Just announced for the 15th year Marlborough LitFest line-up are authors Kate Mosse, William Dalrymple and Eleanor Mills, who 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 from 26 – 29 September 2024. The full festival programme will be available on 26 June and priority booking will be available for Friends of LitFest on 1 July ahead of general booking opening on 11 July.
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 2024.
The award-winning writer Kate Mosse returns to LitFest to give us 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.
The full LitFest programme will be available in late June with priority booking from 1 July and general ticket sales from 11 July. For more information and regular 2024 festival programme updates, see www.marlboroughlitfest.org Sign up to become a Friend of Marlborough LitFest to receive priority booking for the 2024 festival as well as receive a festival brochure in the post.