Just published, The Book of Records is a profound exploration of fate, legacy and ethics. This is the great novelist Madeleine Thien at her most ambitious, exciting, engrossing and enriching.

Bravery and resistance, selflessness and sacrifice. Serhii Plokhy gives a gripping account of the chaos and disaster at Ukraine’s nuclear plant from the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Constance Debré ripped up the rule book when she began to write about life after she came out. A manifesto, ecstatic poem and political pamphlet, Name is the searing disavowal of identity and inheritance which completes her acclaimed trilogy.

Eimear McBride’s trailblazing and vivid style is beautiful, outrageous and heartbreaking. She joins ILFD to discuss her new novel, The City Changes Its Face, and the forces that shape her writing.

Cartoonist Aimée de Jongh discusses the power of journalistic comics to show hidden places and previews her forthcoming graphic novel, inspired by her visits to refugee camps in Greece.

The queens of Drag & Draw host the hottest afternoon in town. This informal life-drawing session is a little bit art class, little bit drag show… and a whole lot of fun.