Fiction

Tessa Hadley in Conversation with Bernie McGill

Friday 1 August | 1.30pm | £12

Tessa Hadley is the internationally acclaimed author of eight novels including Accidents in the Home which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and most, recently, The Past, Late in the Day and Free Love. She has published four short story collections: Sunstroke, Married Love, Bad Dreams and After the Funeral which won the 2024 Edge Hill Short Story Prize, following her previous win with Bad Dreams in 2018.Her most recent book, The Party, was published to critical acclaim at the end of last year. She won the Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction in 2016, and The Past won the Hawthornden Prize for 2016.

‘[Tessa Hadley] is one of the best fiction writers writing today.’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

‘Few writers give me such consistent pleasure.’ Zadie Smith

Bernie McGill is the author of two novels, The Butterfly Cabinet (2010) and The Watch House (2017), and two short story collections, Sleepwalkers and This Train is For …, which won the 2023 Edge Hill Prize.