The Working-Class Library – Live Podcast with special guest author

Join writer Richard Benson (The Farm, The Valley) and Claire Malcolm (New Writing North) from the Working Class Library podcast as they seek to explore and reclaim working-class people’s contribution to English literature. Their quest is to establish a new ‘canon’ of working-class books that tell a different story to the established British literary canon. For this live edition of the podcast they will be joined by special guest Kevin Barry to talk about Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, a working-class classic that they love. The podcast is a venture of The Bee, a new magazine of writing by working class writers which launches this spring. 

Tickets £5

Booking Information

• Priority Booking for Festival Friends opens at 08.00 on Friday 7th of March. Tickets go on general sale from Monday 10th March.
• Our concession tickets are available to Friends of the Festival, those on benefits and students.
• Hearing loops are available for Theatre and Library events. Carers qualify for free ‘essential companion’ tickets. Wheelchair spaces are limited. In all cases, please call the Box Office on 01434 652477 to book or email: boxoffice@queenshall.co.uk.
• Tickets cannot be refunded but can be exchanged for other Book Festival events.

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