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    Close Read: Merve Emre on To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

    Saturday 13 August 17:00 - 18:30

    Close Read: Merve Emre on To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Book
    Why not try? Workshop: Beyond the Body with Andrew McMillan Workshop: Beyond the Body with Andrew McMillan Sun 28 Aug 10:00 - 13:00
     

    Daniel Hahn: The Translator’s Craft and Graft

    Sunday 14 August 12:15 - 13:15

    Daniel Hahn: The Translator’s Craft and Graft Book
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    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...
     

    Merve Emre & Daniel Mulhall: Mrs Dalloway Meets Buck Mulligan

    Sunday 14 August 13:30 - 14:30

    Merve Emre & Daniel Mulhall: Mrs Dalloway Meets Buck Mulligan Book
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    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...
     

    James Buchan & Alex Preston: Literary Time Travel

    Monday 15 August 10:00 - 11:00

    James Buchan & Alex Preston: Literary Time Travel Book
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    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....
     

    Rupert Thomson: Homage to Catalonia

    Monday 15 August 10:15 - 11:15

    Rupert Thomson: Homage to Catalonia Book
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    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...
     

    Jo Browning Wroe & Daniel Wiles: Tragedy on an Industrial Scale

    Monday 15 August 14:15 - 15:15

    Jo Browning Wroe & Daniel Wiles: Tragedy on an Industrial Scale Book
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    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: What Did Lockdown Do to Us?

    Monday 15 August 16:15 - 17:15

    Sarah Moss: What Did Lockdown Do to Us? Book
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    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...
     

    Domenico Starnone: Trust Translated

    Monday 15 August 18:15 - 19:15

    Domenico Starnone: Trust Translated Book
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    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...
     

    Michèle Roberts: Three Women and the Artist Matisse

    Thursday 18 August 15:30 - 16:30

    Michèle Roberts: Three Women and the Artist Matisse Book
    Why not try? Georgi Gospodinov: Time is Out to Get Us Georgi Gospodinov: Time is Out to Get Us Fri 19 Aug 10:30 - 11:30
     

    Audrey Magee: Still Waters Run Deep

    Thursday 18 August 16:30 - 17:30

    Audrey Magee: Still Waters Run Deep Book
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    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...