claflin) and Crooked Heart.

Then in 2018 came Old Baggage. It is the story of Mattie Simpkin, a former suffragette who, in the words of one review, “is a creation as amusing as she is blinkered and egotistic”. Set in 1928, suffrage has finally been extended to include all women over 21. For many of her gender, the campaign is won, yet for Mattie, “the battle is not yet over; every day brings fresh skirmishes”.

In an age of continued wage imparity and #MeToo, few modern readers would argue with her. Old Baggage has already become a word-of-mouth favourite. P

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sold more than half a million copies and has been translated into 30 languages. So it is no surprise that Filer has turned to non-fiction for his second book, although in many ways it feels like a natural sequel.

In The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia, Filer asks us to spend time in the company of some extraordinary people whose lives have been affected by this strange and misunderstood condition. And as a former mental health nurse, he listens with compassion to their complex stories, interweaving them with his own meditative essays that debunk myths and challenge received wisdom.

“I have never read a more powerful book about mental health,” says Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep. “It has the ability to change the way people think about mental illness.”

Filer’s BBC Radio 4 documentary, The Mind in the Media, which explored portrayals of mental illness in fiction and journalism, was shortlisted for a Mind Media Award in 2017. He is currently a Reader in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

Nathan Filer’s debut novel, The Shock of the Fall, was always going to be a hard act to follow. The story of a young schizophrenic grieving the loss of his brother won the Costa Book Award in 2013,

Faber’s list of published authors is a literary who’s who of the 20th and 21st centuries: T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Harold Pinter, Sylvia Plath, (Marlborough’s very own) William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Kazuo Ishiguro… and it can lay claim to 13 Nobel Laureates and six Booker Prize winners.

Now, 90 years after his grandfather founded the firm, Toby Faber lifts the lid on one of the world’s great publishing houses. Why did it reject Orwell’s Animal Farm? Why was Larkin so reluctant to attend poetry readings?


How did this tiny firm weather the Great Depression, wartime paper shortages and dramatic financial crises and retain its independence? And how did a four-year-old Tom Faber – who later

became Toby’s father – manage to persuade T.S. Eliot to start writing poems about cats?

While he still works for the publisher, Toby Faber is also an author in his own right: he has written a biography of Antonio Stradivari and Fabergé’s Eggs, which follows the story of each of the Russian jeweller’s 50-plus creations.

Toby Faber will be joined by Claire McGlasson, author of The Rapture and one of Faber’s exciting debuts for 2019.

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To describe Hilary Cottam as a doer is a serious understatement. She is a social entrepreneur, a designer, a writer, an activist. She has worked in schools and prisons and with people who are young, old, unemployed, infirm or in poverty. She has worked around the globe with Unicef and the World Bank. She has been a director of the Design

Council, UK Designer of the Year and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Just reading about Hilary Cottam’s achievements is exhausting.

And she thinks big. The subtitle of Radical Help is How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us and Revolutionise

the Welfare State. Why do we need to rethink the welfare state? Because, writes Cottam, “this once brilliant innovation can no longer help us face the challenges of today”.

At the heart of this new way of working is human connection: “When people feel supported by strong human relationships, change happens. And when we design new systems that make this sort of collaboration feel simple and easy, people want to join in.”

Never been part of a revolution before? Now’s your chance to change that.

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“I loved reading books where the everyday is inhabited by the weird, where the normal becomes strange. Horror teaches us about suspense and tension, about the edges where belief can stretch and morph. The world is strange and fiction can push this strangeness and teach us something new.”

So said Daisy Johnson in an interview with her former Oxford college. The normal certainly becomes strange in Everything Under, Johnson’s first novel, for which she was shortlisted for last year’s Booker Prize, the youngest nominee in its history – she was 27.

While the story centres on the relationship between a daughter reunited with her mother, it soon becomes apparent that theirs is no ordinary history: characters are not always who they seem; gender and time are fluid; and the novel is haunted both by the brooding presence of the Oxfordshire countryside and by ‘the Bonak’, a ghostly riverine monster.

Beneath it all lies the legend of Oedipus, the Greek king who murdered his father and married his mother. “I loved the weird darkness of the myth,” said Johnson. Weirdness is her watchword.

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on the square in Lasquenet-sous-Tannes, but the sleepy village is soon thrown into disarray when old Narcisse the florist dies, leaving a written confession for Francis Reynaud, the local priest. And when a mysterious new shop opens across the square, one that strangely mirrors Vianne’s, change is in the air – and possibly even murder.

“A place of magic and mysteries,” Monica Ali says of the new book. “Harris excels in this delicate balance of realism and enchantment. It will intrigue and charm readers every bit as much as Chocolat.”

The Strawberry Thief is Harris’s fourth Chocolat novel, following on from The Lollipop Shoes in 2007 and Peaches for Monsieur le Curé in 2012. An Anglo-French writer, she is the author of ten other novels, many short stories, and two cookbooks.

Harris is also an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Cambridge, and in 2013 was awarded an MBE.

Sometimes good things come to those who wait. Joanne Harris’s 1999 novel, Chocolat, sold over a million copies in the UK alone and became a global bestseller. A year later, it was turned into a film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. Now, 20 years on, Harris has written a new Chocolat novel.

The Strawberry Thief takes readers back to the familiar world of Vianne Rocher and her chocolatier

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Phileas Fogg did it. Michael Palin followed. And now another name can be added to the list of intrepid adventurers who have circumnavigated the globe. Except that the British journalist and travel writer Monisha Rajesh didn’t want to whip around the world in 80 days – she decided to do it in 80 train journeys.

What followed was an extraordinary 45,000-mile journey that took her from King’s Cross St Pancras to Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia, Canada and beyond. And, fortunately for us, she captured it all in her elegant and witty new book, Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-mile Adventure.

Whether it was on the Qinghai railway in Tibet or the Venice-Simplon Orient Express, Rajesh struck up friendships and swapped hilarious stories with fellow travellers, in between enjoying some of the world’s most stunning views. And who knew that Westerners can travel by train across North Korea?

“Monisha Rajesh has chosen one of the best ways of seeing the world,” says none other than Palin himself. “Never too fast, never too slow, her journey does what trains do best. Getting to the heart of things. Prepare for a very fine ride.”

Rajesh, who writes for the Times and the Guardian, is also the author of Around India in 80 Trains.

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Ian Rankin is a Scottish crime writer at the very top of his game – a flag-bearer for ‘tartan noir’. His finest creation, Edinburgh’s Inspector John Rebus, has become a household name, thanks to 22 novels, two TV series and, most recently, a stage play. And yet, when Rankin wrote his first Rebus book in 1985, he was disconcerted to see it reviewed as a genre

novel, until a fellow author told him it hadn’t done any harm to John Buchan.

“I soon came to love crime fiction,” Rankin says, “for its rollercoaster plots, its memorable heroes and villains, and its knotty moral concerns. Here was a form that would allow me to write what

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I wanted to write, namely readable novels about the darker side of life in Scotland’s capital.”

Rankin’s latest book, In a House of Lies, is his 22nd Rebus novel, and sees the abrasive detective, long retired, brought back to help solve a crime from more than a decade earlier. All the old favourites appear, including ‘Big Ger’ Cafferty, Malcolm Fox and Siobhan Clarke. “How does Rebus keep on getting better and better?” asks Lee Child. “Rankin is a genius.”

Rankin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE in 2002.

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No need to turn on the radio or TV or even venture to the paper shop. This year the

LitFest brings you our very own version of the Sunday morning

survey of news and gossip from the broadsheets to the red tops.

Our chair is Rosie Goldsmith, an award-winning journalist specialising in the arts and current affairs who, in 20 years at the BBC, presented flagship programmes such as Crossing

Continents, A World In Your Ear and Front Row. Goldsmith is founder of the European Literature Network and a champion of translation and language learning. With the nickname Rosie the Riveter she will be sure to keep her guests in check.

Joining her will be a panel guaranteed to give us a range of views. Stephen May is an old friend of the LitFest based in Yorkshire and

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W h a t t h e P a p e r s S a yan author of five novels including one just published, We Don’t Die of Love. Sarah Rose Troughton, HM Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire, is involved in a number of local charities and organisations and she paints as a hobby. Harry Forbes, just graduating from Oxford University, is a Marlborough Town Councillor. And Chris Riddell, multi-talented author and illustrator, will for this session be putting his cartooning skills into action to provide a different take on current events.

Come along for a lively and topical start to your Sunday. You heard it first here…

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Question: who was the youngest person to swim the Channel and why will his record never be beaten? Answer: Tom Gregory, in 1988, aged 11. His record will stand forever because, shortly after his feat, the Channel Swimming Association set a minimum age of 16.

Gregory’s extraordinary achievement is the subject of his book, which won the 2018 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.

A Boy in the Water takes you from Gregory’s early swimming experiences as a reluctant doggy-paddler in a pool in south-east London, through his increasingly gruelling training regime with his coach – he was allowed no contact with warm water for nine months before the swim – to the event itself: a night ferry to Calais, being treated to cooked breakfast by a trucker; entering the water in nothing but a pair of swimming trunks, an orange cap and goggles; the elation of cresting waves and looking at the support boat in the troughs beneath him; the

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luminescence of the water; falling briefly asleep; hallucinating; the final few strokes; the pebbles of Dover beach.

A final question: how long did the swim take? Answer: 12 hours.

We are proud to have had a partnership with the Society of Authors since the launch of the LitFest in 2010, each year welcoming the winner of one of their awards for new writers to talk about their writing. This year we’re featuring the McKitterick Prize awarded annually to an author over the age of 40 for a debut novel.

The winner will be invited to the LitFest to talk about their book with one of the judges, Christopher Tayler, contributing editor at


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the London Review of Books. They will be chosen from this exciting shortlist of seven titles: Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday, the story of a love affair between a young editor and a world-famous older writer; Meet Me at the Museum, a novel in letters between two people who have never met, by Anne Youngson; Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott about Truman Capote’s fall from grace; The Sealwoman’s Gift by Sally Magnusson, the journey of a 17th-century slave taken from Iceland to Algiers; West, an eerie parable of early American frontier life, by Carys Davies; What We’re Teaching Our Sons, observations about fatherhood, by Owen Booth;Who’s Who When Everyone is Someone Else by C.D.Rose, in which a heartbroken man tries to redeem himself by championing forgotten books.

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of abundance,” she wrote in a newspaper article earlier this year. Latest figures bear out her pessimism: in 2017, while tobacco was associated with 8 million deaths, 11 million deaths were linked with poor diet.

Weaning ourselves off cheap processed foods will not be easy, argues Wilson, but it can be done: in Amsterdam, a city once plagued by childhood obesity, children’s parties are now celebrated not with cake but with olives.

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First came the hunter-gatherer diet: wild plants and wild meat; then agriculture gave us grains; next we began to eat more vegetables and preserved foods; and now we are at stage four, an era – in affluent countries, at least – of huge choice, yet one in which we prefer to ignore that choice. Just 30 of the world’s 7,000 edible crops provide 95% of our food. Not so much one size fits all, as one diet fits all.

If this sounds depressing, for Bee Wilson – food journalist, author and, according to one critic, all-round ‘kitchen oracle’ – it is: “Our free and comfortable lifestyles are undermined by the fact that our food is killing us, not through lack of it but through its abundance – a hollow kind P

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Every year, king salmon swim 2,000 miles up the Yukon river from the Bering Sea to McNeil Lake in Canada to spawn. For centuries, their journey has played a vital role in the lives of the people and animals along the route – but now the numbers are dwindling. Adam Weymouth kayaked the length of their run to find out why.

His journey, told in the award-winning Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey, encompasses nature, travel, adventure, politics and the environment. It is, in many ways, an everyday story of human greed. Salmon numbers have plummeted after decades of industrialised over-fishing and climate change, with dire consequences for everyone and everything that depended on their annual return, from grizzly bears to the Yup’ik people.

Born in Salisbury, Weymouth lives on a 100-year-old Dutch barge on the River Lea in London and has spent much of his life writing about global warming and environmentalism. And while he tries to remain positive, his outlook for the planet is bleak. “When the shit hits the fan,” he said in a recent interview, “we’re going to turn up the air conditioning.” P

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The annual Big Town Read at the LitFest has proved increasingly popular, particularly with reading groups who discuss the selected book before having a chance to question the author.

This year’s choice, The Salt Path, tells the true story of a homeless, penniless, jobless couple who walk the 630 miles of the South West Coast Path from Minehead in Somerset to Poole in Dorset.

It sounds simple but it is so, so much more. For a start, their lack of money is the least of their worries: the day after they lost their home, Moth, Raynor Winn’s husband, was diagnosed with a rare degenerative brain disease. Their walk is both defiant and life-affirming; the more they walk, the more they feel drawn to, and part of, nature.

Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2018, The Salt Path makes a wonderful Big Town Read, which, working in partnership with The Reading Agency

and with the support of libraries, aims to bring new audiences to the festival.

Copies of the book will be available from Marlborough Library over the summer. Raynor Winn will also be giving a talk at HMP Erlestoke.

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If authors should write about what they know, then the British Muslim Ayisha Malik is right on message. After working in a London publishing house and looking for love, she wrote a book about… a woman in publishing looking for love. Sofia Khan is Not Obliged, her debut novel, was billed as the Muslim answer to Bridget Jones and it did not disappoint, winning widespread praise. So too did its sequel, The Other Half of Happiness.“There are very few books about Muslims that aren’t issue-laden, and I feel this duology redresses that balance ever so slightly,” she says.

Malik’s new book, This Green and Pleasant Land, deals with issues aplenty, but they are leavened with her trademark wit. In a deathbed scene straight out of a 19th-century novel, a dying mother in a sleepy English village calls for her son and makes one final wish. Except that this is 21st-century Britain, the mother is Muslim, and she wants her son to build a mosque. How will he

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tell his friends in the village? More importantly, how will a minaret look, wedged between the local church and an art gallery?

“This is the standout book of the year,” according to award-winning crime writer Abir Mukherjee.

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The Roman empire, Islam, the Persian empire, the Anglo-Saxons… Tom Holland is a historian who can, it seems, turn his hand to any era and bring it to life, combining forensic research with descriptive colour and panache. And while he is best known for his knowledge of the ancient world, he is equally adept – whether on television, radio or in print – at analysing the influence of dinosaurs on the mythology of different cultures, the demise of the hedgehog or the art of the cricket cut shot (he plays for the Authors’ XI).

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Holland is not afraid to confront controversy: in his 2017 Channel 4 documentary, Isis: The Origins of Violence, he addressed the question of whether Islamic doctrine contains a strain of thought that can be used to justify extreme violence and even genocide.

His new book, Dominion, examines one of the most enduring and influential legacies of the ancient world: Christianity. Why was it so revolutionary? What was its impact over the centuries? And how does it affect the way we think today?P

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TICKETS £20 (16 places only)VENUE Quaker Meeting House, The Parade, MarlboroughDATE Sunday 29 September 2 - 4.30pm

P o e t r y i n t h e P u bJoin Alex Hickman, writer and poet, at The Green Dragon for our popular open mic poetry event. All poets of any age are invited to bring poems about ‘Truth’ which is the theme for this year’s National Poetry Day on 3 October. You can submit your poems in advance to [email protected] and these will be read first. Or just turn up on the day. Alex has run our Poetry in the Pub sessions for several years and blogs at stuff-happens.org

C re a t i v e W r i t i n g Wo r k s h o p f o r A d u l t s w i t h S t e p h e n M a yStephen May is the author of five novels including the Costa Prize short-listed Life! Death! Prizes! His most recent book is the acclaimed We Don’t Die of Love. May is a sought-after creative writing tutor and has run successful workshops for several universities and retreats including those for the prestigious Arvon Foundation.

Suitable for both shy beginners as well as the more experienced, this fun and stimulating workshop will cover generating plot, structure, dialogue, character development and redrafting as well as giving insights into publishing.

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We know him mainly for his trilogy about Cicero (Imperium, Lustrum, Dictator) and for his novels set in and around the Second World War (Fatherland, Enigma and, most recently, Munich). Now “the master of the intelligent thriller”, as one critic has dubbed him, is back – but this time in an entirely different historical era: 15th-century England.

In the year 1468, a young priest arrives in an Exmoor village to take the funeral of his predecessor. But why did the old parson die? Is there a link to his passion for collecting the ancient artefacts – fragments of glass, human bones, coins – that are strewn around the surrounding countryside? As the priest is drawn into the isolated community, everything he believes about himself, faith and history is tested to destruction.

Harris devotees should consider themselves lucky that The Second Sleep has seen the light of day: last year the author, who lives in the village of Kintbury, a few miles from Marlborough, revealed that his Golden Retriever puppy had ‘devoured’ the manuscript of a first draft. “It must have a meaty plot,” responded one fan.

K r i s t i n a S t e p h e n s o nW h y A re T h e re S o M a n y B o o k s A b o u t B e a r s ? It’s a good question posed by Kristina Stephenson. And there

S t o r y t e l l i n g Our popular free storytelling event for under 5s is back again this year – join us for 30 minutes of stories and laughter on Friday morning in Marlborough Library. Older brothers and sisters are welcome too.

TICKETS £5Suitable for 3+VENUE St. Mary’s Church HallDATE Saturday 28 September 10.15am

Mccaughrean will be this year’s Big School Read for secondary schools, talking about her most recent book Where the World Ends.

Fre e E v e n t s f o r S c h o o l sEvery year we are proud to offer free events with popular authors for invited local schools. Since our launch in 2010 we have reached more than 3,500 children with these author talks. This year John Dougherty, poet and author of Stinkbomb and Ketchup Face, will be entertaining children from local primary schools and the prolific author Geraldine

Our children’s events are sponsored by St Francis School, marlborough.news, Hamilton Trust and The Arts Society Kennet and Swindon.


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is a very surprising answer from all the animals in her new picture book.

The bestselling author of Sir Charlie Stinky Socks will be leading a lively interactive event for her fans. Prepare to be entertained with music and theatrics from this engaging author whose career as a producer and writer for the BBC led to the zany world of Sir Charlie.C

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Cressida Cowell is the bestselling children’s author of How To Train Your Dragon. She is also no stranger to Marlborough. A former student at the college, she entranced audiences at our inaugural LitFest in 2010. Since that appearance, her Dragon series has sold more than eight million copies and become a major DreamWorks movie franchise – the third film came out earlier this year. C

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Cowell has also written a new bestselling series, The Wizards of Once. This year she will be chatting about the latest instalment, Knock Three Times, as well as her Dragon books, and offering tips on how to become a children’s author.

“I have always believed that children are incredibly intelligent,” she recently said. “You don’t need to dumb down for children in any way whatsoever – if anything, they’re more intelligent than adults.”

Cowell is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and a founder patron of the Children’s Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Gold Award in the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize. After growing up on a small island off the west coast of Scotland, she now lives with her husband, three children and two cats in west London.

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A girl stares you defiantly in the eyes, brandishing an umbrella like a rapier, her cape blowing in the wind; a hideous, wraith-like creature with razor-sharp teeth prepares to lure a victim to their death; the leopard-print shoes of Theresa May emerge from a dustbin as it rolls towards the Brexit abyss; a beautiful winged horse emerges from the clouds…

Welcome to the wonderful world of Chris Riddell, the former Children’s Laureate known globally for his intricate, imaginative

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and hugely engaging drawings, whether in children’s books, in his political cartoons for the Observer or, indeed, on the cover of this year’s LitFest brochure.

Riddell has illustrated – and often written – many of the most popular children’s books of recent decades: the Goth Girl series, The Edge Chronicles, Ottoline, Muddle Earth, The Emperor of Absurdia, Fergus Crane, The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Wendel’s Workshop. Now we have Guardians of Magic, the first in a new series, The Cloud Horse Chronicles, in which three ordinary children, with extraordinary gifts, come together to defeat the enemies who threaten the mysterious cloud horses.

His talent – recognised with an OBE earlier this year – is a triumph of the imagination. He will be drawing throughout the event.C

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There seems to be something of a tradition for British comedians to become children’s authors. It has certainly turned out well for David Baddiel, whose debut children’s novel, The Parent Agency, was a bestseller in 2014. Since then, he’s written four more bestselling books, aimed at nine- to twelve-year olds, and established himself as an original new voice in children’s fiction.

Baddiel shot to fame in the early 1990s with The Mary Whitehouse Experience, a TV comedy show that had begun life on radio. He then worked with fellow comedian Frank Skinner, presenting Fantasy Football League on BBC2. In 1996 they co-wrote ‘Three Lions’ with The Lightning Seeds to mark England’s hosting of the European Championships. The song has since become the de facto anthem of English football.

Head Kid is about the naughtiest boy in the school swapping bodies with his ultra-strict headmaster. “Being a comedian gives you licence to remain quite

childish yourself,” Baddiel says. “I think that means I have quite a good radar for what the child in me would think and say and feel in numerous different situations.”

Baddiel has written four novels for adults and continues to tour as a stand-up comedian.

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R e a c h i n g O u tThe LitFest has always been about encouraging reading and writing for everyone in Marlborough and beyond, whether or not they are festival goers.

All local primary schools are invited to enter our annual competition with prizes kindly donated by Haine & Smith Opticians. A few lucky schools will have the added bonus of being able to choose books up to £200 in value for their school library. In addition to free events for schools in and around the town, we are supporting a visit by Maz Evans, author of Who Let the Gods Out, to St Margaret’s in Calne for their local primary schools. And look out for a themed dance by schoolchildren in Marlborough High Street on the morning of Thursday 26 September to celebrate the LitFest’s tenth anniversary.

The LitFest is working with the Friends of Erlestoke and HMP Erlestoke library to support the provision of book bags for children visiting family members and to arrange a talk by our Big Town Read author Raynor Winn. And we’ve acknowledged our gratitude to Pound Arts in Corsham which, until this year, has provided our box office, with a donation to its appeal fund and support for David Baddiel to visit local schools.

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Marlborough and District Dyslexia Association is

running two events for children at St Mary’s School on Friday 27 September. Tom McLaughlin, award-winning dyslexic author and illustrator, will be explaining how he uses his skills to inspire young readers.

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Save the Children is celebrating its centenary in 2019. Marlborough has a special link with the charity through its founder Eglantyne Jebb, a pioneer of children’s rights, who had earlier been a teacher here. The LitFest is working with Save the Children and local schools to look at the obstacles overcome by child refugees through Sarah Garland’s Azzi in Between, a picture book that movingly illustrates the topic. Children have been invited to express their reaction to the story through any medium and the results will be exhibited in the Town Hall during the LitFest and afterwards in Marlborough Library.

THURSDAY 7.30pm CAROL ANN DUFFYMemorial Hall, Marlborough College

FRIDAY10am BOOKBINDINGWhite Horse Bookshop11amSTORYTELLING Under 5sMarlborough Library2pm BOOKBINDINGWhite Horse Bookshop7.30pmBEN OKRITown Hall

SATURDAY 10.15am KRISTINA STEPHENSONSt Mary’s Church Hall 10.30am ADAM ZAMOYSKITown Hall11am COLLECTABLE BOOKSKatharine House Gallery

12 noonHISCOX DEBUT AUTHORSTown Hall12 noon MIKE PITTSSt Mary’s Church Hall12 noon MARK BROOMFIELDWhite Horse Bookshop1.30pmVIRGINIA NICHOLSONTown Hall1.30pmCATE HASTEWhite Horse Bookshop1.30pm TRANSLATION DUEL St Mary’s Church Hall3pmLISSA EVANSSt Mary’s Church Hall3pmNATHAN FILERTown Hall3pm TOBY FABER & CLAIRE MCGLASSONWhite Horse Bookshop4.30pm CRESSIDA COWELL Town Hall

4.30pmHILARY COTTAMSt Mary’s Church Hall4.30pmDAISY JOHNSONWhite Horse Bookshop6pm JOANNE HARRISTown Hall6pm MONISHA RAJESHSt Mary’s Church Hall7.30pmIAN RANKINTown Hall

SUNDAY10.30am WHAT THE PAPERS SAYTown Hall12 noonTOM GREGORYWhite Horse Bookshop12 noonCHRIS RIDDELL Town Hall1pmPOETRY IN THE PUBThe Green Dragon1.30pm THE MCKITTERICK PRIZEWhite Horse Bookshop

E v e n t L i s t i n g s , B o o k i n g & Ve n u e s

HOW TO BOOK TICKETSOnline: www.marlboroughlitfest.org (no booking fee, postage charged at £1.75 if required)Telephone: 0333 666 3366 Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat 9am-5pm (through TicketSource £1.75 telephone booking fee applies, plus postage if required)

In person: The White Horse Bookshop, Marlborough, Mon-Sat 9am-5.30pm, Sun 11am-4pm (cash or cheque only) Please note: All events will run for approximately one hour except the workshops, Collectable Book Roadshow and Poetry in the Pub

Terms and Conditions We do not automatically exchange or refund tickets; this includes moving to an alternative performance. Tickets can be collected from the Box Office in the Town Hall over the Festival weekend from 5.30pm on Friday 27 September. Children under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult for all events. Details in the brochure are correct at the time of going to print. The Festival reserves the right to make changes in the event of unforeseen circumstances.

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1.30pm BEE WILSONTown Hall2pmCREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP for AdultsQuaker Meeting House2pmRARE BOOKSMarlborough College3pm DAVID BADDIEL Memorial Hall, Marlborough College 3pm ADAM WEYMOUTHWhite Horse Bookshop3pmTHE BIG TOWN READTown Hall4.30pm AYISHA MALIK White Horse Bookshop4.30pm TOM HOLLANDTown Hall6pm ROBERT HARRISTown Hall

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The Town HallA late Victorian building which dominates the east end of the High Street. The Assembly Room is the main festival venue. The Court Room will be a bookshop and café for the weekend. Parking is available in the High Street or in Waitrose car park, between the High Street and George Lane.

St Mary’s Church Hall is next door to the church behind the Town Hall. Access is from the bottom of Kingsbury Street via Patten Alley. From the church follow signs to the entrance of the hall up steps to the left of the church. Step-free access is from Silverless Street.

The White Horse Bookshop

is conveniently located within a minute’s walk from the Town Hall on the north

side of the High Street.

Katharine House Gallery, The Parade. From the Town Hall, cross the pedestrian crossing opposite The Bear and walk down The Parade. Katharine House is at the bottom of the road facing you.

Quaker Meeting House, The Parade, is on the right where the street widens, before the Fire Station. It will be signposted.

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