By Lucy Neill | 27 May 2026
We’re excited to welcome award-winning novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison for an in-person talk at Framlingham Library next month.
Melissa will be visiting on Monday 8 June to talk about her writing career and her new book, The Given World. Books will be on sale toward the end of the evening, with an opportunity to get a signed copy.
Tickets are available to book from Framlingham Library, Framlingham Books and online on TicketSource.
A suggested donation of £5 per person is welcome and all funds raised will go to the Friends of Framlingham Library, a voluntary group which supports and improves the library and the community it serves.
For more information about the event, speak with a member of staff at Framlingham Library or call 01728 587104.
About Melissa Harrison
Melissa Harrison is a novelist, nature writer, podcaster and children’s author. Her 2018 novel All Among the Barley was the UK winner of the European Prize for Literature. A collection of Melissa’s Times columns, The Stubborn Light of Things, was named as East Anglian Book of the Year.
Her work has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and the Wainwright Prize and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She lives in Suffolk.
About The Given World
April brings spring surging with it, giving rise, among many in the village, to a comforting illusion that all is somehow still right with the world, and that nothing will ever change.
In the ancient Welm Valley, something is shifting: the river is behaving oddly, while the arrival of spring, with its familiar rhythms, is shadowed by an undercurrent of unease.
A woman falls while out walking and hopes to be found before nightfall; a doctor realises, too late, that he has long underestimated his wife; across the village, people are plagued by the same vast and unsettling dream. And alone in a converted priory, overlooking watermeadows unchanged for centuries, Clare Grey receives news which will force her to reconsider her family’s past and the fresh weight of her solitary existence.
The Given World is available to reserve from our online catalogue with your library card.