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Can't and Won't: An Evening with Lydia Davis
‘It's a bit mysterious, but somehow the emotion I feel at the heart of whatever I'm writing comes through, usually by my not insisting on it.’ Lydia …
11 years, 8 months ago
H is for Hawk: Helen Macdonald and Tim Dee
Helen Macdonald and Tim Dee came to the Bookshop to talk about birds, and about writing about birds. Radio producer Tim Dee propelled himself into th…
11 years, 9 months ago
The Darkest Days: Douglas Newton and Christopher Clark
As the world commemorates the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War historian Douglas Newton recounts the hidden history of Britain’s decision t…
11 years, 9 months ago
The Ranters: Nigel Smith in conversation with Stephen Sedley
Nigel Smith, currently Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature at Princeton, was in conversation about the thought, literature and legacy of the R…
11 years, 9 months ago
Correspondences: Anne Michaels and Gareth Evans
Best known in Britain for her award-winning novel Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels is also an acclaimed poet. Her latest collection, Correspondences, s…
11 years, 9 months ago
Another Great Day at Sea: Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer’s latest book Another Great Day at Sea (Visual Editions), illustrated with the photographs of Chris Steele-Perkins, recounts daily life ab…
11 years, 10 months ago
The Empathy Exams: Leslie Jamison and Olivia Laing
Leslie Jamison’s essays deal with illness, art, running, loss, the female body and everything else besides. She joined us at the shop to discuss her …
11 years, 10 months ago
‘Mapping It Out’: Hans Ulrich Obrist and Tom McCarthy
'The first thing you find out in any textbook about maps is that they don't work. There's no such thing as a good map.'What is a map? And what is a m…
11 years, 10 months ago
Chris Marker: Writing the Image - with Chris Darke and Brian Dillon
Film-maker, graphic designer, animator, cartoonist, photographer, internet and new media pioneer, installationist, novelist, critic, publisher – the …
11 years, 10 months ago
The Perfect Theory: Pedro G Ferreira and Marcus du Sautoy
Almost a century after Einstein first proposed it, the full ramifications of the General Theory of Relativity are still being debated. Pedro Ferreira…
11 years, 11 months ago