Thursday 22 September

Litmus
With Maggie Gee and Matthew Cobb & Alison MacLeod and Denis Noble

6pm • Tickets: £8 (£7 Students)*
Books and TV programmes about science – an awesome source of stories about human perseverance, rivalry, passion and genius – have never been so popular. In a unique new anthology, Litmus, fiction writers and scientists collaborate to bring key moments of modern science alive through the art of story-telling. Authors Maggie Gee and Alison MacLeod discuss their stories with Professor of Zoology Matthew Cobb (specialist in the genetic basis of animal behaviour) and Professor Denis Noble (eminent cardiologist, whose work lead to the creation of the first virtual heart).

*Combined ticket offer for both events on 22nd - £14/£12 (students)

Groundbreaking Stories
With Robert Coover and Yiyun Li

8pm • Tickets: £8 (£7 Students)*
Robert Coover's stories cemented his reputation as a landmark figure in postwar American fiction. Reissued as a Penguin Modern Classic, Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid playfully subverts the familiar folk tale and pornographic literature. "Coover is a magician and these are his spells" (John Banville). Yiyun Li's mesmerising stories in Gold Boy, Emerald Girl are reports from the frontline of modern China, where she grew up. Selected by the New Yorker and Granta as one of the most talented young American writers, she won the prestigious Frank O'Connor Short Story Award.

*Combined ticket offer for both events on 22nd - £14/£12 (students)
Supported by EFG Private Bank