Our bookseller is The Bookshop on the Green in Bournville, who will be present at our events in October and November 2022.
We’re delighted to have read and loved the books featured in our online and in-person events, blogs and workshops over the last few months. We’ll release a full booklist when the programme is announced on 1 August 2022.
Birmingham Literature Festival 2022 book list:
Zaffar Kunial, England’s Green
Jim Crace, eden
Casey Bailey, Please Do Not Touch
Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Cane, Corn & Gully
Jasmine Gardosi, Hurtz
Roy McFarlane, The Healing Next Time
Roy McFarlane, Living by Troubled Waters
Michael Rosen, Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death and the NHS
Sukh Ojla, Sunny
Kit de Waal, Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
Osman Yousefzada, The Go Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds
Adrian Chiles, The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less
My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
Harriet Johnson, Enough: The Violence Against Women and How to End It
Mary Ann Sieghart, The Authority Gap: Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it
Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk
Monica Ali, Love Marriage
Sam Friedman, The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged
Nathalie Olah, Steal as Much as you Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity
Kasim Ali, Good Intentions
Sarah Winman, Still Life
Hashi Mohamed, A Home of One’s Own
Vicky Spratt, Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain’s Housing Emergency
Kate Mosse, Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World
Darran Anderson, Inventory: A Memoir
Wendy Erskine, Dance Move
Caleb Femi, Poor
Liz Berry, Black Country
Liz Berry, The Dereliction
Wendy Joseph QC, Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
Dr Shahed Yousaf, Stitched Up: Stories of Life and Death from a Prison Doctor
Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
Sam Baker, The Shift
Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies
Parwana Fayyaz, Forty Names
Kathryn Mannix, Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations
Kathryn Mannix, With the End in Mind
Christina Patterson, Outside, the Sky is Blue: The Story of a Family Told with Searing Honesty, Humour and Love
Alison Jean Lester, Absolutely Delicious: A Chronicle of Extraordinary Dying
Ania Bas, Odd Hours
Liz Hyder, The Gifts
Elizabeth Lee, Cunning Women: A Feminist Tale of Forbidden Love After the Witch Trials
Susan Stokes-Chapman, Pandora
Jo Browning-Wroe, A Terrible Kindness
Jason Cowley, Who Are We Now?
Ruth Jones, Love Untold
Courttia Newland, A River Called Time
Sali Hughes, Everything is Washable and Other Life Lessons
Roger Robinson and Johny Pitts, Home is Not a Place
Yomi Sode, Manorism