An international group of writers are launching their first anthology at the Book Festival, with an imaginative and thought-provoking look at the modern world. AI is rising and threatening to change our way of life, so The Tea Set has invited it over for afternoon tea and a slice of moist lemon drizzle cake. The result is Tasseomancy with hugbot and fukbot, an eclectic mix of poems, stories, and images from nine creative women exploring what AI means in their world. It’s a collaboration on every level, from the ideas to the design, and was realised across countries, crises, and time zones. There are robots and romances, murderers and moments of…

At this year’s Herts Book Festival, St Alban’s based publisher The Endless Bookcase will be launching a brand new imprint: Unheard Voices. An Arts Council funded initiative, Unheard Voices will provide a means by which homeless authors or authors with lived experience of homelessness can be supported to have their work, be it fiction, poetry or creative non-fiction, published and marketed. The homeless voice is an under-represented one in mainstream literature, but this new imprint will give homeless people an opportunity to put that right. At the launch, Dr Neil Deuchar, former psychiatrist, Endless Bookcase author and current series editor for the new imprint, will give a short introduction. Then…