Kingston, Brealey and Bedard to perform at Women’s Prize virtual showcase

Alex Kingston, Louise Brealey and Irene Bedard will be performing extracts from the Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist at the prize’s annual virtual festival.

A trio of events running from 23rd May to 25th May will take place live online, chaired by author and prize co-founder Kate Mosse and beginning at 7pm, where festival attendees will have the opportunity to put forward their questions to the authors. 

Kingston, who has starred in “ER” and “Doctor Who” will be reading Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees (Penguin), “Sherlock” star Brealey will perform an extract from Maggie Shipstead’s Great Circle (Transworld), while Bedard, star of “Westworld” and the voice of Disney’s 1995 film “Pocahontas”, will perform from Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence (Little, Brown).

They join the previously announced Gillian Anderson, Naomie Harris and Jason Isaacs, who will be reading from Meg Mason’s Sorrow and Bliss (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini (Myriad Editions) and The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (Canongate) respectively. 

Tickets can be bought for £10 for a single night, or £25 for all three.