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The Search for Identity, Love and Belonging: Being young in Cork and Amsterdam
Tobi Lakmaker’s account of coming of age in Amsterdam is a frank and funny journey through the highs and lows of one’s 20s, and a story of making peace with one’s identity and sexuality. Lisa McInerney’s novel is a riotous blend of sex, scandal, love, feminism, gender, music, and transgression against the background of today’s changing Ireland.
Writing the Climate Crisis: Eco activists and tech billionaires
Birnam Wood pitches the interests of a group of eco activists against those of an American billionaire, who plans to extract rare minerals. Collective ideals and ideologies are tested in this gripping, thought-provoking, tightly plotted novel. Full of moral complexity, Birnam Wood captures our collective despair about the state of the planet.
Storytelling from Novels and TV Scripts to Video Games
The Future, the latest novel from the Women’s Prizewinning, bestselling author of The Power, is a thrilling exploration of the world we have made and where it is that we are heading. A dystopian tale of digital technology and community, The Future follows a group of tech billionaires facing the end of the world. Naomi Alderman will talk about her novel as well as about her creative career as a games designer and a lead writer on the reality game Perplex City and as co-creator of the game Zombies, Run!