The full 2022 festival programme has just been released for this year’s 13th Marlborough LitFest from 29 September – 2 October. Over 40 events will take place in the historic market town over the festival weekend, with a mix of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children’s authors, literary events/workshops, outreach events and LitFest’s annual Big Town Read. The line-up includes 2022 GoldingSpeaker, Ali Smith, as well as Kamila Shamsie, Patrick Gale, Pam Ayres, Clover Stroud, Max Hastings, Benedict Allen and children’s author Jacqueline Wilson. Priority booking for Friends of LitFest opens on 4 July; general booking opens on 14 July. For more information, visit www.marlboroughlitfest.org