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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.
Meet citizens of exile in two startlingly topical novels about the traumas of displacement. Serbian writer and poet Vesna Goldsworthy follows a daughter of the elite from a Soviet satellite state to London in the 1980s. But freedom swiftly leads to...
Meg Mason’s breakout bestselling novel of love, family and mental health, Sorrow and Bliss, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and dubbed ‘the book you have to read this summer’ by the Evening Standard. Comparisons have arisen to...
Three authors are brought together to reimagine resistance. Sequoia Nagamatsu’s debut How High We Go in the Dark shows us a world changed by plague – and humanity’s unending will to survive. The Cuckoo Cage, which Courttia Newland contributed to,...
Join award-winning US authors Kalynn Bayron (Cinderella is Dead, This Wicked Fate) and Renée Watson (Piecing Me Together, Love is a Revolution) in conversation with the founders of Black Girls’ Book Club, Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A Carter...
When Lemn Sissay’s The Fire People was published in 1998 it brought a group of talented Black British poets to public attention. 24 years on it is being republished. Kayo Chingonyi’s anthology More Fiya nods to the importance of Sissay’s original...
The Bloomsbury Group of writers, artists and thinkers retain an enduring fascination for their creative and sexual liberation. Merve Emre’s annotated edition of Mrs Dalloway reveals Virginia Woolf and company afresh, through commentary and images...
Announcing our Communities Programme and Citizen events this August 
