What a brilliant first day at #BuckLitFest! 🌞📚 Creative workshops, thought-provoking talks, beautiful live music... Friday gave us the perfect start to the Festival Weekend. 📸 Swipe through for highlights from: 🗺️ Tim Marshall unpacking geopolitics in Prisoners of Geography 🧠 Rafael Behr sharing hard-won wisdom in Politics: A Survivor’s Guide - in convo with @mattewstadlen 🐎 @louis.d.hall's epic storytelling of crossing Italy on horseback - in convo with @sueturbett 🎼 A poetic and musical close to the day with Chris Tutton & @annedenholmblair_harp’s Imaginary Landscapes 🍛 A delicious dinner at @dipaleelounge. L-R Louis D Hall, Andrew Ziminski, Matt Stadlen, Christopher Woodhead. 🖋️ Claire Steele’s creative writing workshops Plus plenty of sunshine, bookish buzz and festival spirit around the beautiful @uniofbuckingham campus! See you today for Day 2 - we’ve got Susie Dent, Malcolm Rifkind, Kathy Slack, Daniel Aubrey & Jo Callaghan, Ed Tudor Pole and more! 👉 Link in bio for tickets #Buckingham #LiteraryFestival #AuthorEvents #Festival #DiscoverBuckingham #Bookstagram #WhatsonBuckingham (fb)

🎉 BuckLitFest Weekend starts today! 🎉 We’re thrilled to welcome readers, writers, speakers and story-lovers to Buckingham for three brilliant days of books, ideas and conversation. Today’s highlights include: 🖋️ Travel & character writing workshops with Claire Steele 🌍 Tim Marshall on Prisoners of Geography 🗳️ Rafael Behr on surviving modern politics 🐎 Louis D Hall’s moving memoir of friendship and healing 🎶 Poetry & harp with Chris Tutton and Anne Denholm-Blair ...and much more to come! 🗓 13-15 June 📍 @UniOfBuckingham 👉 Programme & tickets via link in bio #Buckingham #LiteraryFestival #Books #WhatsOnBuckingham #BucksEvents #TimMarshall #RafaelBehr #LouisDHall #AnneDenholm #ChrisTutton #CreativeWriting (fb)