St Peter's Square
Thu 15 Oct · 08:00
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. A Manchester Literature Festival event supported by Library Live. 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. Book tickets here or click ‘Book Now’ below
Not the same tradition as the lineage above — a genuinely different thread to pull, if you want one.