Join the highly acclaimed best selling author of Friday Nights and Second Honeymoon to talk about her new novel, The Other Family. It is a topical and heart-wrenching tale of love and loss, bonds and betrayal.
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Robert Pinsky
Wednesday 10th March 2010 – 8.00pm
To celebrate the publication of a major new anthology, the distinguished poet,critic, translator, and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Robert Pinsky, joins us to read a selection of his ground-breaking verse. The recipient of numerous accolades and honours, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters award and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, Pinsky [...]
Chris Skidmore
Tuesday 9th March 2010 – 8.00pm
There was much speculation as to whom Queen Elizabeth I would marry, and when she would produce an heir. Death and the Virgin tells her story.
Reason versus Faith – Goldstein and Pinker
Thursday 4th March 2010 – 8.00pm
What happens when a novelist and philosopher talks to a cognitive neuroscientist about faith, reason, fiction, and God? Listen in as Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker explore what Spinoza would say about Darwin, what role fiction should play in intellectual life, whether any of the arguments for the existence of God are any good, and [...]
Jim Kelly
Thursday 4th March 2010 – 7.30pm
Jim Kelly is a great friend of Topping & Company and it is always a tremendous pleasure to have him back for the launch of yet another gripping crime mystery. His last novel – the atmospheric and ingeniously plotted Death Wore White – introduced an engaging new detective team in the talented, university educated Shaw [...]
Philip Gross
Tuesday 2nd March 2010 – 8.00pm
We welcome poet, novelist and playwright Philip Gross back to Bath to hear about his powerful and reflective new collection of poems, The Water Table, recently awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry. “Great Poetry is like walking on water” says Gross, and in this humane collection he achieves this with ease.