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    Lucy Farfort: Build Your Own Magical Den

    Age 3+

    Sunday 29 August 11:15 - 11:40

    Lucy Farfort: Build Your Own Magical Den
    Amy’s new room is strange and scary, and her new house just does not feel like home! But with some new friends, and a little magic from Dad, can Amy stop being Afraid of the Dark? Find out in this delightful event with illustrator Lucy Farfort, then...
     

    Tom de Freston & Kiran Millwood Hargrave: In Search of Sharks

    Age 9+

    Sunday 29 August 11:30 - 12:15

    Tom de Freston & Kiran Millwood Hargrave: In Search of Sharks
    Bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave and award-winning artist Tom de Freston collaborated for the very first time on a beautiful new book that takes you on a journey deep into the sea and beyond. In Julia and the Shark, a girl accompanies her...
     

    Charlotte Higgins: Why Greek Myths Still Matter

    Sunday 29 August 13:00 - 14:00

    Charlotte Higgins: Why Greek Myths Still Matter
    The Guardian’s chief culture writer has enjoyed enormous success in recent years by combining a formidable talent for smart journalism with her abiding love of the Classics. The resulting books include Under Another Sky, in which she journeyed around...
     

    Ming Chen, Wah Chen & Carmen Vela: One Day We Had to Run

    Age 7+

    Sunday 29 August 14:15 - 14:25

    Ming Chen, Wah Chen & Carmen Vela: One Day We Had to Run
    In their book Escape, authors Ming Chen and Wah Chen have drawn out powerful true stories of escape from around the world and throughout history. For this event, the authors bring to life two of these stories. The first is the incredible story of...
     

    Arifa Akbar: The Complexity of Sisterhood

    Sunday 29 August 14:30 - 15:30

    Arifa Akbar: The Complexity of Sisterhood
    In 2016, Arifa Akbar’s sister Fauzia died suddenly, leaving Arifa and her family suspended between shock and disbelief. Only shortly beforehand did she learn that her sister was suffering from tuberculosis. Akbar is the Guardian’s chief theatre...
     

    Abir Mukherjee with Val McDermid: Calcutta on the Brink

    Sunday 29 August 16:00 - 17:00

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    Abir Mukherjee with Val McDermid: Calcutta on the Brink
    Though he’s an award-winning, internationally bestselling author now, Abir Mukherjee didn’t always live the dream. For twenty years he worked as an accountant before throwing away the spreadsheets. Now he’s grown to become one of the UK’s...
     

    Katie Kitamura: Familiarity and Contempt

    Sunday 29 August 17:15 - 18:15

    Katie Kitamura: Familiarity and Contempt
    Regarded as a master of cool disquiet, a novelist of enchanting imagination and minimalist prose, Katie Kitamura has grown into one of America’s most respected authors. She’s also a favourite with other writers: her new novel Intimacies isn’t...
     

    Maggie Nelson: The Many Meanings of Freedom

    Sunday 29 August 17:30 - 18:30

    Maggie Nelson: The Many Meanings of Freedom
    Named by Olivia Laing as ‘among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation,’ Maggie Nelson is a hugely influential critical theorist whose writing defies genre. She has written art criticism, memoir, poetry and scholarship, and gained a...
     

    Kazuo Ishiguro: On Being Human

    Sunday 29 August 19:00 - 20:00

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    Kazuo Ishiguro: On Being Human
    Having added 2017’s Nobel Prize for Literature to his 1989 Booker Prize, the unassuming Kazuo Ishiguro has quietly been established as one of the world’s greatest living authors. It is a far cry from his early years as a writer, when he also worked...
     

    Charles Yu: Smashing Hollywood Stereotypes

    Sunday 29 August 20:15 - 21:15

    Charles Yu: Smashing Hollywood Stereotypes
    What does it take for an actor to attain the status that gives them the tag of ‘Special Guest Star’ in a TV series? It takes something extra – and particularly so if you are an actor of Asian heritage, trying to break through in Hollywood. ...

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