Crammed into a Donegal cottage with 20 others, watching Brian Friel’s TRANSLATIONS performed where it’s set… @katemaltby.bsky.social travels to the northwestern Irish border to explore why the late playwright’s work is newly popular:

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"We Refugees" by Benjamin Zephaniah We can all be refugees Sometimes it only takes a day Sometimes it only takes a handshake Or a paper that is signed ... We can all be refugees Nobody is safe All it takes is a mad leader Or no rain to bring forth food

Delighted that Charlotte Whittle with us in May 2026 to discuss English translation of @irenevalmore.bsky.social's Consolations @hodderbooks.bsky.social Sign up for our newsletters to find out more about our May #book events: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

Delighted that Nicola Moorby is bringing #TurnerandConstable @yalebooks.bsky.social to the #Cotswolds in May Sign up for our newsletters to find out about our May 2026 #book events: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

"Times are hard for indie presses – but they are also leading the way in agility and resourcefulness" @thebookseller.com recent Comment piece. 2026 event: indie @borzoibookshop.bsky.social & @dauntbookspub.bsky.social's @marigoldatkey.bsky.social www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/a...

ICYMI: Times are hard for indie presses – but they are also leading the way in agility and resourcefulness, says Bridget Shine in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky

Sticking Place Books publishes David Robinson’s "Charles Chaplin’s The Freak: The Story of an Unfinished Film". This edition presents Chaplin’s last, unfinished film for the first time to English-speaking readers—a project that has long intrigued Chaplin fans. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

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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

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

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...

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...

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

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

👏👏👏 Well done @durham.ac.uk👇 And looking forward to hearing @edithmayhall.bsky.social #EpicOfTheEarth @yalepress.bsky.social at our Festival in May Sign up for our newsletter to find out about our 2026 #book events? www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

Adam Weymouth #LoneWolf author below talking at our Festival in May 2026. Sign up for our newsletter to find out about our 2026 #book events? www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

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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

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

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

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? www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

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. www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

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? www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

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!

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

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! 🤫

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...

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-...

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.

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/...

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...

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.

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

The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) urgent appealing to children’s authors, writers and publishers to donate stories to its new bedtime stories app. The charity relies on stories in the public domain but are running out of books. Anyone willing to donate should contact [email protected].

Which great authors will be in this amazing space in May 2026? 🗞️ Have you signed up for our newsletter yet? www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

🐶 🐾 🐕 ✍️ 🐶 We are having the most fantastic event in the shop on Saturday 27th September (from 11am) with illustrator Harriet Lowther. 🐶 Harriet will be signing copies of her book and if you buy a copy of the book she will draw a  portrait of your dog. She can work from a real-life dog or photo

Borzoi Recommends…Craft Land by James Fox From wheelwrights to silversmiths, Fox takes a tour of Britain in pursuit of some of the last remaining master craftspeople at work today in this exploration of how crafts are interwoven with national identity.

🗞️ Have you signed up for our newsletter yet? www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter Two of our May 2025 Festival writers @arusbridger.bsky.social & @lionelbarber.bsky.social on #Trump 👇

Historian Peter Frankopan’s acclaimed books include The Earth Transformed, named as The Times History Book of the Year. The Silk Roads was a No. 1 Bestseller. 🙏 Thanks, Peter. 🗞️ Have you signed up for our newsletter yet? www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/newsletter

Thank you @doubledaybooks.bsky.social look what's just arrived!

'The Odyssey, with its stinks and stenches, its pigsties and drugged dinner parties, its beggars and bards, is not so high-flown as the Iliad.' A. E. Stallings: The epic of homecoming in a new translation

Hey @jacriding.bsky.social looking forward to seeing you in May

We give it 5 👇 😊

🌟 2026 Programme Reveal! 🌟 We are thrilled to give you the first preview of the 2026 Festival programme and an invitation to sign up as a Patron or Friend for 2026 to benefit from priority booking.  Become a Patron or Friend and receive priority booking: [email protected]

Wow look what arrived in the post yesterday! #paulajaynebyrne #SixWeeksByTheSea: The Summer #JaneAusten fell in love❤️ Fab late summer read 😎 Thank you @harpercollins.bsky.social

Congratulations to 🥂 #FrancesWilson Electric Spark @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social has made @bailliegifford.bsky.social Longlist

Congratulations @adamweymouth.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 🥂

Always interesting to see what’s on this longlist. We have been delighted to feature many @bgprize authors in our festival programmes in the past. @bailliegifford.bsky.social

Always a bit nervous for first book reviews and particularly when I saw this one was by Prof. Christopher Andrew who worked with Mitrokhin so something of a relief to read it......the picture (from the book) is of Mitrokhin and his son during their exfiltration. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...