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Tom Crewe
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Aidan Cottrell-Boyce
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Santanu Bhattacharya
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Matthew Stadlen

New Writers of Fiction

Tom Crewe, Maddie Mortimer, Aidan Cottrell-Boyce and Santanu Bhattacharya Chaired by Matthew Stadlen

Friday, 31 March 2023

4:00pm

1 hour

Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building

£7 - £12.50

Debut novelists Tom Crewe, Maddie Mortimer, Aidan Cottrell-Boyce and Santanu Bhattacharya discuss their new books and the challenges of writing and publishing their first works of fiction.

Crewe has a PhD in 19th-century British history and is an editor at the London Review of Books. His novel, The New Life, is a story of forbidden love set in 1890s London. Crewe says his story is about the future but set in the past. His characters struggle with what it means to be ahead of their time.

Mortimer’s short films have screened at festivals and she is co-writing a television series. Her novel, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, is the story of a family coming to terms with the death of a mother. It is a story of motherhood, anatomy, language and the darkness within us.

Cottrell-Boyce is a former parliamentary candidate for the Green Party whose short fiction has appeared in The White Review and Granta. His novel, The End of Nightwork, is a story of a fateful illness, a failing marriage, and a 17th-century apocalyptic prophet.

Bhattacharya is winner of the Mo Siewcharran Prize, the Life Writing Prize and a London Writers’ Award. His first novel, One Small Voice, is a story of violence and prejudice, friendship and loyalty, and coming of age, set in modern India.

Discussions are chaired by former LBC radio host and BBC presenter Matthew Stadlen.

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The Feathers Hotel Woodstock festival hotel The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels Sponsor of the festival crime fiction programme Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller International Literary Properties Supporters of the festival green room The Dorchester Hotels Collection Festival London hotel partner Italian Embassy Supporter of Italian programme Republic of Panama Event generously supported by Republic of Panama Cervantes Institute, London Spanish Embassy Event generously supported by the Spanish Embassy Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Owen Mumford Supporter of programme of science and medicine and annual science and innovation award BBC World Service International radio partner Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme European Union Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom Netflix University of Oxford FT Weekend Title partner Marlene Hauser Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Jill Dunsmore David Isaac Carole and John Allen Lucian Hudson Pank Koria CEO of Project People Masumi and Jonathan Dobson Miles Young Emily Rose and James Marrow Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture George Warren Lady Hatch Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture John Roberts Trinity College Trinity College St Cross College St Cross College Lincoln College Lincoln College Worcester College Worcester College New College Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies British Academy Royal Academy of Arts Project People Institute of Hospitality Thje Menu Partners Foodbuy Jewish Book Week Partner of Jewish programme Bantam Doubleday Doubleday Transworld TORVA Books which change you, your mind, your world Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Compassion in World Farming Pasture to Plate Oxford Brookes University Oxford University Images Oxford University Images The Sheldonian Theatre Critchleys Accountants to the festival CAV Oxford Felicity Bryan Associates Conference Oxford Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Paul Bloomfield Ltd Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner The Oxford Times Regional media partner Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily Schoolreaders The Litmus Partnership K T Bruce Photography K T Bruce Photography Ox in a Box OX magazine Siren Communications Siren Communications - corporate consultants Chêne Bleu Wines of Provence The Wild Geese James Currey Society Pusey House Confucius Institute Literature Ireland Flip through Flanders