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Mick Herron and Miranda Carter: Joe Country
Mick Herron’s hero/anti-hero Jackson Lamb is everything Le Carré’s Smiley isn’t, as well as quite a lot of what he is. Drunk, obese, bone-idle and ri…
6 years ago
Plastic Emotions: Shiromi Pinto, Owen Hatherley and Olivia Sudjic
‘We architects must be idealists’, wrote Minnette de Silva, Sri Lanka’s first female architect. Shiromi Pinto’s second novel, Plastic Emotions (Influ…
6 years, 1 month ago
Sam Contis and Joanna Biggs: Dorothea Lange’s Day Sleeper
Sam Contis discusses ‘Dorothea Lange’s Day Sleeper’, the way women photographers are remembered and forgotten and how one artist encounters another i…
6 years, 1 month ago
Lars Iyer and Jon Day: Nietzsche and the Burbs
Lars Iyer, author of the Spurious trilogy and Wittgenstein Jr. revisits philosophy in his latest novel Nietzsche and the Burbs (Melville House). Set …
6 years, 1 month ago
Jean Sprackland and Chris McCabe: These Silent Mansions
In her previous book Strands poet and essayist Jean Sprackland brought lyrically to life the hidden histories of objects found on her local beaches. …
6 years, 1 month ago
Anne Enright and Andrew O’Hagan: Actress
Anne Enright’s latest novel Actress (Cape) tells the story of the relationship between Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell and her daughter Norah, …
6 years, 2 months ago
Leïla Slimani & Amia Srinivasan: Sex and Lies
Leïla Slimani was the first Moroccan woman to win France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt for her novel Lullaby. Her latest book Sex and Lies (Faber) depa…
6 years, 2 months ago
Julia Ebner and Daniel Trilling: Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside, but two years ago, she began to feel that sh…
6 years, 2 months ago
Beethoven: The Poets’ Take: Anthony Anaxagorou, Raymond Antrobus & Ruth Padel
Like Beethoven, the poet Ruth Padel first came to love and understand music through playing the viola. Her great grandfather, a concert pianist, stud…
6 years, 2 months ago
Will Harris & Rachael Allen: RENDANG
Will Harris reads from his debut collection RENDANG, alongside poet and editor Rachael Allen.
Find out about upcoming events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/b…
6 years, 3 months ago