HOME grown actor Jack Lowden is coming to the Borders Book Festival this month.

Born in Chelmsford but brought up in the small Borders village of Oxton, Lowden’s impressive CV includes notable films such as Dunkirk, Calibre and Fighting with my Family.

Lowden, who many have tipped to replace Daniel Craig as James Bond will be in conversation with author Mick Herron, on the festival’s opening day Thursday June 16.

Lowden appeared in the recent TV adaptation of Herron’s darkly humorous spy thriller Slow Horses as hero River Cartwright, one of a team of failed intelligence operatives under the command of their cantankerous boss, played by Gary Oldman. Although highly trained, these misfits do not run ops – they push paper.

But when a boy is kidnapped and his beheading is scheduled for live broadcast on the net, they refuse to sit back and watch.

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A second series which will adapt the next book in Mick Herron’s “Dead Lions” series has already been filmed with an expected release date of late 2022.

And Herron will bring the audience up to date with Bad Actors, his seventh novel in the series which has been hailed as being ‘at the summit of a new golden age in spy fiction’.

The show will be chaired by Festival Director Alistair Moffat.

Slow Horses with Mick Herron and Jack Lowden will be in the Baillie Gifford Marquee

on Thursday 16 June at 7:30 pm. Ticket prices £15 | £13

Tickets now available at www.bordersbookfestival.org or by calling 0131 290 2112.