Join us for an evening with one of the freshest voices to emerge in recent years. Jacques Strauss has written a novel in which we view the end of apartheid in 1989 through the prism of an eleven-year-old boy. Smart, funny, touching and a little dangerous, The Dubious Salvation of Jack V. is a powerful [...]
Tag Archives: literary fiction
David Vann
Wednesday 26th January 2011 – 8.00pm
David Vann’s first novel, Legend of a Suicide, heralded the arrival of a dazzling new talent. So we are particularly pleased to have him with us to read and talk from his next novel, Caribou Island. It is a brilliantly drawn and fiercely honest account of a married couple blighted by past shadows and the [...]
Tessa Hadley
Thursday 20th January 2011 – 8.00pm
Interwoven round a single moment, The London Train, Tessa Hadley’s extraordinary new novel, is the story of two separate lives and the instant in which they overlap. Paul, married with two children, goes in search of a daughter from his previous marriage and finds his life increasingly drawn in with hers. Cora, moving back to [...]
Salley Vickers
Wednesday 24th November 2010 – 8.00pm
Aphrodite’s Hat is a brilliantly acute collection of short stories from one of our most popular authors. By turns witty, poignant and humorous, these vignettes powerfully evoke the fraught complexity of human relationships and the everyday struggles of human emotional life. This will be a wonderful occasion and a great opportunity to hear a particularly [...]
Audrey Niffenegger
Monday 18th October 2010 – 8.00pm
The Night Bookmobile is a brilliantly evocative graphic novel from the author of The Time Traveller’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. A remarkable synthesis of word and image, it achieves enormous poignancy as it describes a young woman’s obsessive search for a disappearing mobile library which stocks all the books she has ever read. This [...]
Andrew Taylor
Monday 27th September 2010 – 8.00pm
When renowned sceptic John Holdsworth is summoned to Cambridge to investigate ghost sightings, the last thing he was expecting is to be met there by his deceased wife. The Anatomy of Ghosts is both a beautifully written ghost story, and a haunting evocation of the eighteenth century. Andrew Taylor has won many awards, including two [...]
Tim Waterstone
Wednesday 22nd September 2010 – 8.00pm
In For A Penny, In For A Pound is a gripping literary thriller set in the worlds of high-finance and publishing, from boardroom to bedroom, Fleet Street to Downing Street. It’s an exhilarating ride through Britain’s corridors of power from the man who founded Waterstone’s, and changed the face of British bookselling.
Gerard Woodward
Tuesday 21st September 2010 – 8.00pm
Part of the Topping & Company Year of Picador We are delighted to welcome back award winning poet and novelist Gerard Woodward to discuss his new novel, Nourishment. Set during World War II Nourishment tells the story of Tory and her prisoner of war husband Donald. When Donald writes demanding “a dirty letter, by return [...]
Andrew Taylor
Monday 20th September 2010 – 7.30pm
When renowned sceptic John Holdsworth is summoned to Cambridge to investigate ghost sightings, the last thing he was expecting is to be met there by his deceased wife. The Anatomy of Ghosts is both a beautifully written ghost story, and a haunting evocation of the eighteenth century. Andrew Taylor has won many awards, including two [...]
Will Self
Tuesday 14th September 2010 – 8.00pm
The inimitable Will Self showcases his formidable talent in his darkly comic new novel Walking to Hollywood. A remarkable triptych that explores the very make-up of the human psyche, it is a psychedelic tour-de-force from one of the most impressive writers of his generation.