Now: “What’s a newspaper, Dad?”

🧑‍🎨 In stock! Artist Michael Henry Harrison, born in 1948, spent his life travelling & painting with his wife Pink.  In this beautiful book Pink gathers a collection of Michael’s paintings interwoven with personal reflections. 🎫 Pink will be speaking at @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social

Four of our 2026 authors wrote Economist Best Books 2025: @franceswilson.bsky.social @adamweymouth.bsky.social @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social @matthewcobb.bsky.social Festival Booking from 1 Feb www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... All 📚 #booksky available @borzoibookshop.bsky.social

How do you steal the most secret, heavily guarded archive in the world? Find out 10.30am Mon 4 May from @gordoncorera.bsky.social in conversation with @arusbridger.bsky.social #booksky General booking from 1 Feb www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

Tailleferre book launch with correct link, I hope! @aoyarzabal.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/germaine-t...

there's a local character who, whenever I tell him my name, cries, without fail, 'THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY'. Well, anyone, in the darling days of May (sun! greenery!) I'll be @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social talking to Sarah Dennis @borzoibookshop.bsky.social, with beloved Fatima Bhutto zooming in:

Coincidentally, I had the honour to walk behind a beautiful ghost-horse of a borzoi just yesterday. Fatima Bhutto will be talking about The Hour of the Wolf over zoom on 06 May nb!

Hi @booksky.club for anyone who missed our 2025 Fest see highlights below. To view our April/May 2026 events www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... General booking from 1st Feb

Good news below from @timsmedley.bsky.social who was with us in 2024 and here's our 2026 line up: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... General booking from 1st Feb

Thank you Jimena @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for 2026 Fest copy of #TheHouroftheWolf. Looking forward to welcoming @marigoldatkey.bsky.social to #Cotswolds 6 May for Zoom with Fatima Bhutto + Sarah Dennis @borzoibookshop.bsky.social General booking 1 Feb www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

Sponsors & Patrons Bookings are now open - huge number of bookings already! Friends Bookings open on January 19th, General bookings February 1st www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

Don't miss our 5th May Lit Lunch guest author @carol4olivefarm.bsky.social actress (Helen Herriot All Creatures Great and Small) and film-maker talking about her latest novel Places limited. Reservations only with Cotswold House Hotel 01386 840330 Hurry, hurry, hurry 🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

If you can't make LWT Whisby nature reserve 7th Feb #cuckooslea catch up with @drmjwarren.bsky.social in #Cotswolds 7th May. General booking opens 1st Feb www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

Art lovers in #Cotswolds @nicolamoorby.bsky.social discusses Turner and Constable: Life, Art, Landscape with @megster.bsky.social 4 May General booking opens Feb 1st www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... Meanwhile @lauracummingart.bsky.social on Tate exhibition 👇

Kit De Waal @kitdewaal.com will join us for a Book Club event to discuss her novel 'The Best of Everything' on Thursday, the 22nd of January. To register, please go to: launch.dcu.ie/49gv3A8

Open to emerging writers aged 25+, the Spirit of Adventure prize welcomes short pieces of stand-alone prose in either Fiction or Non-Fiction (1,500 - 3,000 words) Closes 31st March. Details in link. Please share :)

New out in paperback! Our bookseller, Rachel says that Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman changed her life. @rutgerbregman.com

National Book Tokens is proudly supporting #NationalYearOfReading2026. Books are gateways to every interest, fandom, curiosity, and ambition. We want everyone to feel the joy of discovering stories, and to make books part of every moment that matters. ▶️ buff.ly/6UCVMaf #GoAllIn2026

I spy No 1 The Traitors Circle 👇 #Booksky @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social with us in May General booking opens 1st Feb www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

If you do nothing else, pick ip this book and read the Bibliography- you will know the work that went into telling these stories of Nazi resistance

4 May @matthewcobb.bsky.social discusses #Crick with @timcoulson.bsky.social General booking opens 1st Feb www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e... 👇

General booking opens 1st Feb www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

There’s so much to look forward to in @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social ❤️

Good luck to James Fox at the Nero Awards tomorrow. James will be speaking at this year’s literature festival.

Congratulations 🎊 to @jessicaduchen.bsky.social - awarded the Presto Music Awards for her book, Myra Hess National Treasure. Jessica will be speaking at this year’s festival.

Four of our speakers this year were named as Economist Best Books 2025. Congrats to them all. Electric Spark by @franceswilson.bsky.social Lone Wolf by @adamweymouth.bsky.social The Traitors Circle by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social

If you love TURNER & CONSTABLE, RIVALS & ORIGINALS exhibition at Tate don't miss 4th May Nicola Moorby discussing with @megster.bsky.social Turner and Constable @yalebooks.bsky.social in #Cotswolds General booking opens 1st Feb www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

4th May Two great events. General booking opens 1st Feb www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

4th May @gordoncorera.bsky.social discusses The Spy in the Archive with @arusbridger.bsky.social General booking opens 1st Feb www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

4th May Epic of the Earth with @edithmayhall.bsky.social General booking opens 1st Feb campdenmayfestivals.co.uk

Hi @essentialfilms.bsky.social General booking from 1 Feb campdenmayfestivals.co.uk

4th May @matthewcobb.bsky.social will be discussing Crick with @timcoulson.bsky.social in our main venue state of the art Cidermill Theatre. General booking opens 1st Feb campdenmayfestivals.co.uk

I spy Rasputin! 9th May Antony Beevor in #Cotswolds May 4-10th interviews & talks, silent movies, jazz. History, Homer, nature, memoir, politics, football, fiction, poetry, cheffing, wine tasting. Main venue state of the art Cidermill Theatre. General booking opens 1st Feb campdenmayfestivals.co.uk

Really looking forward to this event with @jacriding.bsky.social @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social

7th May @drmjwarren.bsky.social below will be in #Cotswolds taking about The Cuckoo's Lea. General booking from 1st Feb campdenmayfestivals.co.uk

If you can't make 19 Feb at Southwark Cathedral catch up with amazing historian @jacriding.bsky.social in the #Cotswolds discussing Charlie Chaplin's London with @megster.bsky.social 7.30pm 6 May at state of the art Cidermill Theatre. General booking from 1st Feb campdenmayfestivals.co.uk

Alan Rusbridger below will be interviewing for us in May. 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 campdenmayfestivals.co.uk

observer.co.uk/news/interna... Fantastic article by William Boyd. Catch up with William in May when he will be speaking about his latest spy thriller The Predicament www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

Yay! @borzoibookshop.bsky.social now stocking Pink Harrison's Michael Henry Harrison: An Artist's Life. Pink will be with us in May. 10th-11th April Festival Production Private Lives 4-9th May over 30 #book events inc film and live performance www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

Bookings open this month for Friends & Patrons and there is still time to become one! Visit our website and follow the link… www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

Time to refresh your knowledge of American History? Catch up with historian Simon Jenkins in the Cotswolds in May 10/11 April Festival production Private Lives 4-10 May over 30 fab book events: interviews & talks, silent film, live jazz, poetry, wine tasting. campdenmayfestivals.co.uk

10th-11th April Festival Production Private Lives 4-9th May over 30 written word events: fiction, translation, non-fiction, poetry, essays, inc film and live performance www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

Good to see The Ballad of Peckham Rye! Frances Wilson will be with us in May to discuss her biography Electric Spark. View over 30 #book events inc film and live performance on this link: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

Winter Solstice night 2025 in a church on the marsh. A little belated, but just now had chance to edit my video. In aid of my current book project, titled Hibernal. Hope you enjoy! Happy New Year all. #WinterSolstice #WinterLover #naturewriting

12 gods with interesting modes of transport for Xmas #9. Demeter/Ceres. In ancient Greek art she's always letting her mentee Triptolemus ride the snake-drawn winged car to sow the crops, but in the 18th century she got to ride it herself, having apparently been confused with Medea!

Many thanks @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social looking forward to it!

Fantastic read: Hard Streets @profilebooks.bsky.social publication date Feb 5th author @jacriding.bsky.social with us in May Sponsors & Patrons Bookings open January 12th, Friends Bookings on January 19th, General bookings February 1st www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

Before we say goodbye to the year, we take a moment to remember the Fellows who we have sadly lost during 2025 – and the lasting legacies they leave. David Lodge Allan Ahlberg Tom Stoppard Joanna Trollope You can find out more about their work on our website. buff.ly/8fjGwN0

Meet @edithmayhall.bsky.social in Cotswolds in May General bookings February 1st View full programme here: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...