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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.
Each day, a Festival author shares an unexpected inspiration or passion. Join them to crack open the curiosity cabinet, revealing the stories behind their books or side projects.
Daddy needs to get up. There are so many things to do but he won’t get out of bed! Is Daddy being lazy or is he really trying hard? This interactive session, based on the picture book Daddy’s Bad Day, explores parental mental health with simple...
Something wicked this way comes in two historical page-turners infused with witchcraft. The Leviathan, by Rosie Andrews, is set in Norfolk, 1643. A level-headed soldier investigates accusations of dark magic and finds more than he can reason with. In...
Parisian writer Jakuta Alikavazovic’s familial connection to the 1990s war in Yugoslavia once felt remote, but she now realises ‘I too have been shaped by the war’. Her novel, Night as It Falls, explores how traumas of the past can haunt young...
Thomas Mann argued there’s nothing ‘actual’ about time: humans don’t possess an organ that can sense it. Award-winning Bulgarian novelist Georgi Gospodinov plays with this idea in Time Shelter, beautifully translated into English by Angela...
As the world reopens after the pandemic, some of us are appreciating things in life that we took for granted. Others are feeling a loss of liberty at returning to the duties of ordinary life as it was before. In this workshop, philosopher Andy West...
Leading human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith was brought up by an obsessive man. Following his father’s death, through his letters, Stafford Smith uncovered a picture of someone deeply troubled. In The Far Side of the Moon he sets what he learned...
When a little boy finds a broken rainbow, he takes it home to look after it. Only when it disappears does he have to find out what it really means to be strong. Author and illustrator Corrina Campbell brings this magical story to life in an interactive...
With his highly anticipated second collection All the Names Given, Rathbone Folio Prize and Ted Hughes Award-winner Raymond Antrobus continues to speak to miscommunication, memory and identity, giving voice to the silences between us. Studied on the...
Announcing our Communities Programme and Citizen events this August 
