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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.
The history of translation into the English language is a story of colonisation. Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation asks how translators can best acknowledge this troubling past. And might it be possible to use translation to rewrite the...
This is the story of one curator’s audacious project to stage a retrospective of Francis Bacon’s paintings in Soviet-era Moscow. It’s also a picture of Soviet and Western relations just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. And it’s a close...
Following two years of disruption in schools, we’re bringing together education pioneers to imagine the creative, bespoke settings needed to support young people. Our panellists include founder of The Black Curriculum campaign, Lavinya Stennett; Emma...
Mountains can be symbols – of human insignificance, natural drama, solitude and escape. Both Lucie Elven’s The Weak Spot and Irene Solà’s When I Sing, Mountains Dance, take place in mountainous landscapes to powerful dramatic effect. Elven’s...
To call Jack Monroe a cookbook writer would be to undersell her by several degrees of magnitude. From being a struggling single mother on a microbudget, she has built a career helping those who society has left behind. Fresh from pressuring supermarkets...
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.
When a violent crime is committed, who needs to get involved aside from the detectives? Dr Gwen Adshead and Professor Angela Gallop provide two different but equally eye-opening answers in their new books. The Devil You Know shares Adshead’s...