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    Travis Alabanza: Life Beyond the Binary

    Saturday 13 August 14:15 - 15:15

    Travis Alabanza: Life Beyond the Binary Book
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    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...
     

    Margo Jefferson: The Art of Self-Construction

    Sunday 14 August 20:15 - 21:15

    Margo Jefferson: The Art of Self-Construction Book
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    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....
     

    Close Read: Jess Brough on Octavia E Butler’s Parable of the Sower

    Monday 15 August 13:00 - 14:30

    Close Read: Jess Brough on Octavia E Butler’s Parable of the Sower Book
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    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...
     

    Nadifa Mohamed: For Whom is Justice Served?

    Tuesday 16 August 13:30 - 14:30

    Nadifa Mohamed: For Whom is Justice Served? Book
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    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...
     

    Marlon James: A Fantastical Star

    Tuesday 16 August 19:30 - 20:30

    Marlon James: A Fantastical Star Book
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    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...
     

    N K Jemisin: Ancient Evil on the Streets of New York

    Sunday 21 August 16:30 - 17:30

    N K Jemisin: Ancient Evil on the Streets of New York Book
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    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...