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    Wes Streeting: From Working Class To Political Class

    Sunday 13 August 14:15 - 15:15

    Wes Streeting: From Working Class To Political Class Book
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    One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up, Wes Streeting's new memoir, pays tribute to the loving support from family members which helped him find his way in life despite an array of challenges. From growing up in poverty in Stepney to a Cambridge University...
     

    Lessons in Love with Liv Little & Caleb Azumah Nelson

    Sunday 13 August 15:30 - 16:30

    Lessons in Love with Liv Little & Caleb Azumah Nelson Book
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    With exhilarating honesty, these two novelists write about the concerns of their generation: love, friendship, identity, and minimum wage jobs. Liv Little, founder of gal-dem, makes her fiction debut with Rosewater, about Elsie who writes poetry between...
     

    Tessa Hadley: Everyday Turmoil 

    Sunday 13 August 17:45 - 18:45

    Tessa Hadley: Everyday Turmoil  Book
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    The lauded novelist of Free Love and Late in the Day returns to the Festival to discuss her latest collection, After the Funeral. These dazzling stories demonstrate Hadley’s skill at depicting and excoriating the travails of everyday life, where...
     

    Laura Cumming: Seeing the Light; Remembering a Life 

    Sunday 13 August 18:45 - 19:45

    Laura Cumming: Seeing the Light; Remembering a Life  Book
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    Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life and sudden death is something of a companion piece to Laura Cumming's previous book, On Chapel Sands and equally luminous. It weaves together art critic Cummings’ love for Dutch art of the Golden Age, and her...
     

    Sarah Bernstein & Sophie Mackintosh: Curious Incidents

    Monday 14 August 12:00 - 13:00

    Sarah Bernstein & Sophie Mackintosh: Curious Incidents Book
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    In any community, a series of unfortunate events can quickly escalate into a moral panic. The narrator of Sarah Bernstein’s Study for Obedience moves to a remote country and, according to suspicious locals, brings with her illness and blight. Based on...
     

    Colin Grant & Chitra Ramaswamy: Lives of Others

    Monday 14 August 13:30 - 14:30

    Colin Grant & Chitra Ramaswamy: Lives of Others Book
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    What can telling someone else’s story tell you about yourself? Chitra Ramaswamy’s Homelands and Colin Grant’s I’m Black So You Don’t Have To Be explore exactly that. These writers have created delicate portraits which hover between biography...
     

    Olga Ravn: A Writer at Work

    Tuesday 15 August 12:00 - 13:00

    Olga Ravn: A Writer at Work Book
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    With the irresistible International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Employees, Danish novelist Olga Ravn proved she can take an everyday experience – working – and reframe it as something quietly revolutionary. Now she returns with My Work, a funny and...
     

    Alford Dalrymple Gardner, Howard Gardner & Colin Grant: Beyond Windrush

    Tuesday 15 August 12:30 - 13:30

    Alford Dalrymple Gardner, Howard Gardner & Colin Grant: Beyond Windrush Book
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    Alford Dalrymple Gardner is one of the few living passengers to have travelled on the Empire Windrush, which sailed from Jamaica to Tilbury Docks. Finding Home: A Windrush Story is his extraordinary memoir, shared alongside his son Howard Gardner. Colin...
     

    Cariad Lloyd: Lessons from Loss

    Tuesday 15 August 15:15 - 16:15

    Cariad Lloyd: Lessons from Loss Book
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    Aged 15, Cariad Lloyd became someone she never wanted to be: a person-whose-dad-had-died. Years later, she began a podcast, Griefcast, to examine her grief and provide comfort and candour to others. Death is something that connects us all, despite our...
     

    Devorah Baum & Amy Key: Love’s Illusions

    Wednesday 16 August 12:30 - 13:30

    Devorah Baum & Amy Key: Love’s Illusions Book
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    What’s the purpose of romantic love? Why do we marry? Devorah Baum and Amy Key wrestle with these questions in their latest books. Baum’s On Marriage is a candid critique and celebration of the many contradictions of matrimony. Key is a poet and...