*SOLD OUT* Sarah Wynn-Williams CARELESS PEOPLE with Stephanie Merritt

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Join us for an evening with Sarah Wynn-Williams at Blackwell's Oxford in conversation with Stephanie Merritt.

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Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams's Careless People was one of the non-fiction sensations of 2025. A hugely praised - and award winning - bestselling account of Sarah's time as Global Policy Director at Facebook, Meta secured a ruling against Sarah on publication day preventing her from promoting the book, or indeed saying anything critical or ‘otherwise detrimental’ about Meta.Due to these ongoing legal restrictions, Sarah is barred from speaking about her book or from saying anything negative about her former employer. Instead, Sarah will join us to share her thoughts and invite engagement on a wider, more urgent conversation: how did we lose control of the Internet, and is it possible to reclaim it? From the decay of the online world to the new geopolitics of AI, as power shifts from governments to platforms, this is a rare chance to hear from a woman who has stood at the nexus of global diplomacy and big-tech power—and lived to share the tale at great personal cost.Sarah Wynn-WilliamsSarah Wynn-Williams is a former New Zealand diplomat and international lawyer. She joined Facebook after pitching a job and worked there for many years, ultimately becoming director of global public policy. After leaving the company, she has continued to work on tech policy, including artificial intelligence.Stephanie MerrittStephanie Merritt is the author of 14 books, including the bestselling Elizabethan historical crime series written as SJ Parris, which has sold over a million copies in the UK. She is a former Deputy Literary Editor of The Observer, where she continues to contribute articles on books and current affairs, and has written for a variety of other newspapers and magazines. She appears regularly on Radio 4 and as chair and presenter at literary and arts festivals, including the Hay, Cheltenham and Edinburgh book festivals. Her most recent novel is Traitor's Legacy, which was a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller.

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SOLD OUT Sarah Wynn-Williams CARELESS PEOPLE with Stephanie Merritt

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