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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.
We welcome Domenico Starnone to celebrate the English edition of his 2019 novel, Trust, translated by Jhumpa Lahiri. Starnone has written over 13 books, earning him Italy’s highest literary prize, the Strega. In Trust, lovers Pietro and Teresa tell...
In 1985, Raja Shehadeh’s father Aziz was murdered in a pre-meditated knife attack. The circumstances of the crime are the subject of his Strangers in the House. Today, through his new memoir, Shehadeh sheds a different light on the father-son...
It’s the stuff of dreams. Esa Aldegheri sets out, carefree, from Orkney on a motorbike with her partner. In the cold fog of winter they cross to the citrus orchards of the Mediterranean, then on to the Syrian hills of Hatay, then Pakistan, India,...
Egyptian writer and political activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah's British citizenship was ratified in December 2021 while he was in an Egyptian prison, where he has been detained, almost continuously, since 2013. Today, his translators and family members Omar...
Deemed by Sally Rooney as the ‘most important work of contemporary reporting’, My Fourth Time, We Drowned explores Sally Hayden’s staggering investigation into the migrant crisis across North Africa. In The Naked Don’t Fear the Water, journalist...
The line-up for the 2022 Book Festival is revealed 
