The event is part of Lambeth Readers and Writers festival by and in collaboration with Round Table Books.

Heart Lamp is a short-story collection, originally written in Kannada language, translated into English by Deepa Bhasthi. The twelve stories depict the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. www.andotherstories.org/heart-lamp-s...

"You can make noise in libraries and that noise can be really, rather wonderful,” Edmund de Waal said.

The speakers highlighted the importance of libraries in different parts of the world, with artist and writer Edmund de Waal talking about a library of sanctuary in the US, a library of translation in SE Asia, and a library of play and clay in the UK.