A new local literary festival provided the perfect opportunity to record the very first Book Club Review live. Kate is joined by author and broadcaster Bee Rowlatt, whose books include the best-selling Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad, which went on to be dramatised by the BBC, and In Search of Mary inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft. Bee also runs the Wollstonecraft Society, a human rights charity. Her debut novel, One Woman Crime Wave, is a novel that explores the realities of wealth, influence, and inequality in present-day London and offers plenty of talking points for book club discussion and debate. Join our festival audience to hear more about Bee's life and work and why Mary Wollstonecraft and her writing has never been more relevant.

Books mentioned

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Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship by Bee Rowlatt

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

In Search of Mary by Bee Rowlatt

Letters Written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft

One Woman Crime Wave by Bee Rowlatt

An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestly

Uprising by Tahmima Anam

Feminism for a World on Fire by Natasha Walter

Notes

Find out more about The Mary Wollstonecraft memorial sculpture (The Guardian)

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