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Aja Barber, Alena Ivanova & Anna Freemantle-Zee: Wear and Repair

Thursday 21 August 12:00 - 13:00

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We all know to shop second-hand, avoid microplastic fibres, and celebrate re-wearing – but is this enough to make fashion sustainable? How much power do we really have as consumers? Today Aja Barber (author of Consumed), Anna Freemantle-Zee (founder of……
 

YA Book Prize 2025: Meet the Shortlisted Writers

Thursday 21 August 12:45 - 13:30

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Meet the incredible authors shortlisted for 2025’s YA Book Prize…
 

David Farrier & Alex Riley: Life Unstoppable

Thursday 21 August 13:15 - 14:15

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Our planet teems with life – across four billion years of evolution, organisms have adapted to thrive in even the most inhospitable environments. This fascinating conversation will take you from the highest peaks to the ocean’s depths as David Farrier……
 

Children’s Perspective: A Workshop with Catherine Chidgey

Thursday 21 August 13:30 - 15:30

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In this workshop, Catherine Chidgey will guide you through a series of exercises to help you to practise writing your own child narrators as three-dimensional figures who ring true without ever sounding twee…
 

Women are Legends too: Reimaging Fantasy with Laura Bates

Suitable for age 12 - 14

Thursday 21 August 13:30 - 14:15

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Laura Bates gives the inside scoop on Sisters of Fire and Fury, the sequel to her bestselling Sisters of Fury, conjuring a world of old magic, battles, and a mythic showdown - and explores how we can move through fear to find our courage…
 

Esther Freud: Excavating the Intimate

Thursday 21 August 13:45 - 14:45

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More than 30 years after her indelible debut, Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud brings us her 10th novel, My Sister and Other Lovers: a scalpel-sharp exploration of intrafamilial intimacies, concerning a mother and two daughters…
 

Mary Costello & Elaine Garvey: Push and Pull

Thursday 21 August 14:00 - 15:00

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The disquiet of modern life, a feeling of the past living alongside the present, the push and pull of rural places calling you home - each are overlapping preoccupations of award-winning author Mary Costello's new story collection, Barcelona, and Elaine……
 

Sami Timimi: Searching for Normal

Thursday 21 August 14:15 - 15:15

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The approach to both mental health and neurodivergence in clinical settings has changed enormously in the 30 years that Dr Sami Timimi has been a practicing psychiatrist…
 

Lucy Mangan & Sam Leith: Why Reading Matters

Thursday 21 August 15:00 - 16:00

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Why not try? Jenny Lau, Chitra Ramaswamy & Sami Tamimi: Food and Home Jenny Lau, Chitra Ramaswamy & Sami Tamimi: Food and Home Sun 17 Aug 10:15 - 11:15
 

Diane Abbott: A Lifetime of Making a Difference

Thursday 21 August 15:00 - 16:00

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Diane Abbott's journey to Westminster as the UK's first Black female MP is borne of sheer determination. She speaks about her inspirational memoir, A Woman Like Me…