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Kaliane Bradley & Holly Gramazio: Brilliantly Weird, Weirdly Brilliant

Saturday 10 August 12:30 - 13:30

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Kaliane Bradley and Holly Gramazio discuss their time-bending novels of romance, comedy, and life-altering portals with Nyla Ahmad. In Bradley’s The Ministry of Time, the government is experimenting with bringing ‘ex-pats’ from the past into the 21st…
 

Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson: Sci-Fi's New Heroes

Saturday 10 August 14:00 - 15:00

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Travelling through time, dismantling space empires, and saving the world: just a few of the things Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson’s characters get up to in her epic space opera, The Principle of Moments. Today, she speaks about her debut novel with Jess Brough…
 

Festival Gala: A Toast to the Future

Saturday 10 August 17:00 - 18:30

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Our Future Tense theme asks us all to consider the kind of future we want to share. In tonight’s gala event, we bring you a kaleidoscope of perspectives and provocations, from the hopeful to the portentous. Be inspired, challenged, and delighted by…
 

Close Read: Irenosen Okojie on Octavia E Butler

Sunday 11 August 10:15 - 11:15

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Why not try? Book Talk: Industry Insights for Writers Book Talk: Industry Insights for Writers Mon 19 Aug 12:30 - 18:30
 

Naomi Alderman & Irenosen Okojie: What Happens Next

Sunday 11 August 17:30 - 18:30

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In Naomi Alderman’s satirical sci-fi novel The Future, three tech billionaires attempt to save themselves from the collapse of civilisation. In Curandera, Irenosen Okojie’s time-slipping novel, we switch between 17th century Cape Verde and multicultural…
 

Camilla Grudova & Irenosen Okojie: Dark, Daring Fiction

Monday 12 August 16:00 - 17:00

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Join two award-winning writers who are unafraid to dabble in darkness as Camilla Grudova and Irenosen Okojie discuss the art of experimental fiction with Jess Brough…
 

Naomi Alderman: The Future is Here

Monday 12 August 18:45 - 19:45

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Naomi Alderman’s bestselling speculative novel, The Power, won her the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was one of Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2017. Her new novel, The Future, is as hilarious as it is unnerving: a wild heist featuring tech giants…
 

Rosemary Goring: Mary Stuart's Homecoming

Tuesday 13 August 10:30 - 11:30

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Despite spending just 12 years in Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots irrevocably shaped the nation; she inhabits our imagination like no other monarch. In Homecoming, literary editor Rosemary Goring ‘breathes life into this legendary queen’ (Southern Reporter)…
 

Agnes Arnold-Forster & Caroline Crampton: Body and Mind

Tuesday 13 August 10:45 - 11:45

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In Nostalgia, historian Agnes ArnoldForster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of emotions and medicine to chronicle the changing social attitudes to this slippery and ‘dangerous’ emotion. In A Body Made of Glass, Caroline Crampton…
 

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Future Tense (with Aliens)

Tuesday 13 August 20:30 - 21:30

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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…