January 28, 2020

Programming a major literature festival in 2020, says festival director Ahlam Bolooki, is about responding to the times: 'We've looked around us at the world and we see questions.'

This year's featured authors at London Book Fair bring together children's books, Arab world poetry, and social observation from an Irish icon.

The Manchester-based Portico Library Prize—focused on the country's North—finds its winner in a native of Sunderland.