The Department Store, 5 Oak Street
Thu 15 Oct · 19:00 · £10
This event is now on sale to MLF Get Closer Members. Tickets go on general sale 10am Thursday 13 August. Memberships start at £25 per year - for full details click HERE . Two of Northern Ireland’s most acclaimed, contemporary authors, Louise Kennedy and Wendy Erskine, join BBC 6 Music broadcaster Deb Grant for an unmissable conversation about storytelling and identity. Louise Kennedy ( Trespasses ) introduces Stations , one of the most anticipated novels of 2026, a moving and immersive story of first love, friendship, freedom and reinvention that spans decades and explores the choices that echo throughout our lives. Wendy Erskine ( Dance Move ) discusses The Benefactors , her Women’s Fiction Prize-longlisted novel: a bold, darkly funny and razor-sharp examination of class, power, motherhood and social exclusion in contemporary Northern Ireland. Louise Kennedy is the bestselling author of Trespasses , winner of multiple awards including Debut Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, and the acclaimed short-story collection The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac . Wendy Erskine is the award-winning author of Sweet Home and Dance Move , a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, broadcaster and interviewer and works as a secondary school teacher in Belfast. Wheelchair Users and those with other access needs requiring a free Essential Carer ticket should contact the Quaytickets Box Office on 0161 876 2015 to purchase tickets.
Not the same tradition as the lineage above — a genuinely different thread to pull, if you want one.