The Borders Book Festival is delighted to announce that no less a towering figure than Dame Margaret Drabble will be coming to Melrose to talk about her latest edition of A Writer's Britain. Over the last 40 years she has established herself as a major novelist with the likes of The Waterfall, The Gates of Ivory, The Millstone and many others. Appropriately A Writer's Britain is itself a glorious tour, a personal appreciation of British writers and their love of landscape.
Margaret Drabble is the perfect guide. She writes magnificently and the result is an enormously rewarding anthology from Bede and Chaucer to Wordsworth, Emily Bronte and Thomas Hardy. The range of this new book is immense, covering many themes from the sacred to the romantic, the industrial to the golden years of childhood. She argues brilliantly that not only have writers like Walter Scott and George Orwell been inspired by their experiences of landscape, but also their writing has in its turn shaped our relationship to nature. Join us for this unmissable event with one of the nation’s finest writers.
Corn Exchange, Melrose 7.00pm - 8.00pm | £12
