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The book that changed my world

Our London Literature Festival is the longest running celebration of the written and spoken word of its kind in the capital.

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Originally posted Tue 18 Oct 2022

For its 2022 edition the festival as ever, featured huge literary stars, rising talent, and household names in a series of talks, and conversations. On the eve of the festival we cornered seven of its participants – among them writers, poets and a well-known comedian – to ask ‘what book changed your world?’

Jessie Greengrass wears red framed glasses and stands outside against a grey sky

Jessie Greengrass

A black and white portait of Guy Gunaratne

Guy Gunaratne

Elias Jahshan of This Arab is Queer stands in a suburban street, there are parked cars behind him

Elias Jahshan

Sheen Patel in a white shirt stands in front of a dried tree trunk in an arid landscape

Sheena Patel

Nova Reid stands against a white wall in a patterened white dress; flowers in a concrete pot sit on a shelf next to her

Nova Reid

Joelle Taylor stands at a microphone on a stage, a drumkit is behind her

Joelle Taylor

Josh Widdicombe sits cross-legged against a blue background, just visible are oversized childs' building blocks about to topple on him

Josh Widdicome