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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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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....