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Discover the Secrets of Bees with Ben Hoare

Suitable for age 6 - 9

Friday 22 August 15:45 - 16:45

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Become a pollinator pro in this fabulouzzzzz event with bee-fanatic and author of The Secrets of Bees, Ben Hoare. With his bee-rilliant science facts, Ben will get you to THINK BIG about these small but incredible creatures. Bee prepared to get buzzing……
 

Josephine Quinn: The World that Made the West

Friday 22 August 16:00 - 17:00

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Historian and archaeologist Josephine Quinn is an expert in ancient history, from Greece and Rome to Phoenicia. Today, she shares lessons from her new book, How the World Made the West…
 

Joe Boyd: Bringing It All Back Home

Friday 22 August 16:30 - 17:30

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Responsible for the sound on the night Bob Dylan went electric, and producer of Nick Drake, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, and R.E.M, few know the 20th century’s most popular music better than the legendary Joe Boyd – or are more familiar with the global……
 

Elisa Levi & Sara Mesa: Spain’s New Literary Horizons

Friday 22 August 16:45 - 17:45

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Discover two bold new voices from Spain, recently published in English for the first time. Writing in the tradition of the Spanish literary greats, Elisa Levi and Sara Mesa’s fiction blend themes of belonging, coming of age, power dynamics, and rural…
 

Elaine Castillo, Chris McQueer & Catherine Prasifka: Virtually Reality

Friday 22 August 17:00 - 18:00

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An exploration of humanity at its most uncharted frontier. Today, we talk to Chris McQueer, Catherine Prasifka, and Elaine Castillo, who have each written compelling novels set in the parallel country of the internet…
 

A C Grayling: Disagreeing Agreeably?

Friday 22 August 17:00 - 18:00

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Sometimes it feels like we can’t talk about anything without further polarising opinions. Join author and philosopher A C Grayling as he seeks the middle-ground in an incendiary debate…
 

Fresh Fiction with Dean Atta, Ashley Hickson-Lovence & Asli Jensen

Friday 22 August 17:30 - 18:30

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Join Dean Atta (I Can’t Even Think Straight), Ashley Hickson-Lovence (Wild East), and Asli Jensen (Love on Sight) as they share how they each found their own fresh, authentic style to create narrative voices that resonate with their readers…
 

Tracy Borman: The Royal Lie That Started a War

Friday 22 August 17:45 - 18:45

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Succession meets the 17th century English monarchy in historian and novelist Tracy Borman’s revealing new book The Stolen Crown, which puts forward that Queen Elizabeth I didn’t, in fact, name King James VI of Scotland as her deathbed successor…
 

Something Gorey

Friday 22 August 18:15 - 19:15

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From Maurice Sendak to Edward Scissorhands, Edward Gorey’s surreal and gothic fingers are all over a particular corner of 20th century art…
 

Xiaolu Guo: A Whale of a Retelling

Friday 22 August 18:30 - 19:30

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Writer, artist, and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo is critically acclaimed in every medium she touches. Her novel Call Me Ishmaelle is a bold, playful, gender-swapping retelling of Moby Dick that reinvigorates Melville’s classic…