Naomi Alderman: Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today

A photo of Naomi, a white woman with long dark hair, sitting on a bench with a book in her hands.

Sat 25 Oct

5pm - 6pm

Award-winning novelist, TV producer and videogames creator Naomi Alderman brings her era-defining book on living through the information crisis, three weeks before its release date!

The internet has flooded us with more knowledge, opinions, ideas, opportunities, as well as verbal attacks and misinformation than ever before. It lets us learn more quickly and spread falsehood more quickly, it brings us together and divides us in new ways, it is now the lens through which we perceive and understand the world. There is no going back. But we have been here before.

Drawing on the work of philosophers and historians, Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today, developed from her ground-breaking Radio 4 essay series, explores how new technology opens up new ways of being and helps us chart a way forward (once again), through the turbulent seas of information overload.

This event is followed by book sales and signing with Waterstones.

Tickets: £12

"Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today is a serious ― and also very funny ― history of how we got to this point in the information revolution and a wise guide to navigating our way through it. Essential reading for the 21st century."

Erica Wagner

Naomi Alderman

Naomi Alderman is an award-winning novelist, TV producer and videogames creator. She is the author of the bestselling The Power (Penguin Books 2017), winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and since adapted for TV by Amazon Prime. Her other books include The Future (2023), The Liars’ Gospel (2013), The Lessons (2010) and Disobedience (2006). Naomi writes and presents Human Intelligence, the history of thinkers from Socrates to Mary Wollstonecraft to Malcolm X on BBC Radio 4. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.