Marlborough LitFest has announced that Sarah Perry, Robert Peston and Martin Sixsmith will join LitFest Patron Sir Simon Russell Beale, Celia Imrie, Robert Hardman and Zeinab Badawi at this year’s 15th festival from 26 – 29 September 2024.
Marlborough LitFest celebrates its 15th year in 2024 and the festival programme is currently being put together to provide an exciting mix of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children’s authors and free family activities over the festival weekend.
The full programme will be available in late June with priority booking from 1 July and general ticket sales from 11 July.
For fans of the international bestseller, The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry will be appearing at this year’s festival on Saturday 28 September to talk about her new novel, Enlightenment. Set once more in the murky marshes and big skies of estuarine Essex, it tells a story of love and astronomy over the course of 20 years through the lives of two improbable best friends.
As an award-winning political and economics reporter with over 20 years’ experience in the field, Robert Peston is well placed to provide some light literary relief on his chosen subjects. The author of acclaimed non-fiction books including How Do We Fix This Mess?, Who Runs Britain? and WTF?
His latest novel, The Crash, is the second book to feature the main protagonist, Gil Peck. Set in 2007, high finance is the background to a taut thriller that takes us back to that terrifying time when the world economy was truly teetering on the brink. Peston will be appearing at LitFest on Saturday 28 September.
With the war in Ukraine at a critical stage, the latest book by Martin Sixsmith, Putin and the Return of History, gives an original history of Russia’s 1,000-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin’s politics and rekindled the Cold War.
Sixsmith is a bestselling author, television and radio presenter and journalist, who reported on the presidencies of Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev as the BBC’s Moscow correspondent. He will be appearing at LitFest on Sunday 29 September.
Genevieve Clarke, Festival Chair, said: “We’re thrilled to have another crop of big names to announce and there are more to come. We hope that regular audience members will consider becoming a Friend of LitFest to make sure that they get priority booking this year.”
For more information and regular 2024 festival programme updates, see www.marlboroughlitfest.org
Sign up to become a Friend of Marlborough LitFest to receive priority booking for the 2024 festival as well as receive a festival brochure in the post.
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