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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.
Thanks to tireless advocates like Daniel Hahn, literary translation has begun to enjoy a higher profile. Now, Hahn shines a new light on the process in Catching Fire – a diary of his work reimagining Diamela Eltit’s Spanish-language novel Never Did...
Virginia Woolf ’s Mrs Dalloway and James Joyce’s Ulysses: two novels that defined modernist literature. Today, Merve Emre, a critic and Oxford University Professor, presents The Annotated Mrs Dalloway, painting a rapturous portrait of Woolf ’s...
Brace yourself to travel back to 18th century Britain. James Buchan’s A Street Shaken By Light is the swashbuckling tale of a young Scot, William Neilson, who leaves Edinburgh in 1720 in search of his fortune, encountering shipwrecks and skulduggery....
The New Statesman observed, ‘when someone writes as well as Thomson does, it makes you wonder why other people bother’. Barcelona Dreaming uncovers the surreal underbelly of the Ciudad Condal in three linked novellas. Thomson has lived in a number...
In debuts of striking imaginative reach, two novelists measure the human cost of the UK’s coal mining industry. Jo Browning Wroe’s A Terrible Kindness explores the 1966 Aberfan disaster when a colliery landslide buried a Welsh school, told by the...
Sarah Moss reflects on lockdown in her eighth novel, The Fell, set in the Peak District. She follows four characters – in particular, the mother of a worrisome teenager – negotiating safety, fellow feeling and freedom in the context of government...
We welcome Domenico Starnone to celebrate the English edition of his 2019 novel, Trust, translated by Jhumpa Lahiri. Starnone has written over 13 books, earning him Italy’s highest literary prize, the Strega. In Trust, lovers Pietro and Teresa tell...
Two men arrive on an island, one to paint it, the other to record its speech. Amid their rivalry, the islanders discover their own relationship with the place they call home. Audrey Magee’s second novel, The Colony, tackles questions of identity, art...