Poet and researcher John Challis interviews Neil Astley, founder and editor of Bloodaxe Books, in a series of five in-depth interviews. Recorded and edited by…
David O’Hanlon-Alexandra is joined by Philip Gross, Olivia McCannon and Robert Shepard via zoom to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘A Defence…
Tishani Doshi reading and in conversation with John Challis via zoom. This event was organised in partnership with GemArts as part of the 2021 Masala…
As a screenwriter, Courttia Newland has written episodes of Steve McQueen’s 2020 BBC series Small Axe: ‘Lovers Rock’ and ‘Red, White and Blue’. This event…
Award-winning novelist Jon McGregor returns with a stunning novel that mesmerizingly and tenderly unpicks the notion of heroism and explores the indomitable human impulse to…
Courttia Newland reading and in conversation with Tina Gharavi via zoom. This event took place on 20th May 2021.
Jon McGregor reading and in conversation with Rachel Hewitt via zoom. This event took place on 13th May 2021.
Diary of a Film (Hachette, 2021) is a novel about cinema, flâneurs, and queer love – it is about the sometimes troubled, sometimes ecstatic creative…
Niven Govinden reading and in conversation with Preti Taneja via zoom. This event took place on 6th May 2021.
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (Bloomsbury, 2020) is the extraordinary sequel to the award winning international bestseller, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, by Natasha Pulley…
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