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Protectingwriters’ rightsALCS is an organisation run by writers for writers. We are dedicated to protecting and promotingauthors’ rights and are both delighted and honoured to be the founding sponsor of Marlborough LitFest,a festival committed to literature and putting writingfirst.

Find out more about the work we do for writers atwww.alcs.co.uk

Welcome to our third Marlborough Literature Festival.

Fiction is sometimes overlooked at festivals so we are delighted to bring to youa programme that contains much that is new and exciting in the world of authors’imaginations.

To highlight Marlborough’s long connection with the Nobel Laureate and BookerPrize winner, William Golding, and in collaboration with his family, each year there willbe a Golding Author. We are proud and delighted that our first in this category isHoward Jacobson, 2011 winner of the Man Booker Prize and writer of consistentlygreat fiction. Seriously funny might be a phrase coined to describe him.

Howard opens the Festival followed by Michael Frayn, Iain Banks, Aminatta Forna and a delightful tea withCapuchin Classics, a small publishing house dedicated to reviving neglected classic fiction. We have alsocollaborated with the Society of Authors to bring you the winner of the 2012 McKitterick prize – for authorspublishing their first book when they are over forty.

The Festival’s range this year is as wide as ever, including detective fiction, first novels, comic and serious writing,fiction for children and young adults, a nod to non-fiction with books about bicycles and swimming and visits toLibanus Press to see the world of fine book production at first hand. Of course – since it is the bicentenary of thebirth of one of our greatest ever writers of fiction, there will be a talk on Charles Dickens.

On Sunday evening, to round it all off, we are delighted that the modestly brilliant poet Simon Armitage hasagreed to leave his beloved Yorkshire and head for Marlborough. A terrific finale.

All in all, our third Festival continues to fulfil its undertaking to bring you the best of writers and writing and welook forward, very much, to seeing you there.

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Mavis CheekTo book tickets 01249 701628 www.marlboroughlitfest.org


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One of Marlborough’s best kept literary secrets.

Libanus Press is a book design partnership, working withmany publishers and national institutions. They design adiverse range of beautiful illustrated publications as wellas typesetting novels such as The Girl with the DragonTattoo.

How is a book made? What happens when the author’stext document arrives down the email? What does theeditor do? Who decides how many pages it will have?What’s the shape of the book? What’s to be on thejacket or cover? Do authors have a say? How muchdoes it cost to make a book?

The studio will have an exhibition of books designed bythe Press since it was established thirty years agoranging from letterpress-printed fine editions, exhibitioncatalogues and art books, to airport paperbacks. Andyou will be shown how they were made – from author’smanuscript to finished product.

So that everyone visiting can easily see what happensand understand the many processes involved, numbersare limited to ten for each of the two sessions. The tourlasts approximately one and a half hours.

(From the Town Hall, walk up Kingsbury Street and take the first right into Silverless Street)

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Tour of Libanus Press Tickets £8

LitFest has combined forces with the Wiltshire GlobalEducation Centre to organise a festival of international storytelling for primary school children.

A three tier event will bring the art of storytelling to life forhundreds of children.

Primary schools will begin by inviting members of theirlocal community to come in and tell stories from aroundthe world and each school will select the story they thinkwould be the most powerful to present at a 'Storyfest'.

A number of primary schools will then act as hosts for aStoryfest with schools from around the area comingtogether and presenting their stories to each other.

The Storytelling Fest will culminate at the LitFest on 28September with the partaking schools invited to the TownHall to hear performances given by nationally renownedchildren's storytellers Neil Griffiths and James Smith.

Neil Griffiths was made Director of the National LiteracyProject for the Basic Skills Agency and is an inspired andenergetic storyteller with numerous children’s books to hisname. James Smith was the headmaster of PreshutePrimary School.

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Storytelling for Primary Schools

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Chaired by Nicholas Fogg

2012 is the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens.As Marlborough has its own Dickens connection - TheBagman‘s Story in The Pickwick Papers - we thought itappropriate to celebrate and we are thrilled to welcomea true expert on the subject.

Having held the position of Curator of The DickensMuseum in Doughty Street - one of Dickens’s residences- for over twenty years, Dr David Parker is someone whohas truly absorbed the spirit of this greatest of Englishnovelists.

Once president of the Dickens Society, Dr Parker hasalso published numerous books, forewords andpapers on the author as well as lecturing extensivelyworldwide. He managed the Boz List, an e-mail notice-board for school students, and is regularly consulted forprogrammes on local, national and international televisionand radio.

Dr Parker taught English Literature at the University ofSheffield, the University of Malaya and the OpenUniversity and is an honorary research fellow atKingston University.

Nicholas Fogg is a former mayor of Marlborough,Shakespearian scholar and author.


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Chaired by Boyd Tonkin, The Independent

‘It’s important that we laugh a lot. The balance betweenlaughter and tragedy is what I’m about as a writer.’

In 2010 Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker Prizefor his novel The Finkler Question, the first comic novelto win the prize since Kingsley Amis's The Old Devils in1986. Could it be that we don’t revere humorous fictionin this country?

Jacobson, however, feels that comic writing is not aseparate genre and that great books have comedy neartheir centre - the essential element that lends itself tocomedy is tragedy. ‘The experience of 5,000 yearsshapes the Jewish sense of humour.’

Despite always wanting to be a writer, Jacobson wasnearly 40 before he really started and was the oldestauthor to win the Booker since William Golding in 1980.However, he had been shortlisted twice before and garnered many other prestigious trophies for novelssuch as Kalooki Nights and The Mighty Waltzer. His latestvolume is Zoo Time.

Recently Howard referred to himself as ‘a Jewish JaneAusten’ - ironic when he never expected to write comicnovels or write about Jewish people.

Boyd Tonkin is Literary Editor of The Independent andan award-winning journalist.

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Judith Kerr

Chaired by Brenda Williams

The Tiger Who Came to Tea was Judith’s first picturebook and was published in 1968. At the time it wasdescribed as ‘a dazzling first book,’ making children‘scream with delicious pleasure at the dangerousnaughtiness of the notion.’ Subsequently it has becomean undoubted classic, selling over five million copies,and rightly appearing in the Daily Telegraph’s list of topchildren’s books of all time.

Judith is also renowned for that other enduringly popularfeline creation, Mog, who has charmed generations ofchildren and starred in a whole stream of books.

Judith was born in Berlin in 1923 but escaped fromHitler’s Germany with her parents when she was nineyears old, passing through France and Switzerlandbefore arriving in London in 1936. The day after the familyleft Berlin, the authorities came to arrest them, andthroughout the war there was a price on her father’shead. Judith wrote about her experiences in her classicautobiographical story, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.

Judith also worked as an artist and televisionscriptwriter. She was married to Nigel Kneale, who diedin 2006, most famous for the hit sci-fi series -Quatermass. Judith’s latest book, published this year, isThe Great Granny Gang.


Tickets Children £3 Adults £7

Moira YoungTickets

Under 18’s £3 Adults £7

Chaired by Leslie Spencer

‘Better than The Hunger Games’ MTV’s Hollywood Crush

‘An astonishing debut novel which has us all hookedfrom beginning to the unpredictable end’ - Costa Awardjudges on Blood Red Road

Violence and passion characterise Rebel Heart, the middlevolume of Moira Young’s Dust Lands Trilogy. The firstvolume, Blood Red Road, won the Costa Children’sBook award 2011 and had the film rights snapped up byRidley Scott’s production company.

Featuring a refreshingly modern and strong-willed heroine,it portrays a brutal post-apocalyptic society, althoughthere is time for a terrifically spiky love story en route.

Saba is real – not portrayed in any way as perfect. Shebegins as selfish, petulant, and just generally unlikeablebut she undergoes extraordinary experiences andchanges to develop many redeeming traits.

Who am I? What do I believe? How can I make my lifemeaningful? We come up with different answers as wemature, learn and change. You have to grow up quicklyin Saba’s world.

Moira Young, originally from Canada, was an actress,comedian, opera singer, dancer and teacher beforebecoming a writer.

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Chibundu Onuzo Tickets £8

Hiscox Young Author’s Event. Chaired by Bidisha

Not only was Chibundu Onuzo the youngest writer eversigned by Faber & Faber, landing a two-book deal at theage of 19, but she also managed the subsequent twoyears of manuscript revisions whilst reading for a historydegree at King’s College, Cambridge. Now in her finalyear, she is working on her second novel.

Chibundu’s debut novel, The Spider King’s Daughter,explores issues of class and wealth in Lagos, a citywhere the gap between rich and poor is extreme, andtransports the reader right amongst the heat, smells,sounds and traffic of a sprawling metropolis.

When a girl from the privileged upper classes of Nigeriansociety buys an ice cream from a young street hawkerboth of their lives take a dramatic turn.

Chibundu’s influences from classic British fiction andAfrican fiction together with her understanding ofNigerian society make for a unique and compelling newstorytelling voice.

This event is chaired by the author Bidisha, writer forThe Guardian, Financial Times, Mslexia, The F Word,The Observer and The New Statesman. She currentlypresents the World Service arts programme, TheStrand, as well as various documentaries and series forBBC radio.


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Bella Bathurst & Susie Parr Tickets £8

Chaired by Annie Ashworth

The Bicycle Book doesn’t just confirm Bella Bathurst as an eminent chronicler of quirky subjects, it also fills a gap in the pantheon of cycling literature. Witha cornucopia of characters, machines, sport and society, she both looks back along the path of cycling’s history and speeds ahead to its future as a healthy,efficient, green and much-loved activity.

Whether you are a lycra-clad cycling fetishist, someone nostalgic for handlebars, bells and baskets or perhaps somewhere in between, this will be of tremendousinterest.

To continue the sporting theme we couple cycling with swimming and introduce Susie Parr.

The Story of Swimming is a chronological social history as well as a personal account of an addiction to outdoor swimming. By way of Romans, Tudorsand Victorians and with a cast that includes Byron, Shelley, Austen, Brooke and Woolf, we become submerged in fascinating anecdotes and meticulouslyresearched histories. We are also brought bang up to date with thrill-seeking wild swimmers as well as the best places to swim in the UK today. Lavishlyillustrated with woodcuts, engravings, cartoons, paintings and photographs, The Story of Swimming is a must for everyone who enjoys bathing out of doors.

Annie Ashworth is an author and Director of the Stratford Literary Festival.


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Chaired by Bidisha

Prejudice, hypocrisy and family life through childhood eyes but set within two different cultures, eras and locations.

Michele Hanson is one of the UK's wittiest and most popular columnists and was for 25 years a teacher in inner London. Her book Living with Motherwon the MIND book of the year in 2006.

What the Grown-ups Were Doing is a hilarious chronicle of Jewish family life in Fifties Metroland - Ruislip to be precise - where a shop front of respectabilitydisguises anxieties and antics. An evocative memoir of a childhood and coming of age in a Britain now long gone; post-war austerity into the fads andfashions of 'you've never had it so good'.

To contrast, Zaiba Malik takes us into 70s and 80s Bradford and the alienation and racism experienced by a child torn between two identities: ‘Muslim’and ‘British’. We Are A Muslim, Please was serialised on Radio 4’s Book of the Week.

The author is an award winning journalist who works extensively for BBC News and The World Service among others.

This event is chaired by Bidisha, journalist and author. Her fourth book is Beyond The Wall: Writing a Path through Palestine.


Zaiba Malik & Michele Hanson Tickets £8

CAPUCHIN PRESS“Books to keep alive”

Tea with Capuchin Press

Tickets £10(including Tea & Cake)

It’s good to see that independent houses continue toflourish. Perhaps you’d have to be mad to start off aventure such as this in a time of e-readers, but there isstill a large audience that loves real books.

A driving sense of discovery lies at the heart ofCapuchin: reviving great works of fiction which havebeen unjustly forgotten or neglected. This foundingethos - restoring a richness to the canon in an era of relative blandness - is complemented by a sprinkling ofwell-known favourites by authors such as NancyMitford, John Buchan and Tolstoy.

If a book is an object of beauty one is better disposedto reading it. If the writing is first rate then the reader’senjoyment should not be compromised by poor productionvalues. Capuchin Classics are beautifully produced withquality paper, clear typefaces and elegant covers. Theyare distinctive and pleasing to the eye and the touch,being smooth and good to feel and run one's hand over.Fortunately there are some areas where e-readers justcannot compete.

Enjoy some tea and cake while you listen to how theCapuchin team select lost classics and produce beautifulbooks.

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Chaired by Philip Hensher

In association with The Society of Authors, TheMcKitterick Prize of £4,000 is awarded annually for firstnovels by authors over 40. Previous winners includeHelen Dunmore and Mark Haddon.

The winner of The McKitterick Prize 2012 is Ginny Bailywith Africa Junction. Ginny Baily has won various prizes forher poetry and short stories. She is cofounder and co-editorof Riptide, a journal that champions the short story. Shehas lived and worked in both France and Italy and has longworked on the Africa Research Bulletin. Africa Junction isher first novel.

If you want to know how to write a first novel that winsprizes, come and hear Ginny Baily in conversation withauthor and journalist, Philip Hensher, her PhD tutor atExeter University.

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Iain Banks Tickets £10

‘Memory is what makes us. It’s a central theme. We areour memories.’

Iain Banks is the author of 26 novels (including sciencefiction works under the sobriquet Iain M Banks) and isbeloved by legions of fans. In 2008, The Times placedBanks in their list of The 50 Greatest British WritersSince 1945.

Iain once described himself as a lazy author but hissubstantial output rather disproves the notion - onaverage a book a year. But he only writes for a bit of theyear apparently spending three months doing absolutelynothing, three months thinking, three more planning andfinally the three where he actually writes.

He became a cult sensation with his debut The WaspFactory in 1984. The Crow Road was televised to greatacclaim in 1992 and Iain’s many other successesinclude Complicity, The Steep Approach To Garbadaleand the science fiction ‘Culture’ series.

The latest novel, Stonemouth, depicts a weekend’sreturn to an east coast Scottish port where corruption,drugs and gangster families create a sense of menacewhilst strangely maintaining an uneasy peace. In classicBanks style the mixing of memory with desire makes fora dangerous cocktail.

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The West End success of Michael Frayn's revivedNoises Off has secured the play for evermore in the boxmarked ‘Classic’. Indeed the Guardian described it as‘the best-loved farce of recent theatrical history’. NowMichael’s cold-war drama Democracy looks about tofollow suit with a run at The Old Vic.

Michael is also a fine comic novelist, perhaps in thetradition of Waugh, Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis.He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize with Headlongwhile Spies won the Whitbread Novel Award and hasfeatured in the national curriculum for schools.

The latest novel, Skios, is a return to farce and portraysthe anxiety of a well-ordered world thrown into chaos.This time the mistaken identities and situations are seton a sunlit Greek island.

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and beganhis career as a journalist on the Guardian and theObserver. Michael Billington recently wrote that Frayn‘must have the subtlest mind ever applied to the writingof farce.’

Richard T Kelly is an author. At last year’s MarlboroughLitFest he gave a memorably spine-tingling reading fromhis second novel, the deliciously dark The Possessionsof Doctor Forrest.


Creative Writing Workshop for Adults Tickets £25

With Stephen May

We are delighted to once more bring you some of thehighest quality creative writing workshops available, inpartnership with tutors from the Arvon Foundation.Arvon, the grandmother of creative writing courses, wasfounded by poets John Moat and John Fairfax in 1968.It practices the transformative power of writing.

Stephen May will be your tutor. He believes his prize-winning first novel Tag, which came out in 2008,benefited more from a week at Arvon than it did fromtwo years on his MA course. Stephen May’s secondbook is Life! Death! Prizes! He also writes for theatre andis the author of Getting Started in Creative Writing.

This creative writing course lasts two and a half hoursand will be intensive, challenging and highly rewarding.It’ll also be tremendous fun. Tea, coffee and biscuits willbe provided and there will be a halfway break. The sessionis limited to fifteen people, so hurry to secure your place.

Stephen is also talking about his own books alongsidefellow Arvon tutor Chris Wakling at 2.00pm in theAssembly Room, Town Hall. This is a separate event.

(Please park in the Parade Ground car park and then walk past Chapel to the main gates where

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With Chris Wakling

Due to popular demand, we are delighted to welcomeChris Wakling back to Marlborough for a third year. Heis one of the leading tutors of creative writing at theArvon Foundation.

‘Arvon is the single most important organisation forsharing and exploring creative writing in the UK’ - CarolAnn Duffy.

Chris is also Royal Literary Fund Fellow for Writing atThe University of Bristol and has led workshops innumerous secondary schools including St Paul’s Girls’School, North London Collegiate, Guildford Girls’School and Bristol Metropolitan Academy.

The creative writing course lasts two and a half hoursand will be intensive, challenging and highly rewarding.It’ll also be tremendous fun. Tea, coffee and biscuitswill be provided and there will be a halfway break. Thesession is limited to sixteen people, so hurry to secureyour place.

At 2.00pm Chris will be talking about his own work at aseparate event alongside fellow leading Arvon tutorStephen May in the Assembly Room, Town Hall.

(Please park in the Parade Ground car park and then walk past Chapel to the main gates where

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Poetry Cafe Tickets £6

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Chaired by John Richardson

Now in its third year, the Poetry Café is a much lovedevent at Marlborough LitFest.

Once again it will be hosted by Swindon’s BlueGatepoet and publisher, John Richardson. For your enjoymentJohn will be assembling a diverse range of poets fromSalisbury, Reading, Marlborough, Devizes, Swindon,Malmesbury, Hungerford, Bath and other locations.

This is a relaxed and informal session. It lasts approximatelytwo hours but you can drop in when you like if you can’tmake the whole session. Within three half-hour acts withan interval between each act there will be individualpoets performing as well as groups of poets. There arealways some surprises and last year’s event evenincluded some rather wonderful and unusual singing.

By way of an introduction, a programme of the event willbe available containing a sample poem from each of thepoets together with their brief biographies.

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Stephen and Chris are both leading tutors from the Arvon Foundation. They will be coming to talk about their own books having just run their respectiveCreative Writing Workshops at the festival. They share an uncanny ability to get inside the mindset of their narrators, whether children or otherwise, to producean utterly convincing voice.

Stephen May is a novelist, playwright and TV writer. His first novel TAG was one of ten books longlisted for Welsh Book of the Year and went on to winthe Media Wales Readers' Prize. He also wrote the best-selling Teach Yourself Creative Writing (Hodder and Stoughton) and his second novel Life! Death!Prizes! is just published.

'Energy, wit, bile – May can really write' - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian.

Chris Wakling’s highly acclaimed novels include Towards the Sun (as Christopher George), The Undertow, Beneath the Diamond Sky and On Cape ThreePoints. Last year he published two books: What I Did (John Murray) and The Devil’s Mask (Faber & Faber). He is a favourite at Marlborough having attendedall three festivals.

‘Gripping, hilarious, tender and a whole lot more, this is, without doubt, one of the books of the year’ - John Harding, Daily Mail on What I Did


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Nicola Upson and Simon Brett Tickets £8

Chaired by Tony Mulliken of Midas Public Relations

If you love crime fiction from The Golden Age, then you are in for a treat.

‘Nicola Upson's Josephine Tey mysteries are a class above the usual crime fiction’ The Independent

Fear in the Sunlight is the fourth in an atmospheric series featuring real-life detective fiction author Josephine Tey. She meets Alfred Hitchcock whose trickson the Portmeirion holiday party expose their deepest fears. These who-dunnits weave together expertly-researched settings, skilful sub-plots and infuriatingred-herrings worthy of Dorothy L Sayers.

Simon Brett needs little introduction to fans of the genre. He is surely our most prolific classic crime writer having crafted - incredibly - over 70 novels andplays, many featuring the sleuths Mrs Pargeter, Charles Paris or Carole Seddon and Jude.

Simon was educated at Dulwich College and Wadham College, Oxford, achieving a first in English. At the BBC, he produced the earliest Hitchhiker's Guideto the Galaxy episode, much of the cult comedy The Burkiss Way, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and panel game Just a Minute. The filmed version of A Shockto the System starred Michael Caine, After Henry showcased Prunella Scales and more recently Bill Nighy has played Charles Paris.


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Aminatta Forna Tickets £8

Chaired by Sarah Walker

Aminatta Forna was raised in both Sierra Leone andBritain, also spending periods of her childhood in Iran,Thailand and Zambia.

She is the author of two novels, Ancestor Stones andThe Memory of Love. The latter won theCommonwealth Writer's Prize Best Book Award 2011and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Aminatta’smemoir of her dissident father and Sierra Leone, TheDevil that Danced on the Water, was runner-up for theSamuel Johnson Prize 2003 and was BBC Radio 4’sBook of the Week.

The Memory of Love is about war, repression, love,obsession, mental illness and post-traumatic stress disorder. It raises key questions such as how can somepeople survive oppressive regimes while others disappear.

In 2003 Aminatta established the Rogbonko Project tobuild a school in a village in Sierra Leone where she nowoversees a number of endeavours in the spheres ofeducation, sanitation, maternal health and agriculture.

She has been BBC guest presenter on Open Book andSaturday Review and was recently appointed to theboard of The National Theatre.

Sarah Walker is a presenter for BBC Radio 3.

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Simon Armitage Tickets £10

Chaired by Mike Ponsford, Department of English,Marlborough College

Simon is the most popular and widely known poet of his1960s-born generation. His work has been continuallyanthologised and featured on radio and television.Simon’s streetwise language and serious artistic ambitionhave made his work a cornerstone of the NationalCurriculum. He has also written two novels, essays onthe north of England and work for TV, film and stage.

His numerous awards include The Sunday Times YoungAuthor of the Year, an Ivor Novello Award for song lyricsand several shortlistings for the T. S. Eliot Prize. He wasthe UK's official Millennium Poet, was elected a Fellowof the Royal Society of Literature and received a CBE inthe 2010 Birthday Honours. He is a vice president of thePoetry Society, a patron of the Arvon Foundation andwill be leading the Poetry Parnassus as part of theCultural Olympiad.

Simon’s popularity and status has been compared tothat of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes. Indeed Armitagelearnt much from his predecessors’ gritty dealings withlife’s shortcomings, but his fundamentally young, slangyand energetic voice is very much his own.

Simon Armitage lives in West Yorkshire, his birthplace.

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Litfest Café

Come and relax with us! Enjoy a literarycup of coffee, a glass of wine and aslice of delicious homemade cake in theLitFest Café. Browse at the bookstalland pick up some tickets at the FestivalBox Office. Test your literary knowledgewith our LitFest Quiz.

The Café is at the heart of the festivalaction. You’ll find it in the Court Roomon the ground floor of the Town Hall.The White Horse Bookshop will have aselection of titles by all the LitFestauthors. The Box Office will also beopen for last minute ticket sales.

This year the Café will host two events:a repeat of our successful Poetry Cafébetween 11.00am and 1.00pm onSunday, and Tea with Capuchin Pressat 3.30 on Saturday afternoon.

The LitFest Café will be open throughoutthe festival from 10.30 am to 8.00 pm.


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The Committee of the Marlborough Litfest would also like tothank the following for their very generous support:

• William Golding Limited• The Merriman Partnership• Fingal-Rock• Peter Page• Susie Fisher• The Merchant's House• St John's School• Marlborough College• Marlborough Library• Marlborough News Online• Wiltshire Global Education Centre• Pound Arts• The White Horse Bookshop• Reflex Productions• Alan Pryor• Paul Birkeland-Green

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The White Horse Bookshop sells LitFest tickets and helps promoteour authors. Please support your local bookshop.

We could not run Marlborough LitFest without the help of manyvolunteers, who work so hard both in the run up to and during thefestival. The Marlborough LitFest Committee would like to thankthem all enormously for their hard work and dedication to theLitFest.

If you would be interested in becoming a volunteer, please contactus at [email protected]

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The Town Hall - Assembly Room and Court Room A late Victorian building which dominates the east end of the High Street. TheAssembly Room is the main festival venue; The Court Room will be a bookshop and café for the weekend. Parking is available inthe High Street or in Waitrose car park (between the High Street and George Lane).

The Merchant's House is an outstanding 17th century building (listed grade II*) with unique wall paintings and an unspoilt interior.It belonged to a wealthy silk merchant, Thomas Bayly. The festival venue will be the Panelled Room with its elaborate fireplace and

glass sundial. The Merchant’s House is situated on the north side of the High Street, 100 yards from the Town Hall.

Libanus Press is located at Rose Tree House on Silverless Street, which is on the north side of The Green. From the Town Hallwalk up Kingsbury Street and take the first right turn into Silverless Street.

Theatre on the Hill, St John’s School This impressive new theatre is in St John’s School, Granham Hill. The school overlooks thetown of Marlborough. From the High Street by car, follow signs towards Pewsey and Oare and take the A345. At the top ofGranham Hill, look out for the sign to St John’s on your left. Parking is available and is a short walk from the theatre. The schoolcan also be accessed on foot from the town and is a 15-20 minute walk (some uphill) via George Lane and Duck’s Meadow.

Memorial Hall, Marlborough College From the High Street by car, head for the A4 westwards towards Calne and Devizes. Passunder a brick footbridge and ignore the main College gates on your left. After 150 metres, turn left into the College Parade Groundcar park. College students will direct you to the Memorial Hall from there - a very short walk. By foot, the College is a 15-20 minutewalk from the Town Hall.

Festival Café and Bookshop While the Festival is running there will be an informal café and bookshop in the Court Room of theTown Hall.

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Please note that all eventsexcept the workshops, ThePoetry Café and the visit toLibanus Press will run forapproximately 1 hour.

Online www.marlboroughlitfest.org

By telephone 01249 701628 through Pound Arts, £1 charge for cards plus 50p postage

In person The White Horse Bookshop 136 High Street, Marlborough. 01672 512071

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