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    Patrick Radden Keefe: Money is a Drug

    Monday 15 August 19:00 - 20:00

    Patrick Radden Keefe: Money is a Drug Book
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    It was a family whose fortune was built up by Valium, then destroyed by Oxycontin. Patrick Radden Keefe’s electrifying history, Empire of Pain, won the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction, but he discusses the challenges he faced in publishing...
     

    Chitra Ramaswamy: Homelands

    Sunday 21 August 13:00 - 14:00

    Chitra Ramaswamy: Homelands Book
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    One of three major performances this year looking at today’s Scotland. Homelands is the new memoir by Chitra Ramaswamy and tells the story of the author’s friendship with Henry Wuga, who arrived in 1939 with the Kindertransport fleeing Nazi Germany....
     

    Close Read: Chitra Ramaswamy on Austerlitz by W G Sebald

    Monday 22 August 10:30 - 12:00

    Close Read: Chitra Ramaswamy on Austerlitz by W G Sebald Book
    Why not try? Close Read: Mary Gaitskill on Alice Munro's Vandals and John Cheever's The Five Forty-Eight Close Read: Mary Gaitskill on Alice Munro's Vandals and John Cheever's The Five Forty-Eight Sun 21 Aug 13:00 - 14:30
     

    Kathryn Schulz: Love Lost and Found

    Monday 22 August 18:15 - 19:15

    Kathryn Schulz: Love Lost and Found Book
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    Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Kathryn Schulz met the woman who would become her wife just 18 months before her beloved father died. In Lost & Found she explores the intertwining of love and grief, of loss and discovery, via the three families at the...
     

    Siri Hustvedt: What Makes a Mother?

    Tuesday 23 August 18:15 - 19:15

    Siri Hustvedt: What Makes a Mother? Book
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    Mothers, Fathers and Others, the new collection from award-winning essayist Siri Hustvedt, approaches the question of parenthood through a distinctly current lens. Hustvedt confronts the myriad issues of motherhood with her signature expansiveness,...
     

    Sinéad Gleeson & Ottessa Moshfegh: A Woman's Music is Never Done

    Wednesday 24 August 20:15 - 21:15

    Sinéad Gleeson & Ottessa Moshfegh: A Woman's Music is Never Done Book
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    In This Woman’s Work, critically acclaimed essayist Sinéad Gleeson and rock legend Kim Gordon have brought together 16 essays for, by and about the women who have changed the face of music – and been largely uncelebrated, thanks to the partriarchal...