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On Food and Community: Sami Tamimi From the personal to the political: what and how we eat says so much about who we are. Tamimi talks with Chitra Ramaswamy about food as a symbol of resistance, celebration and community… Andy Burnham & Steve Rotheram: Another Way – Politics Post-Westminster 25 years since the Devolution Act, two English city Mayors come together to offer rare insight into politics from outside the Westminster bubble. In Head North, the Mayors of Greater Manchester and the Liverpool City Region, Andy Burnham and Steve… Nicci French: Partners in Crime How can someone just vanish without a trace? Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? is the breathless new thriller from Nicci French: ‘compelling, moving, and beautifully written’ according to the Guardian, the story spans 30 years, from a woman’s… Colm Tóibín: The Call Of Home One of our finest contemporary writers, Colm Tóibín returns with Long Island: sequel to prize-winning masterpiece, Brooklyn. Penned with characteristic wit, compassion, and quietude, the novel reunites with Eilis Fiorello who is compelled to return to… Robert Harris: Scandalous Notes A prime minister writes obsessively to the young women he’s infatuated with, sharing the most sensitive matters of state. Precipice by multi award-winning author of multiple bestsellers, Robert Harris, is set in 1914 and tells the thrilling story of an… Rachel Cusk: A Carousel of Lives Rachel Cusk is arguably one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British literature, widely celebrated for her ability to fold the momentous into the seemingly mundane. The celebrated author of the Outline trilogy returns to the Festival… James Crawford: Traces of the Past The search for hidden landscapes drives the work of Shetland-born author James Crawford, whose books have explored borders, lost buildings, and – in conjunction with his BBC series Scotland from the Sky – the views revealed by photography from the air… Adrian Tchaikovsky: Future Tense (with Aliens) Arthur C Clarke Award-winning Adrian Tchaikovsky is a sci-fi legend, celebrated for his epic world-building. He talks to Ann Landmann, exploring what imagining distant futures can teach us about our earthly world. Have sci-fi writers been ahead of the… Michael Ondaatje: Roots and Restlessness If you know Michael Ondaatje’s beautiful, lyrical fiction, you won't be surprised to learn that over 50 years ago the Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient began his career as a poet. Today, in a special digital event, Ondaatje shares his first… Polly Atkin: Interior Lives, Exterior Worlds In this digital event, Polly Atkin speaks with Caro Clarke about the glorious strengths and limitations of the body, mind, and our natural world. In her latest book Some of Us Just Fall, a lyrical blend of memoir, nature writing and pathography, Atkin… Make a Supersonic Beano Comic Make a supersonic Beano comic*! Beano’s Directors of Mischief and Mayhem, Mike Stirling and Craig Graham reveal their top tips for creating laugh-out-loud stories and pictures, share jokes from their latest Beano Boomic, Minnie and the Camp of Chaos, AND… Joseph E Stiglitz: The Road To Freedom Winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph E Stiglitz this year publishes The Road to Freedom, which takes on the concepts of neoliberalism and free market economics by questioning their effect… Tim Spector: Go with Your Gut Food gives us life, yet diet misinformation abounds. Bestselling author and epidemiologist Tim Spector is here to separate fact from fiction – and to reassure us that we can love our bodies and food equally. Drawing on new research, Food for Life is an… Andrew O'Hagan: How the Mighty Have Fallen A celebrated London professor falls from grace in Andrew O’Hagan’s new novel, Caledonian Road. Immersive and Dickensian in ambition, it’s a brilliant state-of-the-nation novel about privilege and what’s really going on behind high society’s façade. As… Mishal Husain: Family, Unravelled Journalist, newsreader, and presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Mishal Husain delves into her family’s past in her memoir, Broken Threads. Connecting fragments from her family history through letters and diaries, Husain discovers how her…