The film features award-winning actor Ralph Ineson. The book we chose, My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal, is published by our key partner Penguin Random House UK and resonates with many of the prisoners we work with.

Making Dad's Fruitcake with
Dean O'Loughlin. For Headline Books

Masterclass by Kit de Waal

The Art of Trespass. From The National Creative Writing Graduate Fair

Kit de Waal chats to Holly Newson
for Audible UK

In conversation with Lisa Blower
Bridport Literary Festival 2022

WATCH Kit de Waal, Lynette Linton and Sir Lenny Henry chat to Salman Mirza about the BBC drama My Name Is Leon.

In conversation with Russell Kane

READ

READ - The Independent, Ireland Kit de Waal memoir review

READ - The Sunday Independent, Ireland Kit de Waal memoir extract

READ - The Irish Times, ‘I will always write stories that come from the heart’

READ - Writers Online, Meet the Author with Kit de Waal

READ - The Guardian, 'As soon as you introduce a talking horse, I'm just not interested'

READ - The Guardian, Interview - ‘Writing’s very solitary – you do it because you want to find readers’

READ - The Irish Times ‘Never swear, kiss a boy or moan’

READ - The Times Literary Supplement, Twenty Questions with Kit de Waal

READ - The Guardian, ‘I read my first novel aged 22’

WATCH

WATCH - Audible UK - Kit de Waal on Her Memoir

WATCH - Items from My Childhood with Kit de waal and Dean O'Loughlin

WATCH - Making My Dad's Fruitcake with Kit de Waal and Dean O'Loughlin

WATCH - The Casket of Fictional Delights, Kit de Waal gives advice on writing Flash Fiction

WATCH - Munster Literary Centre, In conversation with Paul Mcveigh and Niahm Campbell

WATCH - Waterstones, Common People with Kit de Waal

WATCH - Penguin, Kit de Waal on why we need more diverse writers

WATCH - Comma Press, NCWGF 2016 - Masterclass by Kit de Waal - The Art of Trespass

WATCH - News with Robbietow, Interview with Kit de Waal

WATCH - The Edinburgh International Book Festival 2021, Kit de Waal with Damian Barr

LISTEN

LISTEN - The Birmingham Lit Fest Presents...podcast, Kit de Waal in Conversation with Paul McVeigh

LISTEN - Penguin Podcast, Kit de Waal with Katy Brand

LISTEN - BBC Programmes, Front Row, Nmon Ford, Eavan Boland, Kit de Waal, London Mozart Players

Baritone and composer Nmon Ford on his new work, Orfeus, which fuses opera with house music. Plus a tribute to the great Irish poet Eavan Boland.

LISTEN - BBC Programmes, A Good Read, Kit de Waal and Nina Stibbe, Kit de Waal and Nina Stibbe talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert, including The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers.