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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.
It’s the stuff of dreams. Esa Aldegheri sets out, carefree, from Orkney on a motorbike with her partner. In the cold fog of winter they cross to the citrus orchards of the Mediterranean, then on to the Syrian hills of Hatay, then Pakistan, India,...
In over 600 years of Ottoman rule, the longest-reigning sultan was Suleiman the Magnificent. The Lion House by Christopher de Bellaigue narrates the epic tale of Suleiman’s rise to become the most powerful man of the 16th century. Fans of Hilary...
Interviews, whether recorded or in front of a live audience, can seem intimidating, fraught propositions. What if your subject clams up or answers in monosyllabic grunts? Writer Dan Richards has the experience and skills to make your confabs fabulous...
Open your ears to choruses of frogs and birds, the thwops and whistles of whales and the chirrups of crickets as David George Haskell introduces his non-fiction rallying cry, Sounds Wild and Broken. The music made by the world’s creatures contains...
Dreams have been a favourite topic of psychology for a long time – but advances in biochemistry and neuroscience now confirm that dreams are more important than we might think. The Oracle of Night leads us on a grand-scale investigation through...
When Simon Woolley created Operation Black Vote in 1996, he inspired hundreds of thousands of people to participate in the democratic process. Raised on an impoverished estate in Leicester, he has become a political force to be reckoned with, the first...
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.
Combining a fertile imagination with a powerful sense of social justice, Jenni Fagan has a talent for writing great fiction. Her latest novella Hex underlines that, retelling the true story of Geillis Duncan – one of the first women accused in the...
Scholastique Mukasonga’s The Barefoot Woman, her second novel, is a testament to the bravery of her mother, a Tutsi woman who called on heartbreaking ingenuity to protect her children from Hutu soldiers during the Rwandan atrocities. In powerful...