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3-8 May 2027 in magnificent North Cotswolds: interviews & talks, cabaret, jazz. History, Homer, gardens, memoir, politics, war, fiction, poetry, biography, art. Main venue state of the art Cidermill Theatre www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/conta…

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
See @lukeharding1968.bsky.social below: interview with @thedailybeast.bsky.social. Luke brings #Betrayal to us in May Keep up to date with Festival news by signing up to: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In May we have an event with Sarah Hosking: Five Pounds For 'A Room Of One's Own' Where Women May Write Exactly What They Think @womenwritersnet.bsky.social Keep up to date with Festival news by signing up to: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you @helenjauthor.bsky.social for uncorrected proof copy #DOMINOMAN @simonandschuster.bsky.social Looking fwd to seeing you in May 2027. Keep up to date with Festival news by signing up to: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oddly this is one of the most contentious parts of my Barbara biog - it'll be interesting to see whether Brooklands adjusts its account of this event accordingly ... www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/arti...
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Barbara Cartland’s 1931 Brooklands race was more staged than society admitted
Barbara Cartland’s attempt to prove women could drive as well as men produced staged filming, inexperienced drivers and a furious response from Joan Chetwynd, exposing how little of the supposed Brook...
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congratulations 🥂@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Shortlisted for @bailliegifford.bsky.social for #TheGreatDictator. We look forward to meeting Matthew May 2027. To keep up to date with our news sign up to our Festival News Letter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you @carosanderson.bsky.social for saying yes to interviewing Sarah Dunant #TheSackofRome for us in May 2027( and thank you @publicistkelly.bsky.social )To keep up to date with our news sign up to our Festival News Letter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy publication day to Miranda Malins THE HOUSE OF CROMWELL @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social Miranda will be with us in May #History To learn more about our 2027 Festival sign up for our news letter www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congratulations🥂 @charlottehiggins.bsky.social longlisted for 2026 Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction. Charlotte will be talking to @arusbridger.bsky.social about Ukrainian Lessons at our Festival in May. For more of our 2027 news: Festival News Letter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Delighted @lukeharding1968.bsky.social will be with us in May Festival News Letter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Festival News Letter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
May 2027 @sykhalid.bsky.social & @timcoulson.bsky.social creators of @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social discuss Tim's latest book Predators. For more news on our 2027 📚 Festival www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Tim Coulson @timcoulson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Great to be recording season 2 of @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social podcast. One thing that has amazed me is how many people tell me and @sykhalid.bsky.social that they listen. Latest episode, all about mites, is out. Snippet in video, full episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/3Zp4....
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Please spread the word @classicsatstannes.bsky.social Henry Power St Peter's College Oxford is bringing #HomerHaunted to our 18th Festival 3-8th May 2027 Learn more by signing up to our Festival News Letter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Author of Preditors @timcoulson.bsky.social below will be with us in 2027. Festival dates 3-8th May 2027 Learn more by signing up to our Festival News Letter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In 2027 @drgavin.bsky.social brings William Morris and His Gardens @yalepress.bsky.social to our 18th Festival 3-8th May To keep up with our 2027 Festival news sign up to our Festival News Letter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good luck with 19 Oct launch of William Morris & His Gardens 🥂@drgavin.bsky.social and looking forward to meeting you at our 3-8th May Festival News Letter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
'Dark and compelling . . . brilliant' Bill Browder 'War reporting at its finest' Serhii Plokhy 'More gripping than a thriller' Andrey Kurkov Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest by @lukeharding1968.bsky.social is out today in hardback, ebook and audio. linktr.ee/luke_harding
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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Indeed, the seasons change all too quickly! It always brings to mind that Dr Seuss quote: 'How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn.' We hope issue 91 brings some cheer during the cooler months ahead!🦊
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Chipping Campden Literature Festival writers in order of first appearance (many authors return again and again) … #chippingcampden #literaturefestival
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Congratulations 🥂 to one of our 2026 authors @drmjwarren.bsky.social below who is on @wainwrightprize.bsky.social shortlist. To find out about our 2027 authors sign up to our newsletters: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
See @prospectmagazine.co.uk article blow. @arusbridger.bsky.social will be talking to @lukeharding1968.bsky.social about BETRAYAL at our 18th Festival on Sat 8 May To receive newsletters www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
AND @lukeharding1968.bsky.social is bringing BETRAYAL to us in May. To join our mailing list go to: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/contact
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a... Author of Betrayal @lukeharding1968.bsky.social will be with us in 2027. Festival dates 3-8th May 2027 Learn more by signing up to our Festival News Letter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Betrayal by Luke Harding review – could Donald Trump be a Russian asset?
A Guardian correspondent’s sobering account of the US betrayal of Ukraine – and the possible reasons behind it
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Chipping Campden Literature Festival was founded in 2010 by Vicky Bennett, and since that time has become renowned for presenting a series of thought provoking, original, and wide-ranging events featuring some of the world’s greatest writers. From 2024 onwards she was joined by her husband Charlie.
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Chipping Campden Literature Festival was founded in 2010 by Vicky Bennett and since that time has become renowned for presenting a series of thought provoking, original, and wide-ranging events featuring some of the world’s greatest writers. From 2024 onwards she was joined by her husband Charlie.
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Many thanks to all our sounder this year. We really appreciate your support.
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 17/08/2026
Kemptown Bookshop is celebrating 50 years in business with the publication of an anthology exploring the role and significance of bookshops. 👇
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Kemptown Bookshop marks 50th anniversary with new anthology
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
'And fling the new moons through his stormy banner, And the full moons and the dark moons.' Ted Hughes was born on this day in 1930.
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Save the date! The Chipping Campden Literature Festival 2027 Monday 4th May - Saturday 8th May Sign up to our newsletter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter #books #Cotswolds
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This year's production of Private Lives 🎭 with fab professional cast. Want to know about our 2027 play? Sign up to our newsletter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 17/08/2026
More than 200 independent booksellers have called on the government to give small bookshops the same business rates relief as pubs as part of prime minister Andy Burnham’s plans to rid the high street of “vape shops, betting shops and rogue operators” 👇
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Bookshops call on PM Andy Burnham to offer them same tax relief as pubs
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If anyone needs yet another review of Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY, this, by Oxford don and poet A. E. Stallings in today’s TLS is pretty good.
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Tim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This was one of the bleakest articles I've ever had to write. For as bad as this year's weather has been, El Niño will ensure that next year is worse. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/enviro...
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Call this a hot summer? This phenomenon explains why next year may be worse
El Niño is yet to peak, bringing more heat to an already burning planet
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Well done @drmjwarren.bsky.social & @chiffchat.bsky.social andJames Fox & @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social shortlisted for @wainwrightprize.bsky.social 🥂 and thank you both for being part of our 2026 Festival this May www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
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Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If there’s one outcome I wanted for #TheCuckoosLea it’s that it will bring greater attention to the heritage of our ancient place-names which include a lot of nature! Making @wainwrightprize.bsky.social’s shortlist this year is validation of that aim. #naturewriting #PlaceNames #WainwrightPrize
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
During this year’s Chipping Campden Literature Festival an unintended message of hope emerged as the week progressed.
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our April production of Private Lives 🎭 with fab professional cast was huge success. To learn more about what we are doing in 2027 sign up to our newsletter: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Private Lives by Noel Coward After the huge success of the 2025 production of ‘Waiting For Godot’ Chipping Campden Literature mounted their second fully professional ‘In House’ production. This time with Noel Coward’s great play ‘Private Lives’.
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Below praise from some of our fantastic 2026 authors. Already planning 3-8th May 2027. Keep up to date with: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Thank you @chazzasteinway.bsky.social for two superbly written, original, funny, sad & important for today US novels💙📚 purchased from indie bookshop @borzoibookshop.bsky.social Elizabeth Strout: The Things We Never Say @vikingbooks.bsky.social & George Sanders: Vigil @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
📅 Save the date! The Chipping Campden Literature Festival 2027 … Monday 4th May - Saturday 8th May #literaturefestival #chippingcampden
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 09/06/2026
We’ve joined up with the Big Issue to help more people in the UK discover the joy of reading for pleasure. During 8-14 June, readers of the Big Issue can get a free download of the digital and audio editions of All Around the World: Stories by Booker Prize Writers with their copy of the magazine.
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Below just a few of our fantastic 2026 authors. Already planning 3-8th May 2027. Keep up to date with: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Some of our fantastic 2026 authors. For news about 2027 go on our festival mailing list: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
FREE @profilebooks.bsky.social 📚👇
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The Orwell Prize @orwellprize.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We are proud to announce the finalists for the 2026 Orwell Prize for Journalism. Congratulations all, and huge thanks to our panel @gregwilliams718.bsky.social (Chair), Nick Davies, @meenakshirv.bsky.social & @sayeedawarsi.bsky.social. Explore the shortlists: orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...
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The Orwell Prize @orwellprize.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We're proud to reveal the shortlist for the 2026 Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils, sponsored by @prospectmagazine.co.uk. Congratulations all + thanks to our dedicated judges: Philip Collins (Chair), @abbyabhaya.bsky.social, Amber Rudd & Mina Smallman. Find out more: bit.ly/4tyYohx
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The Orwell Prize @orwellprize.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We are proud to reveal the finalists for the 2026 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness. Congratulations all & thanks to our panel: Michael Gove (Chair), @sarahoconnorft.ft.com, @ligia-teixeira.bsky.social & @melyoung53.bsky.social @homelessnessimpact.bsky.social Find out more: bit.ly/4tyYohx
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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
👏👏👏 Well deserved @matthewcobb.bsky.social fab event with @timcoulson.bsky.social in Chipping Campden last week 👇
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