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Jarvis Cocker
To mark the publication of the paperback edition of Mother, Brother, Lover, Jarvis Cocker joined us at the shop for a conversation with the novelist …
13 years, 6 months ago
Anthea Bell in conversation with Daniel Hahn
Our International Translation Day event celebrated the distinguished career of Anthea Bell, who was in conversation with Daniel Hahn of the British C…
13 years, 7 months ago
Will Self: On the Digital Essay
Will Self leads a panel discussion about questions thrown up by new technology, with special reference to ‘Kafka's Wound’, the digital literary essay…
13 years, 8 months ago
Teju Cole and Max Liu: Open City
Teju Cole came to the Bookshop to discuss his first novel, Open City. The book, which follows a young Nigerian-German psychiatrist in New York City f…
13 years, 8 months ago
To the River, To the Sea: Olivia Laing and Jean Sprackland
'To the River' is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia …
13 years, 10 months ago
Robert Macfarlane: The Old Ways
Robert Macfarlane, perhaps the most accomplished exponent of the ‘New Nature Writing’, was at the Bookshop to describe his journeys, and to discuss w…
13 years, 10 months ago
Women Writing Women: Helen Simpson and Michèle Roberts
Two of Britain’s most eminent female writers discussed literature, fiction, women, the short story and much else besides.
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13 years, 11 months ago
Crime Fiction: Reading Scars - Karin Alvtegen and Håkan Nesser - World Literature Wee
Award-winning Swedish crime writers Karin Alvtegen and Håkan Nesser, chaired by Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, lecturer in Scandinavian Literature at UCL, …
14 years, 10 months ago
Daniel Kehlmann and Benjamin Markovits - World Literature Weekend 2011
Novelists Daniel Kehlmann and Benjamin Markovits share interests in their work in biography, genius and failure, charisma and the question of how to …
14 years, 10 months ago
Live Translation - World Literature Weekend 2011
Two translators – Shaun Whiteside and Mike Mitchell – went head to head with their versions of a previously untranslated work. Novelist Daniel Kehlma…
14 years, 10 months ago