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.
British Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry last year for The Perseverance. His compelling poetry deals with family life, the death of his father, his diagnosis with deafness and his biracial heritage. Our...
Curated and chaired by Freedom from Torture, today’s authors read the work of participants in the ‘Write to Life’ programme. The selection of writing considers how, having found safety in asylum, life is often far from perfect for victims of...