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The Cambridge Literary Festival Can arts reach people in a way that politics so far has not? This year’s Cambridge Literary Spring Festival from April 16th-19th poses this question and many more as they welcome Caroline Lucas MP as Guest Director on their Climate Crisis programme with an emphasis on solutions.
Caroline Lucas MP
who brings to us once again her three debut novelists. Number one bestselling author of How Not To Be a Boy Robert Webb is launching his debut novel Come Again.
Dieter Helm will introduce
From Eastenders to
his new book, Green and
the House of Lords,
Prosperous Land, a practical
Michael Cashman’s
plan to rescue and enhance
memoir describes his
the British countryside,
journey from a cruel
while Mike Berners-Lee will
Dickensian childhood to the dignity of being a peer. Award-
set out his handbook of
winning author of 2017 sensation Ma’am Darling: 99
Michael Cashman
inspiring ideas both to tackle the climate emergency and, in
glimpses of Princess Margaret Craig Brown brings his next, a
the process, live more fulfilling lives.
unique, multifaceted examination of The Beatles in 1-2-3-4.
A major session led by Ann Pettifor, one of the seminal thinkers who has influenced US Democrat candidate Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, will put forward the Green New Deal, a bold programme of decarbonisation, with the
Guardian journalist Hadley Freeman recounts the experience of discovering her Grandmother’s secrets, House of Glass, takes Hadley from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island and Auschwitz.
potential to transform an economic model that is failing the
In a country that seems more divided than ever, the festival
majority of people. Nature is celebrated too, with Mary
looks at these rifts and what’s caused them. Talks from A C
Colwell, author of the acclaimed Curlew Moon, award-
Grayling, David Lammy MP, refugee and now barrister Hashi
winning author and
Mohamed, political journalist Polly Toynbee and opening the
naturalist Mark
Disunited Kingdom
Cocker and former
theme a discussion
frontman of The
between Fintan
Undertones, Feargal
O’Toole, David
Sharkey, speaking
Reynolds, Catherine
about his work to save our riverbeds.
Barnard & Robert Marian Keyes
Saunders.
Jacqueline Wilson
Marian Keyes makes an eagerly awaited debut as part of her
There are also great events for children - everyone’s favourite
sell-out tour of new book Grown- Ups. Eimear McBride with
Jacqueline Wilson will be here, Robin Stevens is back, Dr
Strange Hotel and Anne Enright with her latest novel Actress
Max and Isabel Thomas join them in a packed Children’s
join Marian to make up a trio of Irish novelists. Other
Programme.
storytellers Michael Frayn, Tessa Hadley and James Scudamore will be here as well as festival patron Ali Smith
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