Shifting between three intertwining narratives, Mongrel reveals a tangled web of desire, isolation, belonging and ultimately, hope. An exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the UK as the threads of their lives twist and entangle in unexpected ways.

An event for parents with Author, Educator, Doctoral Researcher and Award-winning Youth Advocate, Anu Adebogun. No subject is off limits in her brilliant new guide to life for young people. From frenemies, crushes and consent to mental health, family dynamics and online addiction, this book will be the big sister you wish you had – answering all your most pressing questions, offering reassurances and helping you to understand your rights.

Join two award-winning authors of the magical, fantastical and mysterious, Gareth Brown and Anne Corlett, as they discuss their latest novels with local, Sunday Times Bestselling-author Chris Sugden.

We all know our physical age, but what is our emotional age? Join us for a workshop with The School of Life. Most of us long to be more emotionally mature and better able to face life’s challenges with poise, confidence, kindness and good-natured intelligence. We want to be proper grown-ups. But to become so means, first and foremost, that we have to understand the many curious ways in which we might not currently be as mature as we would have hoped.

Join us at Caper for an evening with Joanna Miller as we celebrate the release of her captivating debut novel, The Eights.

Join us at Caper as Granta debut novelist Issa Quincy talks to Tom de Freston about his book Absence. An elusive narrator is beguiled by a poem that returns to him in mysterious ways, echoing across the years.