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Emma Forrest & Emma Jane Unsworth: The Messy Glory of Youth

Saturday 9 August 15:15 - 16:15

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Join the authors of these gutsy, vivacious novels for a lively discussion with Nyla Ahmad on the fearless nature of obsession and the bruising reality of teenage infatuation…
 

Vincenzo Latronico & Ayşegül Savaş: Modern Life Under the Microscope

Saturday 9 August 17:00 - 18:00

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Leading lights of international fiction Vincenzo Latronico and Ayşegül Savas join us with two very different novels, both subjecting millennial couples and their lives to the microscope. Latronico's International Booker-shortlisted Perfection delivers a……
 

Tash Aw & Alan Hollinghurst: Intimate Histories

Saturday 9 August 19:30 - 20:30

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Two master novelists meet today for a spellbinding conversation…
 

Abdulrazak Gurnah: Coming of Age During Global Change

Sunday 10 August 15:15 - 16:15

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Winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for 'his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee', it's an honour to welcome Abdulrazak Gurnah to the Festival to discuss his latest novel, Theft…
 

Nell Zink & Nicola Barker: Our Big, Strange World

Sunday 10 August 15:15 - 16:15

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Great comic novels remind us that the world is bigger and weirder than we think. Camilla Grudovajoins two modern virtuosos of this enduring form: Nell Zink and Nicola Barker…
 

Rose Keating & So Mayer: Beyond Reality

Sunday 10 August 18:30 - 19:30

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Everything is not as it seems in Rose Keating and So Mayer's unique and lively new short story collections. Join them for a discussion with Sasha de Buyl about their playful, provocative forms, storytelling, and bringing fresh new perspectives to the…
 

Guadalupe Nettel & Ayşegül Savaş: The Extraordinary Ordinary

Sunday 10 August 18:45 - 19:45

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The art of the story is to say much with less, and today Roxani Krystalli talks to the authors of two perceptive new collections speaking volumes…
 

Rachel Kushner: Profound and Wickedly Entertaining

Sunday 10 August 19:30 - 20:30

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Rachel Kushner has called writing her Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Creation Lake 'the most fun I've ever had in my life'. She talks with Francisco Garcia today about reinventing the espionage novel, her obsession with Neanderthal genetics, and the…
 

Michael Amherst & John Patrick McHugh: Growing Up

Sunday 10 August 20:00 - 21:00

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There are as many boyhoods and young-­man-hoods as there are boys and young men, each distinct and complex; today we meet the chroniclers of two. Expect discussion of alternative masculinities of sensitivity, honesty, and frailty…
 

Leila Aboulela & Karen Campbell: Watch Me Begin Again

Monday 11 August 11:30 - 12:30

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What would you do if you were given a second chance? An opportunity to start again and do things differently? Join us for this heartwarming event celebrating the Festival's theme of Repair…