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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.
If graphic novels have historically been overlooked by the literary establishment, then Nick Drnaso’s work is changing things. Sabrina was the first graphic novel to be longlisted for the Booker Prize. Now Acting Class confirms Drnaso as one of...
It’s one thing to write a great book. It’s a different challenge to get people to buy it. This event gives a glimpse of creative book marketing with some of the industry professionals shortlisted for the British Book Award. Join founders of...
As well as being a writer, editor and critic Daniel Hahn has produced more than 70 translations of literary fiction from Portuguese, Spanish and French into English, many of them award-winning. Today, Hahn leads you through the process of translating...
Is having a morality clause in an author’s contract a step forward or back? As publishers currently debate the pros and cons, author and philosopher Andy West looks at the relationship between art and morality throughout history. In this fascinating,...
Interviews, whether recorded or in front of a live audience, can seem intimidating, fraught propositions. What if your subject clams up or answers in monosyllabic grunts? Writer Dan Richards has the experience and skills to make your confabs fabulous...
A truly uplifting emotional journey; a tender, wise, brutally funny novel.’ So says the Guardian about The Coward, Jarred McGinnis’s autobiographical debut. After an accident leaves Jarred, the book’s narrator, in a wheelchair he is forced to...
Join writer, poet and performer Omar Musa for a creative writing workshop as he shows you how to produce written work in response to art. Musa is a Malaysian-Australian poet whose international influence is soaring; his new collection is Killernova....