Sylvia Nasar and Kate Atkinson

Our fabulous double bills are back – bringing you three big nights of international writers, presented back-to-back. From genre-bending fiction bestsellers to young adult authors with cult followings, and non-fiction superstars who’ll change the way you view the world … we’ve got a little something for everyone. You can cherry-pick your favourite authors and book individual events, or make a night of it and see two authors at once. It’s up to you.

6:45pm – 7:45pm and 8:30pm – 9:30pm (includes a 45 minute interval).

Sylvia Nasar’s mega-bestseller A Beautiful Mind was ‘perhaps the best economics-related book of the past quarter-century’, according to the New York Times. In Grand Pursuit, this master storyteller traces the birth and progress of modern economics, which grew from the idea that humans can determine our own lives, on a society-sized scale. She traces this relatively new idea from the days of Dickens, to Marx and Engels, then the current day … making economic history matter. Sylvia will be joined in conversation by Christine Kenneally.

(This session can also be booked separately here.)

Kate Atkinson’s first book, Behind the Scenes of the Museum, beat Salman Rushdie to win the Whitbread Book of the Year. Since then, she’s captured readers’ hearts with her tough-but-empathetic Yorkshire PI, Jackson Brodie. Her latest book, the wildly inventive Life After Life, is shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction – and hotly tipped for this year’s Booker. What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you got it right? The characters in this genre-bending book get just that. Atkinson will be in conversation with Sue Turnbull.

(Tickets for this session only can be booked here.)

Kate Atkinson is presented in association with Sisters in Crime.