Raja Shehadeh: To Absent Fathers
In 1985, Raja Shehadeh’s father Aziz was murdered in a pre-meditated knife attack. The circumstances of the crime are the subject of his Strangers in the House. Today, through his new memoir, Shehadeh sheds a different light on the father-son relationship that still influences him 37 years on. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father And I is the Palestinian author’s finest, most profoundly moving book to date. He appears in conversation with Esa Aldegheri.
Book Festival News
Our response to today's statement from Fossil Free BooksWednesday 15 May
Watch more
Maggie Nelson: The Many Meanings of Freedom
Peter Scott-Morgan: Rewiring Humanity
Alberto Manguel and Miguel Syjuco (2010 event)
Ian Rankin: A Rebus for the Dark Times
Jamaica Kincaid: Write Out of Defiance
John Pilger
Sarah Smith: Hear No Evil
Can Artists Still Break the Rules? Revisiting Strategy: Get Arts
Roy Hattersley at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Bernardine Evaristo with Nicola Sturgeon: The Triumph of Girl, Woman, Other