Authors In Oundle

04/12/2025

Win a set of signed copies of the Booker and International Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted books - just in time for Christmas. 🎄🎁

This competition is open internationally, and you can see full T&Cs on the competition page.

Enter here ⤵️
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/win-a-set-of-signed-copies-of-the-booker-and-international-booker-prize-shortlisted-books

30/11/2025

How can a golf course become a place for nature and people to thrive? National Trust Ranger Ajay Tegala visits Sandilands in Lincolnshire over its first year...

30/11/2025

Calling Cambridge artists and creative freelancers 📣

Want to discuss your creative practice or explore a project idea?

We still have a few slots available for our free 1:1 Open Advice Sessions in Cambridge.

We will be joined by guest artists Issaam Kourbaj and Mark Titchner, as part of the Create Cambridge programme. The session will be led by you and what you would like to discuss.

These sessions will give you focused time to discuss any creative challenge, question or ambition - whether that’s developing a new idea, tackling a barrier in your practice, or simply talking through your work.


Find out more and book one of the remaining slots by following the links below:

Open Advice session with Mark Titchner, 9 December, 10am - 4.15pm: https://bit.ly/47z6nmO

Open Advice session with Issaam Kourbaj, 2 December, 10am - 4.15pm: https://bit.ly/3KWRJND

ID: A cosy corner of a room with four people sat chatting around a low coffee table. Oranges and biscuits are some of the snacks on the table and it is a sunny winter day through the window behind them. The Open advice text sits on top of the photo at the bottom left in white.

28/11/2025

'The writer of a children’s book has license to abandon time and place, to create, to propose alternatives.'

As we look toward the Children’s Booker Prize, Penelope Lively reflects on why children’s books matter.

Read the full article from The Observer here: https://observer.pulse.ly/jqesdwmve0

27/11/2025

27/11/2025

All are welcome to this informative and joyful event just before Christmas!
There will be books for sale from Oundle Bookshop, penguin biscuits for some chocolatey crunch, prints from the book by artist Lisa Fretwell to peruse and enjoy, and prizes for the best costumes. This is in addition to hearing Peter Fretwell, a leading scientist at the British Antarctic Survey and an expert on the Emperor penguin colonies found there. He is currently in Antarctica and will have the most up-to-date information about the penguins to share with us!
Don't delay buy your tickets now.

Tickets £14 (£9) available from Oundle Bookshop (cash only) or online from https://www.authorsinoundle.co.uk/aio-event/peter-lisa-fretwell-the-penguin-book-of-penguins/
Inquiries contact [email protected]

24/11/2025

This is the second of Geoff Harrop’s photographs in our 2026 Scenes Around Oundle calendar.
It illustrates July and we chose it because of the wonderful colours and the swirl of mist. Geoff tells us he took the picture with a small consumer drone camera. It was one of the first flights he’d undertaken and he was still learning how to fly it! Nonetheless he says this shot turned out to be one of the best he’s ever taken with the drone.
The calendar is on sale now and costs only £8.00.
All the money we raise from sales will be used to support and improve Oundle Library. Do buy one!

20/11/2025

Always worth a browse in Oxfam Books, lots of quality books to choose from.

19/11/2025

First notification of our event in February next year. This promises to be popular and will make a great forward-thinking Christmas present!
Lucy Ash: The Baton and The Cross
Thursday 19th February, 7.30 pm, Great Hall, Oundle
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2025* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2025* *ONE OF HISTORY TODAY’S BEST BOOKS OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE* *LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE*
For more than a millennium, the Russian Orthodox Church has shown astonishing survival skills - from the Mongol yoke to tsarist demagoguery and enlightenment, from Soviet atheism to the chaotic 1990s. Now again, it is at the right hand of power, sanctifying Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. In this provocative new book, Lucy Ash reveals how, under Putin, religion is being stripped of its spiritual content and used as a weapon to control the population.
LUCY ASH is an award-winning presenter of radio and TV documentaries. An expert on Russia and post-Soviet countries she was first sent to Moscow by the BBC in 1990 and has been covering the region’s social, political, and cultural issues ever since. The Baton and the Cross is her first book.
Lucy will be in conversation with Keir Giles. Keir’s work has appeared in a wide range of academic and military publications across Europe and in North America, and he is a regular contributor and commentator on Russian affairs for international print and broadcast media. He is a Senior Consulting Fellow at the UK's Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and also works with the Conflict Studies Research Centre (CSRC).

Tickets £14 (£9) available from Oundle Bookshop (cash only) or online from www.authorsinoundle.co.uk
Inquiries contact [email protected]
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18/11/2025

It might sound strange, but you don’t actually have to do crafts if you
attend Oundle Library’s Crafternoons. Yes, there are crafts available if you want them, or you can take along your own project to do. But
Crafternoons are really about teas and coffees and having a natter!
They happen at the library every Thursday afternoon from 2pm to 3.30pm and anyone can roll up to join in.
Why not drop in?
Free to attend.