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A.S. Byatt with Adam Thirlwell: The Children's Book
A.S. Byatt and Adam Thirlwell both talked about their work, and discussed European literature and the art of the novel.
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16 years, 7 months ago
Wolf Hall and Sacred Hearts - Hilary Mantel and Sarah Dunant
Sarah Dunant and Hilary Mantel read from Sacred Hearts and Wolf Hall, their respective latest novels, and discussed the particular challenges of writ…
16 years, 10 months ago
Translation: Making a Whole Culture Intelligible? World Literature Weekend
Four past winners of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize gathered in the Paul Hamlyn Library to discuss the difficulties of selling translated lite…
16 years, 10 months ago
Faïza Guène and Sarah Ardizzone - World Literature Weekend
Faïza Guène discussed immigration in France, her success as a writer and what the French papers made of it all, the pleasures of writing in the first…
16 years, 10 months ago
Ma Jian and Flora Drew with Boyd Tonkin - World Literature Weekend
A few days after the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Ma Jian discussed his Tiananmen novel Beijing Coma with the Independent's lit…
16 years, 10 months ago
Hanan al-Shaykh with Esther Freud - World Literature Weekend
Launching the Bookshop's inaugural World Literature Weekend, Hanan al-Shaykh gave a lively reading from her memoir of her mother, The Locust and the …
16 years, 10 months ago
Faber Firsts - Sarah Hall and Clare Wigfall
As part of Faber & Faber's 80th anniversary celebrations, the London Review Bookshop welcomed two Faber authors to read from and discuss their first …
17 years, 1 month ago
Iain Sinclair - Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
Iain Sinclair's appearance at the Bookshop always heralds a frantic scramble for seats. This event was no different, an opportunity to hear a reading…
17 years, 1 month ago
Alastair Crooke - Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution
A veteran of peace initiatives across the Middle East and beyond, Alistair Crooke provides an account of the wellspring of Islamist movements, a defe…
17 years, 2 months ago
Hanif Kureishi in conversation with John Sutherland - Something To Tell You
In conversation with John Sutherland, Hanif Kureishi expanded on and discussed his cogitation on psychoanalysis, Something to Tell You.
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17 years, 3 months ago