Huge congratulations to #MichaelMalay who has won the Richard Jefferies Award for the best nature writing issued in 2023 for his book titled 'Late Light' published by Bonnier Books UK Zaffre Books. The shortlist was incredibly strong. See more: richardjefferiessociety.org/2024/05/bristo…

Many thanks @bookbrunch🙏Sign up to be a Friend of LitFest now so you don't miss out on seeing Celia Imrie Zeinab Badawi #RobertHardman #simonrussellbeale and many more at our 15th festival (26-29 Sept)! Sign up here: bit.ly/45Qvsa2

Thanks @Marlborough.News🙏 Sign up to be a Friend of LitFest now so you don't miss out on seeing Celia Imrie Zeinab Badawi #RobertHardman #simonrussellbeale and many more at our 15th festival (26-29 Sept)! Sign up here: bit.ly/45Qvsa2

Thanks Louise Spencely 📚🙏 (part of our brilliant festival team😃👏👏) #MLF2024 #15years

🥳JUST ANNOUNCED: Celia Imrie Zeinab Badawi #RobertHardman will be at this year's 15th Marlborough LitFest (26-29 Sept). Sign up as a Friend to gain priority booking! Full programme and tickets on sale in July. More info: bit.ly/3xOEFmL #MLF2024 #15years

A very Happy Easter from us all🐣 If you have some spare creative time over the weekend, enter our Love Books competition and explain your choice of a favourite book, poem or play in up to 750 words! More info: bit.ly/4cBJOPd

Dozens of library services and 26 museums to receive £33m government funding theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Are you busy tomorrow at 6pm?

We have some pretty major plans then...

See you there!

Many thanks @Marlborough.News! For your chance to win £300 or £100 per age category, enter our Love Books competition now, all details here: bit.ly/4cBJOPd

Big thanks Christopher Fielden for the shout out🙏 Enter our Love Books competition and explain your choice of a favourite book, poem or play in up to 750 words, with prizes of £300 and £100 in each age category. More info: bit.ly/4cBJOPd

💫Our fifth national Love Books competition is now open! Explain your choice of a favourite book, poem or play in up to 750 words, with prizes of £300 and £100 in each age category. Please spread the word! All info and how to enter here: bit.ly/4cBJOPd #MLF2024 #15years

It’s #WorldBookDay !🥳
We’re putting children’s voices first. They’re asking us to let go of pressure & expectations to give them a choice – and a chance – to grow up with the life-changing benefits of #readingforpleasure . Show us how you're reading for fun, your way! #ReadYourWay

🥳Happy #WorldBookDay World Book Day UK 📚! Throwback to last year's festival launch with local schoolchildren (and our patron Sir Simon Russell Beale). We run a schools outreach programme to bring authors and their books of all kinds to Marlborough to encourage a love of reading😍

Thanks for the mention BookBrunch🙏we're excited that Sir Simon Russell Beale will be talking all things Shakespeare and acting in his memoir, 'A Piece of Work' on 29 September. Tickets and programme available in July! More info: bit.ly/3V78RDo

We're excited to announce our first event for 2024: LitFest Patron #SirSimonRussellBeale talking about his memoir #APieceofWork on Sunday 29 September with University of Oxford #Shakespeare academic Professor Emma Smith. More info: bit.ly/3V78RDo #MLF2024 #15years

In case you missed it, last week we announced the first ever #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction Longlist! We're spending time getting to know each book and author starting with The Britannias by #AliceAlbinia : bit.ly/49pJ4KV

Calling all book borrowers and buyers in Wiltshire!

Take a few minutes to fill in this short survey about your book and eBook buying and borrowing habits and enter into a prize draw to win £100 shopping vouchers.

Closing date: 29 February 2024

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This is great news The Guardian Chloe Mac Donnell 😍

Good people of #Marlborough - the amazing White Horse Bookshop bookshop has been restocked with a pile of gleaming copies of #WalkingTheWhiteHorses books - pick up your copy while they’re still warm! #Wiltshire #Books #walking

Calling all book borrowers & buyers in Wiltshire!

Take a few minutes to fill in this short survey about your book buying and borrowing habits and enter into a prize draw to win one of six prizes, including £100 shopping vouchers & £50 book tokens.

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