Manchester gallery opens textile archive show tracing mill-town design
A new exhibition reconnects industrial pattern books with contemporary British makers.
Oxford literary salon hosts climate fiction night
Writers debate hope, despair and scientific accuracy on the page.
An Oxford literary salon devoted an evening to climate fiction, with novelists and scientists arguing over how much hope, despair and technical accuracy a mainstream novel can carry.
Audience questions lingered on whether young readers want catastrophe or repair stories first.
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