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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.
Mohsin Hamid joins us on our opening day to discuss The Last White Man. This blistering novel sees Anders, a white man, wake up to find he has turned a ‘deep and undeniable brown’, with clear echoes of Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Hamid’s previous...
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...
Osman Yousefzada is an artist and designer, dressing Lady Gaga and exhibiting across the globe. But in the 80s and 90s, Yousefzada was raised in a conservative migrant community in Birmingham. In his engaging memoir The Go-Between, he speaks candidly on...
The novels of Sunjeev Sahota pay close attention to characters whose unhappiness is generally ignored. His debut invited readers into the perspective of a would-be suicide bomber, while his prize-winning second novel followed migrant workers in...
Ocean Vuong has garnered international critical acclaim for his novel and two poetry collections. Born in Saigon and raised in the USA, Vuong’s writing draws heavily on his experiences of queerness, migration and class, especially in his new...
In over 600 years of Ottoman rule, the longest-reigning sultan was Suleiman the Magnificent. The Lion House by Christopher de Bellaigue narrates the epic tale of Suleiman’s rise to become the most powerful man of the 16th century. Fans of Hilary...
At the height of their power, the Ottoman sultans governed almost a quarter of Europe’s land mass. During the Renaissance they were Europe’s biggest trading partner and even Henry VIII liked to dress in Ottoman styles. Find out how the Eastern...
This is the story of one curator’s audacious project to stage a retrospective of Francis Bacon’s paintings in Soviet-era Moscow. It’s also a picture of Soviet and Western relations just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. And it’s a close...
Recent years have been especially difficult for the East and Southeast Asian diaspora in the West. But in a trailblazing new anthology of essays and poetry, East Side Voices, EASA writers – from well-known celebrities and prize-winning literary stars...
Announcing our Communities Programme and Citizen events this August 
