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Andrew Mellor and James Jolly: ‘The Northern Silence’
At one time something of a backwater in the musical world, over the past few decades Scandinavia has become a musical powerhouse, encompassing all ge…
3 years, 8 months ago
Anna Aslanyan & Daniel Trilling on translation in reportage
Two journalists with a multilingual background – Anna Aslanyan, the author of Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History, and Daniel Tr…
3 years, 9 months ago
Elif Batuman & Merve Emre: Either/Or
Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed and The Idiot, joined us to read from and talk about her latest novel Either/Or. International travel, Harvard,…
3 years, 9 months ago
Margo Jefferson & Colin Grant: Constructing a Nervous System
Margo Jefferson talks to Colin Grant about her latest book, Constructing a Nervous System. It’s a memoir unlike any other, taking as its focus each ‘…
3 years, 9 months ago
Kate Folk and Sharon Horgan: ‘Out There’
Kate Folk's debut collection of short stories, Out There, combines science fiction, horror and psychological realism to explore the Kafkaesque precar…
3 years, 9 months ago
Lauren Elkin, Deborah Levy and Alice McCrum: The Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir
Written in 1954 but unpublished until after her death, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Inseparables is an intimate portrait, based on life, of female friend…
3 years, 9 months ago
Kaveh Akbar and Seán Hewitt: Pilgrim Bell
Back in March 2018 Iranian-born Kaveh Akbar launched his debut collection Calling a Wolf a Wolf with us at the bookshop. He joined us again in digita…
3 years, 10 months ago
Julian Barnes and Chris Power: Elizabeth Finch
Julian Barnes’s latest novel Elizabeth Finch, his first since The Only Story in 2018, is very much a novel of ideas. As a student sorts through the n…
3 years, 10 months ago
Nick Blackburn & Helen Macdonald: The Reactor
From debut author Nick Blackburn, a therapist specialising in LGBTQ+ issues, comes The Reactor, a powerful new addition to the literature of grief an…
3 years, 10 months ago
Niven Govinden & Gareth Evans: Diary of a Film
Niven Govinden’s sixth novel Diary of a Film (Dialogue) follows an unnamed director through the streets of an Italian town as he muses on cinema, que…
3 years, 10 months ago