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Women are Legends too: Reimaging Fantasy with Laura Bates

Suitable for age 12 - 14

Thursday 21 August 13:30 - 14:15

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Laura Bates gives the inside scoop on Sisters of Fire and Fury, the sequel to her bestselling Sisters of Fury, conjuring a world of old magic, battles, and a mythic showdown - and explores how we can move through fear to find our courage…
 

Esther Freud: Excavating the Intimate

Thursday 21 August 13:45 - 14:45

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More than 30 years after her indelible debut, Hideous Kinky, Esther Freud brings us her 10th novel, My Sister and Other Lovers: a scalpel-sharp exploration of intrafamilial intimacies, concerning a mother and two daughters…
 

Mary Costello & Elaine Garvey: Push and Pull

Thursday 21 August 14:00 - 15:00

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The disquiet of modern life, a feeling of the past living alongside the present, the push and pull of rural places calling you home - each are overlapping preoccupations of award-winning author Mary Costello's new story collection, Barcelona, and Elaine……
 

Sami Timimi: Searching for Normal

Thursday 21 August 14:15 - 15:15

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The approach to both mental health and neurodivergence in clinical settings has changed enormously in the 30 years that Dr Sami Timimi has been a practicing psychiatrist…
 

Lucy Mangan & Sam Leith: Why Reading Matters

Thursday 21 August 15:00 - 16:00

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Could literature have the power to heal us? In an event that provides a testament to why books matter, the authors chat with Daniel Hahn about the power of reading on young lives…
 

Diane Abbott: A Lifetime of Making a Difference

Thursday 21 August 15:00 - 16:00

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Diane Abbott's journey to Westminster as the UK's first Black female MP is borne of sheer determination. She speaks about her inspirational memoir, A Woman Like Me…
 

The Women’s Prize for Fiction at 30

Thursday 21 August 15:30 - 16:30

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Over three decades the Women's Prize for Fiction has established itself as one of the world's greatest celebrations of female creativity in the world. Join us to look back on the prize's pioneering origins, and consider its lasting legacy…
 

Gerda Stevenson: Tales o’ Nine Lives

Thursday 21 August 15:45 - 16:45

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Today, we're joined by the luminous Gerda Stevenson: award-winning Scottish filmmaker and poet, theatre director and singer, songwriter and actress, author of plays and stories…
 

Become a Brainiac with Prof. Dr. Larissa Suzuki

Suitable for age 9 - 11

Thursday 21 August 16:00 - 17:00

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We use the internet every day to connect with friends, share information, and (let’s be honest) watch funny cat videos… but what exactly is it? And how does it work? Take a journey into the World Wide Web with computer scientist and inventor Prof. Dr…
 

Anshel Pfeffer, Ece Temelkuran & Shaun Walker: No Kings Here

Thursday 21 August 16:00 - 17:00

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How do we survive the era of the authoritarian strongman leader? Why do these men hold a monopoly on political power? And what are the alternatives to their rule?…