John Boyne The Weight of Angels

Join the internationally bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as he imagines an alternativee future for Oscar Wilde. What if, instead of suing the Marquess of Queensberry for libel when faced with a homophobic insult, he had simply ignored it? Boyne will discuss his imagined future for the feted playwright, in which he gets to witness the momentous and cataclysmic events of the early twentieth century, rather than dying in penury in Paris at the age of 46.

Talking to Professor Emma Smith