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  • From The Tattooist of Auschwitz to Cilka’s Journey

    Southbank Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United Kingdom

    Find out what happened to The Tattooist of Auschwitz’s Cilka Klein from author Heather Morris as she discusses her latest novel at a London-exclusive event.

    £15 – £35

  • A Celebration of the Life and Work of Eva Ibbotson

    Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United Kingdom

    To celebrate the reissuing of three of her adult novels – among them The Morning Gift and The Secret Countess – featuring Jewish heroines, and ahead of a forthcoming biography, her friends and colleagues Nicola Beauman, Amanda Craig and Marian Lloyd discuss her writing and her legacy.

    £9.50

  • The Fashion Revolution: From Berlin to London

    Kings Place 90 York Way, London, United Kingdom

    A panel discussion focussing on two new publications, with Daniel Snowman, Michael Gee, Uwe Westphal, author of Fashion Metropolis Berlin1836-1939: The Story of the Rise and Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry and Anna Nyburg, author of The Clothes on our Backs: How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade.

    £14.50

  • George Szirtes: the Dual Perspective of an Exile

    The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom

    The prize-winning poet and translator will talk about his experience as a member of the Second Generation, his parent’s background in the camps, coming to the UK as a refugee from Hungary in 1956 and the creative process.

  • Darkness at Noon

    Virtual Event

    David Herman will chair a panel discussion about Arthur Koestler and his classic 1940 novel Darkness at Noon, the ultimate indictment of the evils of Stalinism and all totalitarian regimes.

  • Zweig in London

    When novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer Stefan Zweig arrived in London in 1934, exiled from his native Vienna by the rising tide of Nazism, he was at the height of his literary career.

  • Edmund de Waal and Tom Stoppard

    Two writers, Edmund de Waal and Tom Stoppard, will discuss the themes and concerns they share in Leopoldstadt and The Hare with Amber Eyes

  • Susannah Wise: This Fragile Earth

    Virtual Event

    Susannah Wise in conversation with playwright Amy Rosenthal about the lived experience of inherited trauma and her much-praised debut novel, This Fragile Earth

    Free

  • Jennifer Langer: The Search

    Virtual Event

    Dr Jennifer Langer in conversation with fellow poet Dr Aviva Dautch about her debut poetry collection The Search & about Exiled Writers Ink

  • Simon Parkin: The Island of Extraordinary Captives

    Virtual Event

    Join British journalist and author Simon Parkin for a talk to coincide with the publication of his new book. Painstakingly researched from dozens of unpublished first-hand accounts and previously classified documents

  • Charmian Brinson: Working for the War Effort

    Virtual Event

    Prof. Charmian Brinson talks about her fascinating new book, Working for the War Effort: German-Speaking Refugees in British Propaganda during the Second World War.

    Free

  • Edith and Kim: A Novel by Charlotte Philby

    Virtual Event

    Charlotte Philby, granddaughter of Kim Philby, talks about her riveting new novel, Edith and Kim, published on 31 March by HarperCollins.

    Free