Saturday 13 August 16:15 - 17:15
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- BSL interpreted
If you didn’t know Georgia Pritchett from the hilarious shows she’s written for (Succession, Smack the Pony, The Thick of It) then her shelf full of awards, including five Emmys and a BAFTA, would be enough to convince you of her talents. In her new...
Saturday 13 August 16:30 - 17:30
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To write on sex, consent and desire after the cultural shifts of the last decade is not easy – but this event brings together two writers who have penned unflinching books on these topics. The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan and Tomorrow Sex Will Be...
Sunday 14 August 14:15 - 15:15
Meet two writers who are forging their own paths. Claire Askew’s second collection, How to Burn a Woman, is a tale of power and resilience. She’s joined today by poet and writer Salena Godden, whose debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death is a daring,...
Sunday 14 August 15:45 - 16:45
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Meg Mason’s breakout bestselling novel of love, family and mental health, Sorrow and Bliss, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and dubbed ‘the book you have to read this summer’ by the Evening Standard. Comparisons have arisen to...
Age 12+
Sunday 14 August 16:30 - 17:30
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Join award-winning US authors Kalynn Bayron (Cinderella is Dead, This Wicked Fate) and Renée Watson (Piecing Me Together, Love is a Revolution) in conversation with the founders of Black Girls’ Book Club, Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A Carter...
Monday 15 August 20:15 - 21:15
Booker-Prize finalist NoViolet Bulawayo joins us to discuss the ruthlessness of absolute power and the hope that underpins resistance. In her razor-sharp Glory, a long-serving leader falls and a country implodes. Bearing witness to the chaos, a goat...
Tuesday 16 August 12:15 - 13:15
Mieko Kawakami’s award-winning early novel, Breasts and Eggs, divided opinions: the conservative governor of Tokyo called it ‘unpleasant and intolerable’, while Irish novelist Naoise Dolan holds ‘Mieko Kawakami is a genius’. In today’s...
Tuesday 16 August 18:15 - 19:15
Black girls and women take some time off from being on their Sunday best behaviour in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw. In these refreshing short stories, female lives are seasoned with desire, despite the restrictions imposed by...
Wednesday 17 August 14:15 - 15:15
Get inspired to build the life you need with two writers who created homes against the odds. In Nancy Campbell’s memoir Thunderstone she finds herself in possession of the first home she’s ever owned. It’s a caravan and inside it, she has to fit...
Wednesday 17 August 14:30 - 15:30
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- Captioned
Monica Ali, the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Brick Lane, introduces her first novel in a decade, Love Marriage, a vital exploration of love, family and the modern world. Yasmin Ghorami is due to marry fellow junior doctor Joe Sangster, the son of...
Announcing our Communities Programme and Citizen events this August 
