There are events for just about every age and interest at the Book Festival, bringing readers and writers together for inspiration, entertainment and discussion. Over 900 authors appear in around 800 events, including novelists, poets, scientists, sportsmen, illustrators, comics creators, historians, musicians, biographers, Nobel and Booker prize-winners and many more besides.
A donkey arrested by the Israeli police; a hyena stoned to death on the side of a West Bank road. In Companions in Conflict, Penny Johnson, a co-founder of the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University, examines the intertwined lives and...