Cambridge Literary Festival

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By Elif Shafak

The award for “mould-breaking” fiction goes to a millennia-spanning epic about St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne.

By Tom Gatti

The Goldsmiths-shortlisted author on aliens, revolutionary France and our era of misinformation.

By Tom Gatti

The Goldsmiths-shortlisted author of Never Was on transness as “a tussle with history”.

By Ellys Woodhouse

The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted The Long Form on “patchwork” novels, and why childcare is a political act.

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted Cuddy on being a heathen, and why he wants to see a ghost.

By Matthew Gilley

Toxic relic or political necessity? Tanya Gold, Robert Hardman, Andrew Marr, Tanjil Rashid, Anna Whitelock and Gary Younge debate the…

By New Statesman

Despite losing his deputy Dominic Raab, the Prime Minister is seeing an improvement in the polls