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Ben & Grace are in control for our Young Adult special edition of The Storybox Podcast 2017. Taking inspiration from author Olivia Levez's latest book, The Circus, they discuss their favourite circus skills and there's even a quickfire quiz! We then tune in to the Q&A session recorded at the YA Feminism Panel with authors Alwyn Hamilton, Laure Eve and chair Samantha Shannon.

The Storybox podcast is produced by WordPlay; to find out more about them and to get in touch, just visit www.wordplayeducation.co.uk/

Join Khallum, Iris & Logan as they look back over this week’s Storybox festival events. Our young reporters caught up with illustrator Paul Stickland, learnt a lesson or two on how to create superhero comic strips with author & illustrator Kate Scott & Alex Gunn and even heard an exclusive performance from the cast of Adventures in Wonderland!

Storybox 2017 is our children’s and YA book festival taking place across all our shops in London, Bristol, Birmingham and Chelmsford.

To see the full line-up for this year's festival, just visit http://www.foyles.co.uk/storybox

The Storybox podcast is produced by WordPlay; to find out more about them and to get in touch, just visit http://www.wordplayeducation.co.uk/

Join Tess & Felix for the final edition of The Storybox Podcast, covering events in the final week of our 2016 festival.

In this episode, we get up close with author David Solomons, hear radio plays performed live from the festival, and catch up with our National Events Co-ordinator, Meg!

Storybox 2016 is our children’s and YA book festival taking place over three weeks across all our shops in London, Bristol and Birmingham.

The Foyles Storybox podcast is produced by WordPlay http://www.wordplayeducation.co.uk/

Join Callum & Jasmine as they look back over this week’s Storybox festival events.

Storybox 2016 is our children’s and YA book festival taking place over three weeks across all our shops in London, Bristol and Birmingham.

In this episode, we give writer & illustrator Viviane Schwarz a call, we get messy printmaking with illustrator Leigh Hodgkinson, and our very own Head of Promotions, Marion, takes us on an audio tour of our flagship store to find THE best spots to read!

For more about Storybox festival and to see the full line up of events, visit http://www.foyles.co.uk/storybox

The Foyles Storybox podcast is produced by WordPlay http://www.wordplayeducation.co.uk/

This edition of The Storybox Podcast is hosted by festivalgoers Maggie and Hamish as they look back over the first week of the Storybox festival, to share with you interviews with fantastic authors and illustrators, reports from creative workshops, and general Storybox audio fun.

Storybox 2016 is our children’s and YA book festival taking place over three weeks across all our shops in London, Bristol and Birmingham. For more about the events taking place and to book, visit www.foyles.co.uk/storybox

In this episode we play hide and seek with author and illustrator Dave Barrow, Mrs Phelps from Matilda the Musical performs a very special reading for us, and illustrator Yuval Zommer shares his top tips for drawing bugs! We also caught up with Foyles staff member Fraser to find out his reading habits.

Special thanks to everyone who appeared in our podcast and to our fabulous young reporters across all the stores. Enjoy!

The Foyles Storybox podcast is produced by WordPlay http://www.wordplayeducation.co.uk/

Throughout the 2016 Foyles Storybox Festival, this will be the place to hear festival news, behind the scenes reports, and fantastic author interviews. Brought to you from us - the festival goers!

Keep an ear out over the next few weeks for three episodes straight from the festival, and head over to www.foyles.co.uk/storybox for full details about the summer events.

The Foyles Storybox Podcast is produced by WordPlay http://www.wordplayeducation.co.uk/

What happened to the future? Verso authors Owen Hatherley and Douglas Murphy seek to explode the distortions of history that obscure our present and future in their new respective books 'The Ministry of Nostalgia' and 'Last Futures'.

Excavating the lost archeology of the present day, Douglas Murphy’s 'Last Futures' is a fascinating, mind-bending cultural history of the last avant-garde. Through a cast of architects, dreamers, thinkers, hippies and designers, Murphy diagnoses the source of our current situation and steers us towards powerful alternative futures.

In a sharp, witty polemic, Owen Hatherley skewers the contemporary nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed. Why, in an age of austerity, have we adopted the gospel of luxurious poverty, from ubiquitous 'Keep Calm and Carry On' posters to the ‘artisinal’? The Ministry of Nostalgia reaches across a depleted cultural landscape to demand more for our society—after all, Hatherley argues, why should we have to 'Keep Calm and Carry On'?

Chaired by Shumi Bose, architectural writer, historian, editor and teacher at Central St Martins responsible for coordinating Contextual Studies for BA Architecture: Spaces and Objects, covering architectural history, theory and broader cultural issues.

This event was organised in association with New Humanist.