UEA Live hosts Nick Hornby and Simon Mayo
By: Communications
UEA Live returns this February for its Spring 2025 season, with an impactful line-up of authors: best-selling author and UEA alumni Emma Healey, Oscar-nominated screenwriter and award-winning author Nick Hornby, writer and broadcaster Simon Mayo MBE, critically acclaimed author Natasha Brown, and award-winning author and food writer Kate Young.
To book tickets, or for further information, visit the UEA Live website.
Nick Hornby
Multimillion selling author and film writer Nick Hornby, who changed the genre of the football memoire and memorably explored what it means to be a man through his work, will appear at UEA Live on Thursday 27 February. The event will be hosted at Lecture Theatre 1 on the University of East Anglia (UEA) campus at 6.30pm.
Hornby, whose novels Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and About a Boy all became hugely successful films, will talk about his life and work.
Simon Mayo
Broadcaster and author Simon Mayo MBE also appears at UEA Live to talk about his latest novel Black Tag on Saturday 1 March (2pm), appearing in Lecture Theatre 1 on the UEA campus.
Simon Mayo is one of Britain’s best loved radio presenters, and presented for more than two decades on BBC Radio from 1981, including presenting the Radio 1 Breakfast show for five years from 1988 to 1993, and a highly successful talk programme on BBC Radio 5 live.
He is also well-known as the co-presenter of Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review on Radio 5 Live and presented the Radio 2 Drive programme and the Radio 2 Book Club show. He regularly podcasts on books, film and popular culture.
Mayo now presents the Simon Mayo Drivetime on Greatest Hits radio on weekdays.
Natasha Brown
Date: Monday 17 March, 6.30pm
Location: Drama Studio
Following soon after, critically acclaimed novelist Natasha Brown joins us in conversation about her newest work Universality: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power. Through a voyeuristic lens, her second novel focuses on words: what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean.
Named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2023, Brown’s debut novel Assembly was shortlisted for awards including the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Orwell Prize for Fiction.
Kate Young
Date: Thursday 15 May, 6.30pm
Location: Dragon Hall
Author and food writer Kate Young rounds off this inspiring season of UEA Live, as we welcome her to campus to talk about her first novel Experienced – a queer romcom set in Bristol.
Young is known for her award-winning Little Library Cookbooks, which feature recipes inspired by beloved works of literature.
Emma Healey
Kicking off the spring season, UEA alumni and best-selling author Emma Healey (Elizabeth Is Missing) returned to campus on Wendesday 12 February to discuss her new novel Sweat, for an event in partnership with the National Centre for Writing.
Healey studied an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2010, before going on to write Whistle in the Dark, and Elizabeth Is Missing – the latter of which is a Sunday Times Bestseller, winner of the Costa First Novel Award and was adapted into a BBC film in 2019.
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