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    Torrey Peters: Modern Families, Baby

    Saturday 14 August 17:30 - 18:30

    Torrey Peters: Modern Families, Baby
    Detransition, Baby is the fizzing debut novel from American author Torrey Peters, a modern story about motherhood, sex, relationships and chosen family. Reese is a trans woman in her 30s who desperately yearns for motherhood when Ames, her former lover...
     

    Cherie Jones: Behind the Barbadian Picture Postcard

    Monday 16 August 16:15 - 17:15

    Cherie Jones: Behind the Barbadian Picture Postcard
    Barbados: the iconic location of runaway honeymoons, white sandy beaches, turquoise and diamond seawater, palm trees and cocktails. Cherie Jones tells a different tale, revealing the hidden – or rather ignored and invisible – side of this supposedly...
     

    Monique Roffey: Conjuring the Spirit of the Caribbean

    Available from 13:15 on Tuesday 17 August

    Monique Roffey: Conjuring the Spirit of the Caribbean
    The Mermaid of Black Conch is an adventurous novel set on a Caribbean island, deploying magic realism to tell very real truths about the region and its history of colonisation and slavery. We are thrilled to welcome its author to the Festival to talk...
     

    Rachel Kushner: Postcards from America

    Tuesday 17 August 19:15 - 20:15

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    Rachel Kushner: Postcards from America
    ‘Clarice Lispector had a diamond-hard intelligence, a visionary instinct and a sense of humour that veered from naïf wonder to wicked comedy.’ This snapshot of the great Brazilian writer is from an essay in Rachel Kushner’s new book The Hard...
     

    Iman Mersal: The Limits and Pleasures of Egyptian Womanhood

    Wednesday 18 August 16:15 - 17:15

    Iman Mersal: The Limits and Pleasures of Egyptian Womanhood
    Iman Mersal is a major figure in international literature, an Egyptian poet whose work is characterised by her ardently experimental style. Her latest novel, Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al-Zayyat), was published in 2019 and...
     

    Carmen Maria Machado: The Language of Violence

    Wednesday 18 August 19:00 - 20:00

    Carmen Maria Machado: The Language of Violence
    'The word ‘archive’', Carmen Maria Machado tells us (by way of Derrida), 'comes from the ancient Greek ‘arkheion’: the house of the ruler.' This note is important because Machado’s In the Dreamhouse is a book about memory, about power and...
     

    Val McDermid: The Winter of Our Discontent

    Thursday 19 August 14:30 - 15:30

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    Val McDermid: The Winter of Our Discontent
    The fan club for Val McDermid’s books just keeps growing – lapping up each new novel featuring either DCI Karen Pirie or Tony Hill and Carol Jordan. But whether you’re an old hand or new to McDermid’s work, there’s something special this...
     

    Eva Baltasar & Lina Meruane: Body Politics

    Thursday 19 August 16:15 - 17:15

    Eva Baltasar & Lina Meruane: Body Politics
    Rebecca Solnit has argued that ‘every illness is narrative’ and Lina Meruane’s novel Nervous System certainly gives credence to that view. It centres on a woman named Ella who, in struggling to finish her PhD, becomes fixated on the functions and...
     

    Scholastique Mukasonga: Reclaiming Rwanda’s Stories

    Friday 20 August 14:15 - 15:15

    Scholastique Mukasonga: Reclaiming Rwanda’s Stories
    The genocide of 1994 in Rwanda continues to cast a long shadow over the country – and over its European colonisers. Belgian colonists and missionaries originally favoured Rwanda’s minority Tutsi people (even devising an ‘ethnic identity card’ in...
     

    Vivian Gornick: A Map of American Feminism

    Friday 20 August 16:00 - 17:00

    Vivian Gornick: A Map of American Feminism
    In an age of instant opinions and the daily social media rush from one outrage to another, it’s refreshing to read the words of an 85 year old writer who insists on taking her time. In fact, Taking a Long Look, Vivian Gornick’s latest essay...

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