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Be part of Budleigh’s biggest book group Our Festival Fiction Read for 2026, Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall, is a novel that draws you in with its beauty and keeps you hooked with the quiet tension of a thriller.

More than 700 students from schools in Exeter and East Devon were inspired by a visit of BAFTA winning storyteller, writer and poet Dean Atta thanks to Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival.