Audio & Video Photographs Writers Writing
Mariana Enriquez & Megan McDowell with Daniel Hahn
Jinny's Freedom by Eloise Greenfield A few years now since Freedom, and Jinny is happy much of the time,… Jinny's Freedom by Eloise Greenfield
Éric Vuillard & Mark Polizzotti with Amelia Gentleman
Maria Stepanova & Sasha Dugdale with Allan Little
Big Screen in the Courtyard
Benjamin Labatut & Adrian Nathan West with Jay G Ying
Olga Ravn & Martin Aitken with Heather Parry
Celia Imrie
David Diop & Anna Moschovakis with Philippe Sands
The Gruffalo
Caleb Femi
Total Freedom by Carmen Maria Machado In Borges’ 1939 essay “The Total Library,” which later served as the basis for his short story, “The Library of Babel,” he imagined a library of infinite books, created of every conceivable arrangement of a certain kind of universal alphabet… Total Freedom by Carmen Maria Machado
Teri Terry
A D Miller
Malcolm Mackay
How We Kept The Conversation Going in 2020
Closing Night: A Case For Hope
Bookshop Browsing
Suzanne Bonnar & Joy Harjo with Jackie Kay
Kirstin Innes: Who is Clio Campbell? (2020 Event)
中国笼鸟 / China's Caged Birds by Yan Lianke When talking of freedom, for me it is a kind of luxury. It is like gazing every day, from deep within a dark wilderness of thorns, at a ray of light and warmth as it passes silently by, without ever gaining any real warmth or illumination from the light… 中国笼鸟 / China's Caged Birds by Yan Lianke
Anne Enright with Vicky Featherstone: Mothers and Daughters
Opening Night
Watching the Big Screen
Busy Crowds
Jenny Offill: Storm Warning
Frans Timmermans with Gordon Brown: The Way Forward for Europe
The Novelist and the Tyrants by S J Naudé In the South Africa of the 1970s and 80s, political writing was practically the only mode that was available to writers who wanted to be taken seriously. And coupled with the need to integrate a critique of the inhumane system of apartheid into one’s fiction, was the requisite mode of realism, which had long been viewed as the most effective vehicle for politically engaged fiction… The Novelist and the Tyrants by S J Naudé
Thomas Morris
Katie Dale
Bookshop
Relaxing in the Courtyard
Macastory
Steve Cavanagh
Rob Ewing
Jo Hunter & John Loughton: Power to the People
Val McDermid & Jo Sharp: Shaping a Better Future (2020 Event)