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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.
Acclaimed writer, theatremaker and performer Travis Alabanza is used to cutting their own path. Taking their first theatre show on a tour of clubs, venues and bookshops aged just 20, they have never waited for culture to catch up. Join them in...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Negroland returns with Constructing a Nervous System, a memoir that is as far-ranging as it is intimate. The book takes its original form from moments of Margo Jefferson’s life that trouble her and restore her....
Jess Brough takes you on a deep dive into Octavia E Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower. The open discussion of this dystopic classic compares the climate crisis at time of publication and how we experience it now. Brough will guide you through...
Can the truth save those who have been condemned for something other than a crime? Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2021, The Fortune Men takes us to Cardiff ’s multicultural Tiger Bay in 1952, where Mahmood Mattan is accused of murder. He feels...
What does a writer do once they’ve won the Booker Prize? If you’re the indefatigable Marlon James, you embark on a wildly ambitious series that defies easy characterisation. The second in the Dark Star trilogy Moon Witch, Spider King draws...
After winning the Hugo Award for three consecutive years with her Broken Earth series, speculative fiction’s most critically acclaimed author N K Jemisin is back. The City We Became sees five New Yorkers thrown together in order to defend their city...