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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.
Lauded as one of the great American novelists of our time, multi award-winning Jonathan Franzen joins us to discuss his latest novel Crossroads, which was released to huge excitement and great expectation. Today, he speaks about his exploration of 1970s...
Victoria Wood once joked that the British response to death was a woman dragging herself into the kitchen saying, ‘72 baps Connie. You slice, I’ll spread’. Hosts Michael Pedersen and Gemma Cairney want to do away with the idea that grief should be...
From the author of The Last King of Scotland comes an ambitious new novel, Freight Dogs. Fleeing the war that killed his family, teenage Manu finds himself recruited by mercenaries. The freight dogs are pilots who carry weapons between warring African...
In 2015, Anne Enright was appointed as the inaugural Laureate of Irish Fiction. ‘It’s great to have Ireland to write about,’ she said, ‘It’s a great resource.’ The appointment recognised Enright’s status as a chronicler of the times, of...
On Festival nights, we present a new play based on David Keenan’s novel This is Memorial Device. The fictional history of 1980s Airdrie’s mysterious, post-punk legends, Memorial Device, Keenan’s novel has a huge cult following. This stage...