Upcoming Masterclasses
Maggie O'Farrell
One of Britain’s most acclaimed and popular contemporary authors, Maggie O'Farrell is the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 for her bestselling historical novel Hamnet.
Dates: 15 – 20 November 2024
Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie is the internationally-renowned author of eight novels. Her novel Home Fire won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2018.
Dates: 24 – 29 November 2024
Esther Freud
Esther Freud is the internationally bestselling author of Hideous Kinky and will publish her tenth novel in 2025.
Dates: 23 - 28 February 2025
Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst is the author of seven novels, and won the Booker Prize 2004 for The Line of Beauty.
Dates: 2 - 7 March 2025
Previous Masterclasses
Monica Ali
March 2024
Monica Ali is the internationally bestselling author of five books, including Brick Lane and Love Marriage.
Clover Stroud
February- March 2024
Clover Stroud is the author of three acclaimed Sunday Times bestselling memoirs: The Wild Other, My Wild and Sleepless Nights and The Red of My Blood.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
November 2023
Abdulrazak Gurnah is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021.
Shehan Karunatilaka
November 2023
Shehan Karunatilaka is the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.