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White Girls: Hilton Als and Bridget Minamore
Hilton Als was at the shop to discuss his second book of essays White Girls (Penguin) with writer and journalist Bridget Minamore. In thirteen astoni…
7 years, 8 months ago
Trans-Europe Express: Owen Hatherley and Lynsey Hanley
In ‘Trans-Europe Express’, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the European city across the entire continent, to see what exactly makes it so differen…
7 years, 8 months ago
Stories from Europe's Refugee Crisis: Ziad Ghandour, Marchu Girma, Teresa Thornhill, Daniel Trilling
The refugee crisis that hit the headlines in 2015 and 2016 has largely gone out of the news. Yet refugees continue to risk their lives on a daily bas…
7 years, 8 months ago
A.K. Blakemore, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Amy Key and Zaffar Kunial
Four of poetry's liveliest new voices – A.K. Blakemore, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Amy Key and Zaffar Kunial – joined us for an evening of readings hos…
7 years, 9 months ago
The Cost of Living: Deborah Levy and Olivia Laing
Novelist, essayist and playwright Deborah Levy was at the shop to read from and talk about her latest book The Cost of Living (Hamish Hamilton), the …
7 years, 9 months ago
An Evening with James Wood
Over six winter days in upstate New York the Querry family, its members variously afflicted by painful divorce, bereavement and depression, wrestle w…
7 years, 9 months ago
Sophie Mackintosh and Katherine Angel: The Water Cure
Sophie Mackintosh’s powerful dystopian debut novel The Water Cure (Hamish Hamilton) comes with some dazzling endorsements. ‘Eerie, electric, beautifu…
7 years, 9 months ago
Crudo: Olivia Laing and Ali Smith
From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her 40s trying to adjust to making a lifelong commi…
7 years, 10 months ago
Édouard Louis and Didier Eribon
Sociologist Didier Eribon and novelist Édouard Louis were both born into conservative working-class families in provincial France. Oppressed both int…
7 years, 10 months ago
Life, Literature and Liberation: Lara Feigel and Joanna Walsh with Jennifer Hodgson
Joanna Walsh’s latest book Break.up (Tuskar Rock), a feminist revisionist travelogue, and romance for the digital age, explores the spaces between lo…
7 years, 10 months ago