Category: Female Author
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10 Feb 2026 – Morgan Is My Name – Sophie Keetch (Author in attendance)
A bold, reimagined Arthurian tale reclaiming Morgan as a complex and powerful woman. Sophie Keetch challenges myth, history, and gendered storytelling with confidence and emotional depth. The author will be joining us. This promises a rich discussion about power and prophecy. We will explore who gets to shape the stories we inherit. Historical fiction that…
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10 Mar 2026 – Tu Hwnt – Short story collection
Tu Hwnt — meaning ‘beyond’ — is a collection of short stories rooted in Wales and reaching outward. These are stories of edges and in‑between spaces, written with care and ambition. Short stories reward close reading and shared discussion, making this an ideal CardiffRead pick. Expect multiple voices, sharp insights, and moments of quiet brilliance.…
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14 April 2026 – Super-Infinite – Katherine Rundell
Part biography, part intellectual adventure, Super-Infinite is Katherine Rundell’s exhilarating exploration of the life and mind of John Donne. Rundell does not follow a conventional cradle-to-grave account. Instead, she uses Donne as a jumping-off point to explore poetry, science, theology, and love. She also delves into the sheer strangeness of being alive. Written with wit…
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12 May 2026 – I Can Hear the Cuckoo – Kiran Sidhu
I Can Hear the Cuckoo is a quietly luminous novel. It explores themes of grief, solitude, and the natural world. Kiran Sidhu writes with great attentiveness, allowing landscape, seasons and daily rituals to shape the emotional life of the story. At its heart, this is a novel about withdrawal and return. It explores what happens…
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11 Aug 2026 – The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley
The Ministry of Time is a bold, genre-defying novel that blends speculative fiction, romance and political satire. At its centre is a government programme. It brings people from the past into the present. These actions have unexpected emotional consequences. Kaliane Bradley uses the framework of time travel to explore love, power, bureaucracy and historical responsibility.…
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8 Sept 2026 – Endling – Maria Reva
Endling is a darkly comic, politically sharp novel that explores extinction, nationalism and survival in unsettling ways. Maria Reva’s writing is bold, inventive and unafraid to take risks. The novel mixes satire with moments of real emotional weight. It examines what societies choose to protect. It also considers what they are willing to sacrifice. Reva’s…
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12th November 2024 – Drift by Caryl Lewis
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEBUT FROM THREE-TIME WINNER OF WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR CARYL LEWIS: A STORY OF LOVE, MAGIC AND THE IRRESISTIBLE LURE OF THE SEA. Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery cove. Hamza is a Syrian mapmaker,…
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8th October 2024 – Kindred by Octavia Butler
‘The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by’ GUARDIAN ‘One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had’ JUNOT DIAZ —In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer.In 1815, she is assumed a slave. When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he’s drowning.…
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13th August 2024 – When Our Worlds Collided by Danielle Jawando
A powerful coming-of-age story about chance encounters, injustice and how the choices that we make can completely change our future – the second YA novel from multi-award-winning Danielle Jawando. ‘Jawando’s writing is incredibly raw and real; I felt completely immersed’ Alice Oseman When fourteen-year-old Shaq is stabbed outside of a busy shopping centre in Manchester, three teenagers…
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9th July 2024 – Marple: 12 Stories
A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime’s legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors. This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie’s Marple through their own unique perspective…
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14th May 2024 – Hagitude by Sharon Blackie
‘There can be a perverse pleasure, as well as a sense of rightness and beauty, in insisting on flowering just when the world expects you to become quiet and diminish.’ What is Hagitude? It means being at ease with the unique power women embody in the second half of their life. It means having a…
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9th April 2024 – The Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas
The Salpêtrière asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad or hysterical, outcasts from society. But the truth is much more complicated – for these women are often simply inconvenient, unwanted wives or strong-willed daughters. Once a year a grand…
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