Professor Brad Evans has published How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in a Post-Industrial Heartland, a powerful non-fiction book about the post-industrial landscape of South Wales. Rejecting narratives of resilience, How Black Was My Valley is a journey into a community's unhealed wounds, a poignant testament to voices once silenced, now demanding to be heard. Professor Evans is the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Bath. He is the author of 20 books and edited volumes and has written for news outlets such as The Guardian, The New York Times and The Independent, among others. He also served as director on the 10 years of Terror project concerning the 9/11 attacks. Copies of How Black Was My Valley will be available to purchase on the day. No booking required. Free of charge.