Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 24 May
6:45 PM - 9:30 PM
Our fabulous double bills are back – bringing you three big nights of international writers, presented back-to-back. From genre-bending fiction bestsellers to young adult authors with cult followings, and non-fiction superstars who’ll change the way you view the world … we’ve got a little something for everyone. You can cherry-pick your favourite authors and book individual events, or make a night of it and see two authors at once. It’s up to you.
6:45pm - 7:45pm and 8:30pm - 9:30pm (includes a 45 minute interval).
Sylvia Nasar’s mega-bestseller A Beautiful Mind was ‘perhaps the best economics-related book of the past quarter-century’, according to the New York Times. In Grand Pursuit, this master storyteller traces the birth and progress of modern economics, which grew from the idea that humans can determine our own lives, on a society-sized scale. She traces this relatively new idea from the days of Dickens, to Marx and Engels, then the current day … making economic history matter. Sylvia will be joined in conversation by Christine Kenneally.
(This session can also be booked separately here.)
Kate Atkinson’s first book, Behind the Scenes of the Museum, beat Salman Rushdie to win the Whitbread Book of the Year. Since then, she’s captured readers' hearts with her tough-but-empathetic Yorkshire PI, Jackson Brodie. Her latest book, the wildly inventive Life After Life, is shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction – and hotly tipped for this year’s Booker. What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you got it right? The characters in this genre-bending book get just that. Atkinson will be in conversation with Sue Turnbull.
(Tickets for this session only can be booked here.)
Kate Atkinson is presented in association with Sisters in Crime.
Featuring
Kate Atkinson
Kate Atkinson won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, and has been a critically acclaimed international author ever since.
Her most recent four bestsellers featured the former private detective Jackson Brodie: Case Histories, One Good Turn, When Will There Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog. She was appointed MBE in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Christine Kenneally
Christine Kenneally is an award-winning journalist and author who has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Slate, Time, New Scientist, Scientific American, the Monthly, BuzzFeed and other publications. She writes about identity, culture, and science, and her stories have covered death in 20th century orphanages, brain surgery, emergency communications, and animal thought.
She was a senior contributor at Buzzfeed News for 4 years, working on an American orphanage story. Published in August 2018, the story was viewed more than six million times in six months and was nominated for a National Magazine Award and two Deadline Awards. Her books, The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures and The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language, are published by Penguin and Black Inc.
Before becoming a reporter, Kenneally received a Ph.D. in linguistics from Cambridge University and a B.A. (Hons) in English and Linguistics from Melbourne University. She was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, and has lived in England, Iowa, and Brooklyn.
Sylvia Nasar
Sylvia Nasar is the author of A Beautiful Mind, which inspired the Academy-Award-winning movie and was translated into 30 languages.
She was an economics correspondent for The New York Times and is the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Newsweek and other leading publications, and her new book is Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius.