Hay 2014

BRYONY GORDON
THE WRONG KNICKERS: A DECADE OF CHAOS

Event 381 • Saturday 31 May 2014, 11.30am • Venue: The Oxfam MootLike Carrie Bradshaw, Gordon may have had a column in a national newspaper, but her twenties weren’t one long episode of Sex and the City. They were a decade of hangovers, heartbreak, and hideously awkward mornings-after, all over her overdraft limit. She tells the tales to Georgina Godwin.

MONIQUE ROFFEY AND MITCH CULLIN
FICTIONS – INVENTIONS

Event 389 • Saturday 31 May 2014, 1pm • Venue: Good Energy StageSet on the fictional Caribbean island of Sans Amen, Roffey’s House of Ashes tells the story of three characters, a gunman, a hostage and a boy soldier, caught up in a botched coup d’etat. Cullin’s A Slight Trick of the Mindintroduces a nonagenarian Sherlock Holmes. In the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn’t even know he was asking – about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind’s ability to know. The authors talk to Georgina Godwin.

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
THRIVE: THE THIRD METRIC TO REDEFINING SUCCESS AND CREATING A HAPPIER LIFE

Event 410 • Saturday 31 May 2014, 7pm • Venue: The Tata TentThe Huffington Post founder argues that a successful life is made up of more than just money and success and must also include what she calls The Third Metric: personal care, health, and fulfillment. She talks to Georgina Godwin.

ALEX MONROE
TWO TURTLE DOVES: A HISTORY OF MAKING THINGS

Event 430 • Sunday 1 June 2014, 10am • Venue: The Oxfam MootGrowing up in 1970s Suffolk in a crumbling giant of a house with wild, tangled gardens, the celebrated jeweller was left to wreak havoc by invention. Without visible parental influence but with sisters to love him and brothers to fight for him, he made nature into his world. Creation became a compulsion, whether it was go-karts and guns, cross-bows and booby-traps, boats, bikes or scooters. And then it was jewellery. He talks to Georgina Godwin.

ATEF ABU SAIF AND ABDALLAH TAYEH
FICTIONS – THE BOOK OF GAZA

Event 444 • Sunday 1 June 2014, 1pm • Venue: Good Energy StageThe novelist Atef Abu Saif introduces his groundbreaking anthology of ten Palestinian writers who have been translated into English for the first time. Each story takes place in a different part of the Strip and provides a ‘literary map’, navigating its readers around the cities. He is joined by one of the contributing short story writers, Abdallah Tayeh. They talk to Georgina Godwin.