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    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
    Why not try? Workshop: Omar Musa on Writing from Images Workshop: Omar Musa on Writing from Images Fri 19 Aug 13:00 - 15:00
     

    Howard Jacobson: A Manchester Mother's Boy

    Monday 15 August 13:00 - 14:00

    Howard Jacobson: A Manchester Mother's Boy Book
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    Funny, sophisticated, profound – the novels of Howard Jacobson offer innumerable delights. But the Booker Prize-winning author didn’t publish until he was 40 years old. Now 16 books into a stellar career, Jacobson returns to his roots in Mother’s...
     

    Beneath the Covers: Best Marketing Strategies of 2022

    Monday 15 August 13:30 - 14:45

    Beneath the Covers: Best Marketing Strategies of 2022 Book
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    It’s one thing to write a great book. It’s a different challenge to get people to buy it. This event gives a glimpse of creative book marketing with some of the industry professionals shortlisted for the British Book Award. Join founders of...
     

    Jay Hulme: Go Your Own Way

    Age 3-5

    Monday 15 August 13:30 - 14:30

    Jay Hulme: Go Your Own Way Book
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    Smash up stereotypes and choose your own path in this energetic event from poet Jay Hulme. Jay’s bright and brilliant picture book, My Own Way, is all about how there are no limits to what you can do and who you can be. In today’s event, work with...
     

    Jo Browning Wroe & Daniel Wiles: Tragedy on an Industrial Scale

    Monday 15 August 14:15 - 15:15

    Jo Browning Wroe & Daniel Wiles: Tragedy on an Industrial Scale Book
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    In debuts of striking imaginative reach, two novelists measure the human cost of the UK’s coal mining industry. Jo Browning Wroe’s A Terrible Kindness explores the 1966 Aberfan disaster when a colliery landslide buried a Welsh school, told by the...
     

    Tracey Corderoy: A Visit to The One-Stop Story Shop

    Age 5-8

    Monday 15 August 14:30 - 15:30

    Tracey Corderoy: A Visit to The One-Stop Story Shop Book
    Why not try? Upcycled Must-Haves with Maudie Smith Upcycled Must-Haves with Maudie Smith Age 3-6 Sat 13 Aug 14:30 - 15:30
     

    Frank Dikötter: Rise of a Superpower

    Monday 15 August 14:30 - 15:30

    Frank Dikötter: Rise of a Superpower Book
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    Since the death of Chairman Mao in 1976, China has radically reformed. But the result has been uneven, creating real economic growth and global political influence, but also reinforcing the one-party state’s grip over its vast population. Launching...
     

    Reading the World

    Monday 15 August 15:00 - 15:30

    Reading the World Book
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    Can writers give us a fresh perspective on global and local issues? Each afternoon a leading writer discusses books, research and ideas confronting this time of uncertainty and change.
     

    Catherine Menon & Vauhini Vara: Untangling Family Histories

    Monday 15 August 15:30 - 16:30

    Catherine Menon & Vauhini Vara: Untangling Family Histories Book
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    Catherine Menon and Vauhini Vara discuss their ambitious debut novels, which unpick family secrets, with Rachelle Atalla. Named one of the Telegraph’s best novels of 2021, Menon’s Fragile Monsters unfolds the dramatic story of a Malaysian family’s...
     

    Justin Webb: Radio Saved My Life

    Monday 15 August 16:00 - 17:00

    Justin Webb: Radio Saved My Life Book
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    Respected presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Justin Webb sheds revealing new light on his dysfunctional childhood. His moving, candid and humane memoir, The Gift of a Radio, paints a fascinating picture of the 70s Britain that shaped him....