About This Event

Join us as we celebrate some of this year’s hottest debut fiction. Eden Mckenzie-Goddard 's Smallie is an exhilarating and expansive tale of a family thrown into collision with the Windrush scandal, while Divya Maniar 's After Care is a piercing exploration of consumerism, the attention economy and the addictive nature of online fame. Monika Radojevic ’s Strangerland is a soaring, emotionally rich story about the power of love to transcend languages, borders and time and Djamel White 's Booker-longlisted All Them Dogs is a thrilling, gritty fever-dream of violence, desire and masculinity set in West Dublin's gangland. They talk to Coco Khan about becoming a novelist in 2026, the stories they’ve chosen to tell and what the future holds. There is a book signing after this event . Get ahead of your Festival reading and visit the Waterstones Cheltenham Literature Festival bookshop and support Cheltenham Festivals with every purchase.

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