Balham will welcome its first ever Literary Festival this summer with award-winning authors set to appear.

The inaugural Balham Literary Festival will be held at The Bedford from Friday, June 10, to Sunday, June 12, with Costa Prize winner Helen Macdonald, Robert Macfarlane, China Mieville and performance artist Inua Ellams among the writers attending.

The three-day festival is curated by one of the country’s most renowned independent book shops, Dulwich Book and carries the theme ‘A Way of Being in the World’.

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The Midnight Run, an interactive nighttime walking tour of Balham stuffed with performance, kicks off the festival with a taster event on June 4 before things get fully underway on June 10.

Dulwich Books’ Susie Nicklin said: “We are all connected to our landscapes, whether urban, rural or those inside our heads, but how do we bring them to life?

“There are people – writers, photographers, musicians, artists across all genres – who describe and animate our surroundings with insight and verve, and we are delighted to welcome some of the greatest of these to our festival in June 2016.”

Tickets are on sale now. Go to balhamliteraryfestival.co.uk

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