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Hundreds of events for adults, teenagers and children feature authors, illustrators, musicians, poets, policians, thinkers, prize-winners and rising stars every August.
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...