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    Janina Ramirez: Out of the Margins

    Saturday 27 August 16:15 - 17:15

    Janina Ramirez: Out of the Margins Book
    Why not try? David Wengrow: Reimagining Prehistory David Wengrow: Reimagining Prehistory Fri 26 Aug 11:30 - 12:30
     

    Lucy Caldwell & Louise Kennedy: Belfast in the Blood

    Saturday 27 August 16:30 - 17:30

    Lucy Caldwell & Louise Kennedy: Belfast in the Blood Book
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    Meet two authors of novels about life in an extraordinary city. In Lucy Caldwell’s These Days, it’s 1941 and Belfast has escaped the worst of the war, until the Blitz brings devastation. Now, two sisters must find a way to carry on. Louise...
     

    Scotland’s Stories Now: On This Day

    Saturday 27 August 17:00 - 17:45

    Scotland’s Stories Now: On This Day Book
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    This year, we asked people across Scotland – of any age, background or ability – to submit their own stories responding to the prompt ‘On This Day’, to build a fascinating portrait of Scotland today. Every day at 17:00 different storytellers...
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    Close Read: Sabrina Mahfouz on Medea by Euripides and Antigone by Sophocles

    Saturday 27 August 17:00 - 18:30

    Close Read: Sabrina Mahfouz on Medea by Euripides and Antigone by Sophocles (Cancelled) Book
    Why not try? Workshop: Nikesh Shukla on Telling Your Story Workshop: Nikesh Shukla on Telling Your Story Thu 25 Aug 10:30 - 12:00
     

    Lauren John Joseph & Liza Klaussmann: The Violence of First Loves

    Saturday 27 August 17:30 - 18:30

    Lauren John Joseph & Liza Klaussmann: The Violence of First Loves Book
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    Set across a decade, Lauren John Joseph’s debut At Certain Points We Touch is an intoxicating exploration of queer relationships, young lust and a terrible betrayal. In Liza Klaussmann’s This Is Gonna End in Tears, three friends try to piece...
     

    Lucy Easthope & Gavin Francis: Coming Back to Ourselves After Disaster

    Saturday 27 August 17:30 - 18:30

    Lucy Easthope & Gavin Francis: Coming Back to Ourselves After Disaster Book
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    What does recovery mean, when a person has been through something they never could have prepared for? When the Dust Settles is crisis management expert Lucy Easthope’s memoir of existing in the aftermath of disaster. In Recovery, GP and author Gavin...
     

    Eloghosa Osunde: Outlawed in Lagos

    Saturday 27 August 18:15 - 19:15

    Eloghosa Osunde: Outlawed in Lagos Book
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    What does one do with the forgotten people in a modern city? If you’re Eloghosa Osunde, you place them front and centre in your hotly-anticipated debut novel – to stunning effect. Vagabonds! boldly explores the transient spaces in contemporary...
     

    Ocean Vuong: I'm Here to Stay

    Saturday 27 August 19:00 - 20:00

    Ocean Vuong: I'm Here to Stay Book
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    Ocean Vuong’s reckoning with the death of his mother – and the grief, trauma and love that attends such a loss – lies at the heart of his new poetry collection, Time is a Mother. Vuong’s work is infused with stories of migration, identity and...
     

    Hernan Diaz: All That Glitters is Not Gold

    Saturday 27 August 19:30 - 20:30

    Hernan Diaz: All That Glitters is Not Gold Book
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    Hernan Diaz’s Trust is made up of novels nested within novels like the gilded surprises hidden in Fabergé eggs. A legendary financier in 1920s New York is the subject of an inflammatory book that sheds light on his private life. But as other voices...
     

    Samuel Fisher & Daisy Hildyard: The End is Nigh

    Saturday 27 August 20:15 - 21:15

    Samuel Fisher & Daisy Hildyard: The End is Nigh Book
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    The climate crisis hums like an electric fence around Samuel Fisher’s Wivenhoe and Daisy Hildyard’s Emergency. In Fisher’s eerie fable, the murder of a young man forces a small village to reassess its strategies for survival in a world muffled by...