Hedgehog Hugh returns to Caper to celebrate the publication of two great new books. Tickets free but booking still required please.

We’re delighted to welcome back the wonderful Robin Ince – irrepressible all rounder, brilliant raconteur and a passionate champion of books and ideas. Join us as Robin talks about Let the Quiet Ones Rise: Poems about standing up and standing out and his book Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal – What if being a bit weird is actually entirely normal?

Join us at Caper for the 10th (is-it-summer-yet-edition) of our monthly spoken-word open mic nights. These evenings are run by local authors (and Caper staff), and are designed to be an encouraging, creative, inclusive space for writers who want to share their prose works in progress, across all genres.

We are delighted to be able to welcome the author Nora Lange to Caper, in conversation with critic Jude Cook, talking about Nora's debut novel Us Fools – a 'tragicomic, award-winning novel of two precocious sisters coming of age during the midwest farm crisis in 1980s America' as well as her short fiction collection Day Care - stories of lust, estrangement, and self-preservation which are at once hilarious and savage.

The kitchen has always been a complex space for women: a place of labour and gendered expectations, as well as a site of nourishment, care and company. But how does this change when you’re alone, not cooking for family or friends, but simply for yourself? What happens when food is uncoupled from domestic duty and romantic relationships and what it means to cook (or not) for yourself and by yourself.

Author Craig Taylor talks to James Attlee about his new novel, Floaters, set on, in and around the Thames. Funny, fast-paced, and heartfelt, Floaters is a coming-of-age caper capturing the generational moment when youthful despair turns to fearless action.

In her newly translated novel Enchantment, Finnish author Riikka Pulkkinen weaves a complex story of power, identity, and the fragile boundary between truth and fiction. Join Riikka and her translator Tabatha Leggett in a conversation spanning literary representations of girlhood, the gaze of the camera in art, and the challenges of translating fragmented and metafictional narratives.

Humanity faces an imminent choice: continue with a system built on extraction and endless growth, or reimagine civilization itself. Leading thinker Jeremy Lent offers that reimagination: an ecocivilization, grounded in proven design principles of ecosystems and in humankind's evolved inclination toward justice, mutuality, and dignity.