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Rachael Allen & K Patrick: The Prism of Connection

Friday 23 August 18:30 - 19:30

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Love – a fluid, overwhelming, and merciless beast – is wrangled and inspected, but never tamed in Rachael Allen’s God Complex and K Patrick’s Three Births. These poets break down barriers as they explore love and its meaning in contemporary relationships…

Irvine Welsh: Seeking Resolution

Friday 23 August 18:45 - 19:45

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When former Edinburgh Police Detective Ray Lennox seeks a new, fresh start in Brighton, it isn’t long before he’s dragged back to the murky world he’s desperate to forget. Resolution is the latest in Irvine Welsh’s Crime series and is as gripping – and…

Lotte Jeffs & Kate Young: Falling in Love Again

Friday 23 August 19:00 - 20:00

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Experienced is Kate Young’s friends-to-lovers romcom about a woman’s quest to experience all she missed before coming out. Lotte Jeff’s This Love is about ten years of friendship and love outside the lines. These two novelists, each writing beautiful…

Camilla Grudova & So Mayer: The New Weird

Friday 23 August 20:15 - 21:15

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Camilla Grudova & So Mayer: The New Weird

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The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova takes on the absurdity of tradition, labour, and Britishness with humour and horror. So Mayer is no longer able to appear in this event and it will go ahead with Camilla Grudova in conversation with Eris Young…

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David Nicholls: The Journey is the Destination

Friday 23 August 20:30 - 21:30

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Karl Geary & Tom Newlands: Growing Up Sat 10 Aug 19:15 - 20:15

Sanah Ahsan & Seán Hewitt: Poetry in Motion

Friday 23 August 20:45 - 21:45

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Sanah Ahsan & Seán Hewitt: Poetry in Motion

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Two versatile poets come together to discuss the distances travelled in their new collections. Sanah Ahsan’s I Cannot Be Good Until You Say It takes us across emotional and physical landscapes, meditating on Queerness and Islam, while Rapture’s Road by…