Lee Bains is a songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama, who, since 2012, has released four studio albums of what Rolling Stone once called “Southern gospel punk"

Join us at Caper for the 11th (hopefully-a-bit-cooler-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.

In stories that crisscross the globe, from Uganda to Lebanon, Rwanda to Iraq, Hayden asks us: what if news was recounted through the actions people take for those they love? Would it become harder to dehumanise those who seem different to us? This is Also a Love Story dares us to recognise how love can be found in even the most difficult of times, and to question what might be needed to create a better world.

Daisy Johnson returns to Caper to discuss her latest novel, Long Wave: a hypnotic and haunting novel of motherhood, loss, and the invisible ties that bind us together.

Robert will be discussing (among many things) his lifelong passion for reading and writing, his early life in Oxford (he wasn't a student) and the future of cars and publishing. It might be quite interesting.

Join Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear, co-authors, Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile and co-hosts of The War on Cars podcast.