Chipping Campden Literature Festival
@chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social
10/11 April Private Lives 4-10 May Literary Lunch, interviews & talks, film, jazz. History, Homer, nature, memoir, politics, fiction, poetry, cheffing, wine tasting. Main venue state of the art Cidermill Theatre
https://campdenmayfestivals.co.uk
https://campdenmayfestivals.co.uk
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10th-11th April Festival staging of professional production of Private Lives
4-9th May over 30 #book events inc film and live performance. Book online:
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
4-9th May over 30 #book events inc film and live performance. Book online:
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Our local indie bookshop @borzoibookshop.bsky.social see post👇
The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist is out! Explore this extraordinary collection and support independent bookshops. @womensprize.bsky.social 🏆 uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-20...
February 11, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Our local indie bookshop @borzoibookshop.bsky.social see post👇
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Last few balcony seats for my Stroud show this Thursday. Please do come
thesubrooms.co.uk/whats-on/joh...
thesubrooms.co.uk/whats-on/joh...
John Crace
Join us at The Sub Rooms in Stroud to see John Crace live on stage. Get your tickets here.
thesubrooms.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Last few balcony seats for my Stroud show this Thursday. Please do come
thesubrooms.co.uk/whats-on/joh...
thesubrooms.co.uk/whats-on/joh...
Congratulations 🥂 @womensprize.bsky.social Non-fiction authors #booksky
It’s time to reveal the 2026 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction longlist! A hopeful list, these are 16 books that reflect the belief that every woman’s voice has the power to elicit and inspire change: youtu.be/ScHiI1saMCY
The 2026 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist
YouTube video by Women's Prize
youtu.be
February 11, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Congratulations 🥂 @womensprize.bsky.social Non-fiction authors #booksky
After the huge success of our 2025 production of 'Waiting For Godot' we are very excited to be mounting our second fully professional 'In House' production. This time with Noel Coward's great play 'Private Lives' 🎭 Book online www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
February 11, 2026 at 12:52 PM
After the huge success of our 2025 production of 'Waiting For Godot' we are very excited to be mounting our second fully professional 'In House' production. This time with Noel Coward's great play 'Private Lives' 🎭 Book online www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
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The cat is out of the book bag!
The judges for the 2026 #Nibbies have been revealed 👏✨
Find out more here 👉 www.thebookseller.com/news/...
The judges for the 2026 #Nibbies have been revealed 👏✨
Find out more here 👉 www.thebookseller.com/news/...
February 11, 2026 at 11:01 AM
The cat is out of the book bag!
The judges for the 2026 #Nibbies have been revealed 👏✨
Find out more here 👉 www.thebookseller.com/news/...
The judges for the 2026 #Nibbies have been revealed 👏✨
Find out more here 👉 www.thebookseller.com/news/...
With us in May @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social to discuss #TheTraitorsCircle with @arusbridger.bsky.social 📚#booksky Tickets on line www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Meanwhile 👇
Meanwhile 👇
With fortuitous timing, here's my review of an illuminating new biography of a Labour prime minister www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
Gordon Brown by James Macintyre review – a very different kind of politician
A new biography reveals Brown to be a man of exceptional vision and probity – what a contrast with today’s politics
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:27 PM
With us in May @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social to discuss #TheTraitorsCircle with @arusbridger.bsky.social 📚#booksky Tickets on line www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Meanwhile 👇
Meanwhile 👇
James Fox in the magnificent #Cotswolds wool church of St James' in May to present #CRAFTLAND 📚#booksky Tickets on line www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
February 11, 2026 at 12:22 PM
James Fox in the magnificent #Cotswolds wool church of St James' in May to present #CRAFTLAND 📚#booksky Tickets on line www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Environmentalists and nature 🦅🦉🐾🦊 lovers great 📚#booksky afternoon events in #Cotswolds 7th May with @drmjwarren.bsky.social and @adamweymouth.bsky.social
Tickets online www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Tickets online www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
February 11, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Environmentalists and nature 🦅🦉🐾🦊 lovers great 📚#booksky afternoon events in #Cotswolds 7th May with @drmjwarren.bsky.social and @adamweymouth.bsky.social
Tickets online www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Tickets online www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
3.30pm Monday 4th May Justine Picardie presents Fashioning the Crown 👗👜👑 in the #Cotswolds 📚 #booksky Tickets on line: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
February 11, 2026 at 12:12 PM
3.30pm Monday 4th May Justine Picardie presents Fashioning the Crown 👗👜👑 in the #Cotswolds 📚 #booksky Tickets on line: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Below Robert Elms discusses 'Hard Streets: Working Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London’ Here's link to our event in May with author @jacriding.bsky.social + 3 Chaplin shorts with live piano accompaniment 📽️🎹📚 #booksky www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
London Uncovered - Charlie Chaplin's London - BBC Sounds
Charlie Chaplin grew up in working class Victorian London. What was the London he knew?
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Below Robert Elms discusses 'Hard Streets: Working Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London’ Here's link to our event in May with author @jacriding.bsky.social + 3 Chaplin shorts with live piano accompaniment 📽️🎹📚 #booksky www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Catch up with @edithmayhall.bsky.social #EpicOfTheEarth in #Cotswolds 4 May
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... Meanwhile 👇
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... Meanwhile 👇
Now on BBC Radio 4, the episode of YOU'RE DEAD TO ME on Hypatia that I contributed to bbc.com/audio/play/l...
February 11, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Catch up with @edithmayhall.bsky.social #EpicOfTheEarth in #Cotswolds 4 May
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... Meanwhile 👇
www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... Meanwhile 👇
2pm today! @womensprize.bsky.social NF longlist #booksky
At 2pm GMT this Wednesday 11 February, the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist will be revealed.
Ahead of then we want to know – if you were a judge, which non-fiction books would make your list?
#WomensPrize #WomensPrizeforNonFiction
Ahead of then we want to know – if you were a judge, which non-fiction books would make your list?
#WomensPrize #WomensPrizeforNonFiction
February 11, 2026 at 11:45 AM
2pm today! @womensprize.bsky.social NF longlist #booksky
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Thu 19 March - DAUNT BOOKS, Hampstead
In conversation with Katharine Norbury
dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...
In conversation with Katharine Norbury
dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...
Anuradha Roy in conversation with Katharine Norbury
Buy tickets for the event with Anuradha Roy in conversation with Katharine Norbury at Daunt Books Hampstead from Daunt Books today.
dauntbooks.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Thu 19 March - DAUNT BOOKS, Hampstead
In conversation with Katharine Norbury
dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...
In conversation with Katharine Norbury
dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...
If you missed @drmjwarren.bsky.social in Lincolnshire catch up with him in the #Cotswolds in May #booksky #nature 🦉 www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
A really lovely talk @lincswildlife.bsky.social’s Whisby reserve today. In the audience was Grahame Hopwood, just retired, warden for 22 years, devoting half a career to making Whisby superb nightingale habitat. Sadly, they no longer breed here. 😢 #nightingales #naturewriting
February 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
If you missed @drmjwarren.bsky.social in Lincolnshire catch up with him in the #Cotswolds in May #booksky #nature 🦉 www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
February 9, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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New on the Writer’s Bookshelf this morning: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the wonderful @jacriding.bsky.social.
The writer's bookshelf: Jacqueline Riding
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
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February 9, 2026 at 7:40 AM
New on the Writer’s Bookshelf this morning: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the wonderful @jacriding.bsky.social.
Book now to hear Justine Picardie present Fashioning the Crown in #Cotswolds Monday 4th May www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
'The Queen wasn't like anybody else. I found her self-possession remarkable.'
Justine Picardie on her new book, Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture, interviewed in the Sunday Times:
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...?
Justine Picardie on her new book, Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture, interviewed in the Sunday Times:
www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-fam...?
February 9, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Book now to hear Justine Picardie present Fashioning the Crown in #Cotswolds Monday 4th May www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
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Arrived in London ahead of our 3 days of theatre - first stop The Wyndham Theatre to see All My Sons 🎭
February 4, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Arrived in London ahead of our 3 days of theatre - first stop The Wyndham Theatre to see All My Sons 🎭
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Thank you to Year 11 for their enthusiasm at today’s Poetry Live event in Oxford, where we were lucky to see and hear a range of poets, including Carol Ann Duffy. We hope that ideas from the performances and Q & A sessions will feed into their writing and thinking about poetry.
February 6, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Thank you to Year 11 for their enthusiasm at today’s Poetry Live event in Oxford, where we were lucky to see and hear a range of poets, including Carol Ann Duffy. We hope that ideas from the performances and Q & A sessions will feed into their writing and thinking about poetry.
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Slavc continues his walkabout through winter and spring - come find us. Links to tickets in bio
January 28, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Slavc continues his walkabout through winter and spring - come find us. Links to tickets in bio
Stephen Bourne - ‘a hero of our history.’ Bernadine Evaristo - discusses pioneers of Black British theatre 🎭 From 1825 when Ira Aldridge played Othello - Cleo Laine: Shakespeare and All That Jazz. #booksky + Live jazz #JazzSky 🎷🎤 Tickets online: chippingcampden.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
February 6, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Stephen Bourne - ‘a hero of our history.’ Bernadine Evaristo - discusses pioneers of Black British theatre 🎭 From 1825 when Ira Aldridge played Othello - Cleo Laine: Shakespeare and All That Jazz. #booksky + Live jazz #JazzSky 🎷🎤 Tickets online: chippingcampden.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
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'If you want a healthy and harmonious civil society, invest in the humanities and the arts'
Jules Verne’s dystopia was a world without humanities. Don’t let his nightmare come true, writes Elif Safak
https://bit.ly/4a0ROtL
Jules Verne’s dystopia was a world without humanities. Don’t let his nightmare come true, writes Elif Safak
https://bit.ly/4a0ROtL
Jules Verne’s dystopia was a world without humanities. Do...
When arts education is dismissed as a waste of time it damages us as a society. The focus of learning is not just to enrich our economy but also to enrich our souls
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February 6, 2026 at 1:12 PM
'If you want a healthy and harmonious civil society, invest in the humanities and the arts'
Jules Verne’s dystopia was a world without humanities. Don’t let his nightmare come true, writes Elif Safak
https://bit.ly/4a0ROtL
Jules Verne’s dystopia was a world without humanities. Don’t let his nightmare come true, writes Elif Safak
https://bit.ly/4a0ROtL
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Continuing my mammalian temporary departure from birds, place-name of the day 126 is FOXCOTE (Som). OE fox + cot. ‘Cottage for the foxes’ (probably metaphorically referring to den). #PlaceNames #naturewriting
February 6, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Continuing my mammalian temporary departure from birds, place-name of the day 126 is FOXCOTE (Som). OE fox + cot. ‘Cottage for the foxes’ (probably metaphorically referring to den). #PlaceNames #naturewriting
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Aldus Manutius died #otd in Venice in 1515. His ´enchiridia’, a small handheld portable book format, revolutionized reading habits and paved the way for modern paperbacks. Here are images of a copy of his ‘Hero et Leander’ now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Auct. 1R 5.13.
#books #bookhistory #libraries
#books #bookhistory #libraries
Bodleian Library Auct. 1R 5.13
View high resolution digitized images of Bodleian Library Auct. 1R 5.13 Hero et Leander
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
February 6, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Aldus Manutius died #otd in Venice in 1515. His ´enchiridia’, a small handheld portable book format, revolutionized reading habits and paved the way for modern paperbacks. Here are images of a copy of his ‘Hero et Leander’ now @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Auct. 1R 5.13.
#books #bookhistory #libraries
#books #bookhistory #libraries
Out yesterday #booksky #HARDSTREETS @profilebooks.bsky.social In the #Cotswolds ? Get your copy
@borzoibookshop.bsky.social Author @jacriding.bsky.social with us 7.30pm 6 May Tickets online: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
@borzoibookshop.bsky.social Author @jacriding.bsky.social with us 7.30pm 6 May Tickets online: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
Welcome to the hard streets of Charlie Chaplin's London.
#HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is out today, breathing life into the forgotten stories of suffering, survival and success in late 19th and early 20th century working-class London.
profilebooks.com/work/hard-st...
#HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is out today, breathing life into the forgotten stories of suffering, survival and success in late 19th and early 20th century working-class London.
profilebooks.com/work/hard-st...
February 6, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Out yesterday #booksky #HARDSTREETS @profilebooks.bsky.social In the #Cotswolds ? Get your copy
@borzoibookshop.bsky.social Author @jacriding.bsky.social with us 7.30pm 6 May Tickets online: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...
@borzoibookshop.bsky.social Author @jacriding.bsky.social with us 7.30pm 6 May Tickets online: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...