📚 A festival with a purpose. Thank you to everyone who has bought a ticket for this year’s Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival. Your support means we can deliver our inspiring community activities, focused on spreading a love of books and reading across East Devon. We believe in the power of books to change lives - not just during festival week, but all year round. Here’s a snapshot of how your support helped us to work in the community last year: ✨ 1,787 children met professional authors as part of our school visits 📖 840 books were donated to school libraries 🏫 20 schools engaged with our author visits 📝 Young writers took part in free creative workshops 🎨 Families enjoyed hands-on activities from just £2 a ticket We’re proud to support literacy and creativity across East Devon - from spoken word sessions for teens to community book boxes and backing for our local library. Every ticket you buy helps us bring the joy of reading to more people in our community and we look forward to seeing you in Budleigh this September. www.budlitfest.org.uk #BudleighSalterton #BudleighSaltertonLiteraryFestival (fb)

Join Paula Hawkins , bestselling author of The Girl on the Train, and Chris Chibnall, Broadchurch creator and debut novelist, for a gripping conversation at this September’s festival. Paula will present her masterful novel The Blue Hour alongside Chris, who is a BAFTA nominated screenwriter and author of one of the year’s most exciting debut novels, Death at the White Hart. They’ll talk about the art of writing a nail-biting plot, the importance of place in their new books, the differences between writing for page and for screen and the enduring appetite for thrillers the twistier, it seems, the better. 🎭 Expect sharp insight, dark tension and plenty of plot twists (off the page too). Appearing at the Public Hall, 6pm on Friday, September 19. Visit www.budlitfest.org.uk #PaulaHawkins #BudleighSalterton #BudleighSaltertonLiteraryFestival (fb)