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Jason Allen-Paisant & Colin Grant on Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire’s masterpiece of exile and homecoming, Return to my Native Land – beautifully translated by John Berger – is now a Penguin Classic. To c…
1 year, 5 months ago
Hannah Regel & Emily LaBarge: The Last Sane Woman
In her first novel The Last Sane Woman (Verso) poet Hannah Regel investigates the pains and pleasures of artistic practice carried out against the od…
1 year, 5 months ago
Will Burns & Ella Frears
Poets Ella Frears and Will Burns were at the shop to read from and talk about their new collections. Ella’s Goodlord, from Rough Trade Books, takes t…
1 year, 5 months ago
Constance Debré & Alice Blackhurst: Playboy
In her latest semi-autobiographical novel Playboy (Tuskar Rock, translated by Holly James), leading French writer Constance Debré describes how a wom…
1 year, 6 months ago
Leah Cowan & Lola Olufemi: Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?
Throughout its history feminism has had a troubled relationship with policing, torn between seeking its protection and attacking its ingrained sexist…
1 year, 6 months ago
Lauren Elkin & Octavia Bright: Scaffolding
In her debut novel Scaffolding (Chatto) Lauren Elkin – ‘The Susan Sontag of her generation’, according to Deborah Levy – presents two couples occupyi…
1 year, 6 months ago
James Shapiro & Sarah Churchwell: The Playbook
The Federal Theatre Project, established as part of the New Deal in 1935 to provide employment opportunities for theatre professionals affected by th…
1 year, 6 months ago
Anne Serre & Lucie Elven: A Leopard-Skin Hat
Anne Serre’s latest novel to appear in English, brilliantly translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson, was written in the aftermath of the death …
1 year, 7 months ago
Kate Young & Nicola Dinan: Experienced
In her debut novel Experienced (4th Estate) writer and cook Kate Young delves into the world of queer dating following, reluctant Bette on an odyssey…
1 year, 7 months ago
Lucy Sante & Juliet Jacques: I Heard Her Call My Name
Born in Belgium in 1954 to conservative, Catholic parents, Lucy Sante migrated to New York in the 1960s, where she became associated with the Bohemia…
1 year, 7 months ago