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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.
Can the truth save those who have been condemned for something other than a crime? Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2021, The Fortune Men takes us to Cardiff ’s multicultural Tiger Bay in 1952, where Mahmood Mattan is accused of murder. He feels...
What new ways of thinking and feeling can guide us through rapid climate change? Activist and writer Jessica Gaitán Johannesson uses the body and its vulnerabilities to comprehend the climate crisis in her raw collection of essays, The Nerves and Their...
Never underestimate a librarian. That’s the message of Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Weird Sisters, the latest laugh-out-loud time-travelling crime novel by Olga Wojtas. In another surreal outing for the intrepid, Doc Marten-clad martial arts expert...
Bach’s St Matthew Passion is one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. But what was it like to play and sing it for the first time? James Runcie, bestselling author of The Grantchester Mysteries, talks about the research involved in writing...
For many of us, the physical restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic have refreshed our relationships with the outdoors. But for Helen Mort and Anna Fleming, the mountains always represented both freedom and control. In discussing their books – A Line...
Announcing our Communities Programme and Citizen events this August 
