Building a Better World with Words

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Online, Thursday 2nd July

Building a Better World with Words LIVE: Emilie Pine and Christine Dwyer-Hickey.

Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature invite you to this online event with award-winning Irish authors Emilie Pine and Christine Dwyer-Hickey. They'll be discussing their works in conversation with Deirdre O'Byrne from Nottingham's Five Leaves Bookshop and Alison Lyons, Director of Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.

Emilie Pine is the author of Notes to Self which won the An Post Irish Book of the Year in 2018 and Christine Dwyer Hickey has written many novels including the 2020 Dublin One City One Book choice Tatty and her most recent novel The Narrow Land which has just won the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. There will be the opportunity to ask questions in an audience Q&A session at the end of each event, and you will be able to buy copies of the featured books from Five Leaves Bookshop's website.

All the events of the programme are free. They are easy to access online, too. We're using Zoom to host the events, so simply register using the Get Tickets link below and make sure you've downloaded Zoom to your device before we start.

The event will be BSL interpreted live, and later made available as a captioned video on our YouTube channel.


Date:
Thursday 2nd July
Time:
7.00pm
Price:
Free - Registration required

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