11.30am 9 May Alexandra Harris Rising Down Faber Books exploring her patch of what TS Eliot called “significant soil” #archeology
Booking chippingcampden.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/sh…
The Guardian review: stories from WWII, the days of the French revolution and the prehistoric era 👇
theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Do come! So looking forward to this, Chipping Campden Literature Festival

3.30pm 6 May hear more from Paul Caruana Galizia
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🍋Future signings🍋

helenlederer.co.uk/appearances

Mirror Books #ntib #book #book signing #appearance #memoir #comedy #wittywomen

We are very excited to welcome back Roderick Williams with Roger Vignoles to perform a fabulous Hearing Pictures programme 14th May 7pm - last few tickets here: tinyurl.com/Roderick-Willi… #Schubert #Britten #Debussy #ClassicalMusic #ChippingCampden #Cotswolds #baritone

From yesterday….

2 weeks to go until our first Young Artists Lunchtime concert on the 14th May at 12:05 - come and hear the thrilling #trumpet of Royal Philharmonic Society nominee Aaron Azunda Akugbo along with astonishing accordionist Ryan Corbett. Tickets here tinyurl.com/Aaron-Akugbo (free for students)

Fire at main venue is every Festival organisers worst nightmare. Our hearts go out to Annie and her team. If you have tickets for Stratford Literary Festival 1-5 May please go to this link and please support the festival in any way you can
stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/new-festival-v…

IMPORTANT! Due to a fire at the Crowne Plaza Hotel we have had to relocate all our Festival events. Please see this link for the new locations & share with anyone you know who is coming to the festival. tinyurl.com/mv9zth7r

.National Theatre #Grenfell now in New York
8.30am 8th May playwright Gillian Slovo & housing expert Peter Apps discuss play and UK avoidable housing disaster More info and booking:
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Charlie Bennett says: FANTASTIC The New Yorker Review:
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

In N #Cotswolds 8.30pm 8 May? Unmissable:
Gillian Slovo & Peter Apps discussing Grenfell the play. More info & booking: chippingcampden.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/sh……
Meanwhile read The New York Times review 👇
nytimes.com/2024/04/22/the…

In N #Cotswolds 8.30pm 8 May? Unmissable:
Gillian Slovo & Peter Apps discussing Grenfell the play. More info & booking: chippingcampden.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/sh……Meanwhile read The New York Times
review 👇
nytimes.com/2024/04/22/the…

A lot of British plays have transferred to New York lately. The first one we've given a critic's pick to is 'Grenfell: Grenfell: In the words of survivors' nytimes.com/2024/04/22/the…

6 - 11 May Looking forward to Stuart Maconie & Helen Lederer coming to N #Cotswolds after Leeds Lit Fest + many, many more fab authors. Info & booking campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/eve…

🎤 I’ve got a busy but exciting 8 weeks ahead:
CheltenhamPoetryFest Guernsey Lit Fest Chipping Campden Literature Festival Rossiter Books CheltSciFest Sturminster Newton Literary Festival

Plus some BBC freelance shifts, lots planned for Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast & a few days by the sea!

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Hoping for Cider Chipping Campden Literature Festival
Tues 7th May 8:30pm
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Buy🍋Not That I’m Bitter🍋here:
tinyurl.com/45r95nus

#ntib #memoir #book #comedy #funny #funny women #author #interview #book signing #witty #witty women #chippingcampden Cidermill Theatre

The W & C Archive is unique. To devote a whole hour to a single author, incl'g 14 Nobel winners, their voices in intimate, wide-ranging conversations. Poet Alastair Reid wrote “Voice is perhaps the most essential and lasting incarnation of any existence.”
cbc.ca/books/all-33-y…

.M Rafi Hottak Below X joins author /journalist Larisa Brown #TheGardenerOfLashkarGar & Caroline Sanderson The Bookseller to discuss The Afghans who risked everything to fight the #Taliban More info & booking: chippingcampden.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/sh…
Afghans free tix: email [email protected]

Today, we mourn the loss of Jamil Zadran, a brave AFG SF commando, unjustly arrested and tortured in a Taliban cell until his tragic death.
Who should we blame for this?
1 - The US/NATO forces, who betrayed Afghan's trust, falling prey to their deceitful narratives?
2 - Our own…

.Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 in North #Cotswolds 12 noon 6 May when he'll be talking #HumanRightsViolations #China & #Russia & with Marina Litvinenko & John Sweeney chaired by Baroness Helena Kennedy KC More info & booking:
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