UEA Live: Spring 2025

Wednesday 12 February | 6.30pm, The Enterprise Centre, UEA 

We are thrilled to be welcoming Emma Healey back to UEA in Spring 2025. Healey will be discussing her upcoming novel, Sweat. 

Emma Healey, multi-million copy bestselling author, returns with her highly anticipated, suspenseful page-turner boasting an unforgettable narrator.

Healey studied an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2010 and went on to write Whistle in the Dark and Elizabeth is Missing, which was a Sunday Times Bestseller, won the Costa First Novel Award, and was made into a BBC film.

The event is held in partnership with National Centre for Writing and will be followed by a book signing. 

Thursday 27 February | Lecture Theatre 1, UEA

_{Join us for an extraordinary evening with Nick Hornby, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter and award-winning author, as he shares insights into his career, passions, inspirations, and the challenges and successes of his work.}

Nick Hornby is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and award-winning author.  He has written eight novels including Just Like You, Funny Girl, Juliet Naked, A Long Way Down, Slam, How to be Good, About A Boy and High Fidelity.   His non-fiction books include Dickens & Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius, 31 Songs, Fever Pitch and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, a collection of his columns in The Believer magazine, for which he continues to write. 

Nick received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay he adapted from Colm Toibin’s novel Brooklyn.  He adapted Cheryl Strayed’s memoir for Wild and was Oscar and BAFTA-nominated for his screenplay adaptation of Lynn Barber’s memoir An Education.  He adapted Nina Stibbe's memoir Love, Nina for the BBC television series and both seasons of his TV series State of the Union won Emmys.

_{This event is hosted in partnership with Norfolk Screen who is the Official Film Office for Norfolk and supported by the UEA Film and TV Department.}

_{There will be a book signing after the event.}

Saturday 1 March | 2pm, Lecture Theatre 1, UEA 

Writer and broadcaster Simon Mayo MBE visits UEA in March for an in-conversation about his latest novel Black Tag.

His previous books include the Sunday Times bestseller Knife Edge, and Times Thriller of the Year Tick Tock. His Itch trilogy was adapted into a television series in 2020. Known for hosting Top of the Pops, Simon now hosts ‘Drivetime’ on Greatest Hits Radio and ‘The Take’, a film-review podcast with Professor Mark Kermode.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Monday 17 March | 6.30pm, UEA Drama Studio

Natasha Brown joins UEA Live’s Spring line-up to discuss her upcoming novel Universality, a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power. Her debut novel Assembly was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Orwell Prize for Fiction. In 2023, Brown was named as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists.

The event will be followed by a book signing.

Thursday 15 May | 6.30pm, Dragon Hall, Norwich

Kate Young is a writer and cook whose award-winning Little Library Cookbooks
revolve around food inspired by beloved works of literature. After a sunny Australian childhood, spent indoors reading books, she moved to London, which suited her much better. Her debut novel Experienced, a queer romcom set in Bristol, was released in summer 2024.

The event will be followed by a book signing.