Han Kang is the recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and in 1994 she began her career as a novelist by winning the Seoul Shinmun Spring Literary Contest. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, won the 2016 International Booker Prize. Her following novel, Human Acts won Korea’s … Read More

“1975 is the most beautiful and sympathetic dance response to traditional Irish Music I have ever seen” – Martin Hayes “1975 is an iconic traditional Irish music recording that now has an equally powerful and iconic dance partner” – Martin Hayes (Martin Hayes is recognised as Ireland’s greatest living traditional fiddle player) “Seeing Naoi Déag Seachtó Cúig transported me right back … Read More

James Muldoon is a sociologist whose work explores the human side of artificial intelligence and other technologies. He is Associate Professor in Management at the Essex Business School and a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute.

Something amazing happens when Hothouse Flowers step onto the stage – something that has been shaped by over forty years of singing and playing all over the world, yet no two shows have ever been the same! There is a sense of musical adventure, an impulse to reach new heights and depths in music where the unspoken aim is that … Read More

Sam McBride is the Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Independent. He also writes on Northern Ireland for The Economist. His first book, Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite, became a Sunday Times bestseller. His second book, For and Against a United Ireland, co-written with Fintan O’Toole, won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs … Read More

Naoise Dolan is a writer from Dublin. She is the author of the novels Exciting Times (2020) and The Happy Couple (2023). She won the 2021 Hawthornden Prize and has been shortlisted and longlisted for prizes including the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Dylan Thomas Prize. She has performed her … Read More

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a British-Iranian author, advocate, and public speaker whose experience has become one of the most prominent examples of wrongful detention and state hostage diplomacy in recent years, both in the UK and internationally. Detained in Iran in 2016 while travelling with her young daughter, Nazanin spent six years imprisoned and under house arrest before securing her release … Read More

Kevin Macdonald is a director and producer of fiction and documentary films. His work includes the Oscar winning films One Day in September and The Last King of Scotland, the BAFTA winning Touching the Void and the Last King of Scotland. Other films include Marley, The Mauritanian, State of Play, High and Low: John Galliano, Life in a Day and … Read More

Jimmy Wales is a American-British Internet entrepreneur best known for founding Wikipedia.org, as well as other wiki-related organizations, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Fandom. His debut book entitled ‘The Seven Rules of Trust’ will be published simultaneously by Bloomsbury in the UK and Crown Currency in the US on the 28th October 2025. Wales received … Read More

Erling Kagge is a Norwegian explorer, writer, philosopher and art collector. He has spent his life testing the limits of the physical world and human mind and is the first person in history to reach the North Pole, South Pole and the summit of Mount Everest on foot. Kagge has sailed across the Atlantic twice, rounded Cape Horn, sailed to … Read More