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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 1d

Monica Feria-Tinta in @prospectmagazine.co.uk article below will be at our Festival in May
Festival goers sign up for our newsletter #book events www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · Aug 7

If corporations can be legal persons, why not rivers?

Heather Brooke explores the new movement to recognise the rights of nature, as exemplified by the brilliant, tireless work of barrister Monica Feria-Tinta: www.prospectmagazine...

Serving life: an interview with Monica Feria-Tinta

There’s a growing movement to protect the rights of nature. We speak to a paragon of this difficult work, the barrister Monica Feria-Tinta

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 1d

Hi @adamweymouth.bsky.social
Just sharing www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/s...

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Jimena Gorráez @jimenagorraez.bsky.social · 1d

I can't wait for Monday's episode of BBC R4 A Good Read where our beloved (and scandalous) BEAR by Marian Engel will be discussed.
‘A bizarre but strangely uplifting book about a woman’s quest for freedom . . . the perfect escapist yet intellectual read.’ The Times
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Sarah Waters and Walter Murch

Novelist Sarah Waters and film editor Walter Murch share favourite books.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 1d

Just sharing our Baillie Gifford Prize news. Expecting sell out for these three events. To get priority booking visit our website support us page: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/s...

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 4d

One of our Fab 2025 authors @kitdewaal.com who was interviewed by the amazing @megster.bsky.social is at www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org 11th Oct

Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 5d

I'll be at Birmingham Literature Festival on 11th October with some great names, brilliant writing workshops, events for children and much more.

Come if you can!

Link here www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org

Photo of Birmingham Literature Festival audience, young people, middle aged people and older people sitting in seats listening to an event.

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Gill Hughes @gillhughes.bsky.social · 5d

Only just read this amazing book by @kitdewaal.com but savoured every page and didn’t want it to end. Now I want to devour all her writings #books #KitDeWaal #writers

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 4d

👏👏👏 Well done @durham.ac.uk👇
And looking forward to hearing @edithmayhall.bsky.social #EpicOfTheEarth @yalepress.bsky.social at our Festival in May
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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 11d

Prestigious Northern Uni Durham Crowned Britain’s University Of The Year 2025 By the Sunday Times timeout.com/uk/news/the-... So glad to work here

This prestigious northern uni was crowned Britain’s ‘University of the Year 2026’

The uni rankings are out – so, who’s top of the class?

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 4d

Adam Weymouth #LoneWolf author below
talking at our Festival in May 2026.
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Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 4d

Great example from @davidmacdougall.bsky.social of how wolves so easily & frequently bleed into human politics. "The suggestion that Putin is responsible for the upsetting of the natural order...feeds a common Finnish narrative that nothing good comes from Russia."

www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Far from the front line, Putin’s war unleashes a pack of killers

Mass conscription of the Russian hunters who live along the border with Finland has left reindeer herders fearing for the lives of their animals

www.thetimes.com

Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 4d

Have you signed up for our newsletter yet to find out about our May 2026 #book events?

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Borzoi Bookshop @borzoibookshop.bsky.social · 4d

It’s Independent Bookshop Day on Saturday 11th October which gives us a good excuse to celebrate with an author signing, and cake and fizz for our lovely customers. This year we have author S W Perry signing copies of his new books, Cairo Gambit and Berlin Duet. @swperry.bsky.social

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 4d

And three of them will be with us May 2026! 😀
Festival goers sign up for our newsletter about our 2026 #book events www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 4d

ICYMI: Jason Burke, Helen Garner, Richard Holmes, Justin Marozzi, Adam Weymouth and Frances Wilson have been shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 👇 #BookSky

'Eunuchs, pirates, horny wolves, terrorists': Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 shortlist revealed

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations justinmarozzi and
Allen Lane Books 🥂 CAPTIVES AND COMPANIONS
Justin one of three 2025 Bailey Gifford Prize shortlist who will be with us in May 2026
Festival goers sign up for our newsletter #book events www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations @adamweymouth.bsky.social 🥂

Looking forward to seeing you in May
Festival goers sign up for our newsletter to find out about our 2026 #book events?

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Adam Weymouth @adamweymouth.bsky.social · 6d

Gosh. Been trying to write something coherent for a bit but I‘m basically just really excited.

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 🥂 We're thrilled too! Looking forward to meeting Frances Wilson in May. Festival goers sign up for our newsletter to find out about our 2026 #book events.

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Bloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social · 6d

🎉 We are thrilled that ELECTRIC SPARK has been shortlisted for the 2025 Ballie Gifford Prize ⚡️

Huge congratulations to Frances Wilson, and all the other shortlisted authors.

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 5d

HAT TRICK! 3 of our 2026 Festival authors on this shortlist! Congratulations all 6 👏👏👏
Festival goers sign up for our newsletter to find out about our 2026 #book events?

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 6d

ICYMI: Jason Burke, Helen Garner, Richard Holmes, Justin Marozzi, Adam Weymouth and Frances Wilson have been shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 👇 #BookSky

'Eunuchs, pirates, horny wolves, terrorists': Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 shortlist revealed

ebx.sh

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Jimena Gorráez @jimenagorraez.bsky.social · 14d

It might be the end of the Booker journey for MISINTERPRETATION by Ledia Xhoga but it has been a wonderful ride.
Huge congratulations to the shortlisted authors and publishers!

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 13d

Visit creativecampden.co.uk/whatson and view Whats On in Chipping Campden over the next few months
📚🎭🎥🎹👏👏👏

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megster.bsky.social @megster.bsky.social · 15d

Can’t wait for the May festivals in Chipping Campden. They have some really amazing events planned but you’ll have to wait for the full programme to be announced to find out! 🤫

Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 15d

Lovely catch up yesterday with fab festival interviewer – the one and only @megster.bsky.social
Have you signed up for our newsletter yet to find out about our 2026 #book events?

www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

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Jimena Gorráez @jimenagorraez.bsky.social · 29d

Manchester friends! Come say hello as I'd be taking part in this event at the @institutocervantes.bsky.social Manchester on Fri 26 September, 6pm. I'll be discussing the challenges and importance of publishing literature in translation from Spanish.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translatin...

Translating Hispanic Literatures in the UK: a conversation with publishers

Join us in celebrating International Translation Day 2025 with a conversation on publishing foreign literature in the UK

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Jimena Gorráez @jimenagorraez.bsky.social · 29d

Really pleased to share the preview of our Spring 2026 list! New books by Elisa Shua Dusapin, an exciting essay anthology on islands, phenomenal non-fiction by Anuradha Roy and Fatima Bhutto, reissues to die for and a lot more.
dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/spring-2026-...

Spring 2026 Preview | Daunt Books Publishing

JANUARY Called By the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya by Anuradha Roy | Non-fiction | £11.99 | 15 January 2026 When novelist Anuradha Roy and her husband stumble upon a derelict cottage in Ranikhet, the...

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Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social · 20d

My new book - #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power - in good company in the window of @hatchards.bsky.social bookshop, London, with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social, James Fox and Harry Sidebottom.

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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · Sep 2

I was interviewed by Ian HIslop on Radio 4 today about Juvenal but forgot all about having recorded it. It's short, fun and here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes - Series 2 - Mother-in-Law Jokes - BBC Sounds

Ian Hislop returns to unearth the oldest examples of five varieties of British joke.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 23d

What have the Ancient Greeks got to do with the environmental crisis? Book your free ticket to come hear from @edithmayhall.bsky.social on this topic at our Late on Thursday 9th Oct. Plus loads more panels, a zine making workshop and exhibits
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...

Living with the planet LATE

Tackle big questions and explore bold ideas about the future of our planet in this season’s British Academy Late. Immerse yourself in the sounds and music of the rainforests of Papua New Guinea; discu...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Carol Drinkwater @carol4olivefarm.bsky.social · 25d

If you're in Paris between 26th - 30th September, go to the Caumartin cinema, 101 rue saint-Lazare in the 9th. My husband is hosting a marvellous festival of Chinese documentary films. The films are surprising, informative, magnificently shot. True windows on modern China. Not to be missed.

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Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social · 15d

Lovely catch up yesterday with fab festival interviewer – the one and only @megster.bsky.social
Have you signed up for our newsletter yet to find out about our 2026 #book events?

www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

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