Exile and the experience of being a refugee in a foreign land are at the heart of new works by journalists Caroline Brothers and Kamin Mohammadi. Brothers’ novel Hinterland is an unsettling story of two young brothers who make the journey from Afghanistan to Europe with only the clothes on their back and an inheritance stitched into the lining of a belt. In Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran, Mohammadi tells the true story of her flight to the UK from Iran in 1979, at the age of nine. She returns years later to discover the history of her family. 
Together, Brothers and Mohammadi, explore whether fiction and memoir have the power to change the world.
The event is chaired by Dr Alastair Niven, principal of Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, and author of several books on post-colonial writing.