Kamila Shamsie, ‘Home Fire’ (Being Human)

Over the last 20 years Kamila Shamsie has established herself as one of the most vital and interesting novelists at work today. Her books, often grand in scope yet always emotionally intimate, have captured the minds and hearts of readers across the world. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and winner of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, join Kamila as she discusses her latest novel, Home Fire with Swansea University’s Professor in Creativity, Owen Sheers.

A re-telling of Sophocles’s Antigone in a contemporary landscape of jihad, a security state and the pressures of radicalisation upon family, love and friendship, Home Fire is a tour de force that powerfully illustrates how fiction can not only capture the present moment but also present the most challenging of its questions with empathy and insight.

The discussion will be followed by a Q&A and book signing.