Birmingham Literature Festival

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Birmingham Lit Fest Presents....

Monthly Writers' Blog: August 2021
























August 2021: Elizabeth Lee




We asked Elizabeth Lee, whose debut novel Cunning Women was recently published, to write this month's blog.








“August has been a month of sunlight and storms, both literal and figurative.



“As I walk the canals and fields I’m lucky enough to live by, the air is sometimes bright and hot, sweet with pollen and busy with insects, sometimes filled with needle-sharp rain and biting winds. Always, somewhere, the shouts and laughter of children enjoying freedom from school can be heard.



“On a larger scale, the news feels like a series of earthquakes....











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Birmingham Lit Fest Presents.... Live Online Events








Elizabeth Day: Magpie

Wednesday 29 September, 7pm

















Join us for our virtual event with bestselling novelist and award-winning journalist Elizabeth Day, where Elizabeth will be talking to fellow writer and journalist Sathnam Sanghera.



Described as ‘an absorbing exploration of infertility and mental illness combined with the pace and plot of a heart-racing thriller’, her latest book Magpie is a tense, twisting, brilliantly written novel about mothers and children, envy and possession, and the dangers of getting everything you’ve ever dreamed of.



Elizabeth will be in conversation with journalist and novelist Sathnam Sanghera whose latest work Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain is a Sunday Times bestseller and explores Britain's imperial past and its influence on modern life in Britain.



Wednesday 29 September 2021

7pm - 8pm

Online via Zoom Webinar

Ticket holders will then be sent a link to the recording of the event which they can watch for 7 days after the event has taken place.

Tickets: £5 per household

Live captioning and Q&A available











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Podcast: new episodes


Before we return for full-length podcast episodes in the autumn, we're delighted that the monthly blogs we've so far commissioned this year have now been recorded and are available on our podcast feed.



January (Thomas Glave); February (Abda Khan), March (Michael Amherst, read by Ceri Morgan), April (Sue Brown), May (Maisie Chan), June (Roy McFarlane), July (George Bastow) and this month's with Elizabeth Lee are on the podcast feed now.








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Birmingham Literature Festival | a project of Writing West Midlands

Writing West Midlands is an Arts Council England NPO.













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