Welcome to Calibre Conversations, our first online book festival celebrating our 50th anniversary. This event promotes audiobooks and the well-being reading brings. We also emphasise the importance of accessibility and representation in books. Follow our socials to discover new authors and titles and stay updated on upcoming interviews!

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Lisa's first novel,  Ralph’s Party (1999) was the best-selling debut novel of the year. Since then she's published twenty-one novels, including Then She Was Gone, The Family Upstairs and None of This is True, which won two awards at the 2024 British Book Awards. 

Audiobook narrator Julia Franklin and Maisie Thomas author of the popular ‘The Railway Girls’ interview each other about their respective careers.  

Disabled writer, speaker, and content creator, talks about her book “How to Do Life With a Chronic Illness” based on her lived experiences and demonstrates why for the past three years has been named in the Disability Power 100 as one of the most influential disabled people in the UK.  

Author and historian talks about the amazing story behind his book “The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation”. 

Pamela Aculey, Mark Magnante and Karen Newell come together to share their experiences in the publishing and media industries and discuss the need for better representation of disability and accessibility in those areas.

Author of books for young adults talks about her unputdownable debut novel “The First Move” and why it was important to her to have a wide representation of characters in her story. 

Children’s author, radio producer and podcast host Joe inspires us to get creative talking about his book “Art is Everywhere”.

Award nominated author of children’s and young adult novels talks about growing up in the Philipines and about the inspiration for two of her captivating novels “Bone Talk” and “Wild Song”. 

The writing and illustrating duo team up again to tell us all about their exciting children’s series “AdventureMice”. 

Three of the seven authors of "The Magazine Girls" share their fascinating stories and experiences on popular magazines between the 1960s and 1980s. Listen to the interview via the link beneath here.

Musician and member of iconic British rock band Suede gives us an insight into his writing career and becoming an author. We discuss his latest book “The Ghost Theatre” - a gripping and fantastical tale of a group of misfit actors in Elizabethan London. Watch the interview or listen to the audio below.