by Simon appleby | Sep 6, 2020
To mark the 200th anniversary of Anne Brontë’s birth, enjoy conversation, graphic artworks and live readings from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Join novelist and poet Jackie Kay, award-winning British graphic novelist Isabel Greenberg, acclaimed actor and director...
by Simon appleby | Sep 6, 2020
Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize, Bernardine Evaristo, discusses Girl, Woman, Other with Creative Scotland’s Mairi Kidd. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, her extraordinary novel follows a cast of...
by Simon appleby | Sep 6, 2020
Author Katherine Webber meets with two leading lights of YA fiction for a discussion about writing, reading and finding your place in the world. Juno Dawson is a journalist, screenwriter and bestselling writer of books including This Book is Gay, Meat Market and...
by Simon appleby | Sep 6, 2020
Broadcaster Paul Waters talks to Irish and British crime writers about their latest novels, what they tell us about society’s preoccupations, and how the genre might reflect on today’s global crises. Jane Casey’s The Cutting Place is set in the dark world of London’s...
by Simon appleby | Sep 6, 2020
Social divisions are the stuff of great fiction – but they’re also a very real challenge for many people today. So how can novelists tackle class, race and politics without being reductive or biased? How can they write sympathetic characters whose views or actions...
