Out of a mixture of gratitude and admiration, we turn our shop, twice a week or so, into a miniature auditorium in which authors talk about and read from their work, meet their readers, and engage in lively debate about the burning topics of the day. Find out here who’s scheduled to appear.
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Audio and Video
Missed one of our sold-out events, or longing to revisit an evening you enjoyed? This site includes a healthy selection of audio, video and pictures from previous events in the Bookshop. Browse through our calendar, or scroll down for a full listing. You can also subscribe to our events podcast via iTunes or RSS.
In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In his new book, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight (Penguin) Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new world of Big ...
Richard Powers, one of America’s greatest novelists, often compared to Pynchon and Roth, will be at the shop to read from and talk about his twelfth novel The Overstory (Heinemann). Powers has always been remarkable for the seriousness with ...
In Democracy Hacked, Martin Moore examines how our own fragile political systems are being gamed by authoritarian states, shadowy hackers and unaccountable social media firms. Is our democracy more vulnerable than we realise? Can these sinister ...
Join us for our monthly Late Shopping Evening. Reserve your place and enjoy a 10% discount on all books, recommendations from our expert booksellers and a glass of wine to sip whilst you browse the shelves.
Alia Trabucco Zerán is one of Latin America's rising literary stars. Her debut novel, The Remainder (And Other Stories), is a drama of collective memory and responsibility, exploring how the trauma of a society under dictatorship affects the ...
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE - THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE ON 15 OCTOBER
What is it about the particularities of painting that has allowed artists to explore, in a variety of ways and with a sometimes surprising degree of freedom, the vexed ...
‘Like Björk and FKA Twigs, Norwegian artist Jenny Hval presents a
version of female sexuality in which carnal impulses, anxieties and
the female/male perspective are often knotted together.’ The Guardian
In his latest book Conversations About Sculpture (Yale) art historian Hal Foster recapitulates the discussions he has had, over a period of two decades, with the legendary minimalist sculptor Richard Serra. Professor Foster, a regular ...
Alasdair Gray is one of the giants of Scottish Arts who has gained a reputation as a great writer, artist, notorious drunkard, irrascible interviewee and controversial essayist. In Kevin Cameron's intimate portrait, filmed over the course of 15 ...
Man Booker International-shortlisted novelist Mathias Enard, 'the most brazenly lapel-grabbing French author since Michel Houellebecq', returns with Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants (tr. Charlotte Mandell), his fourth novel to appear in ...
Join us for our monthly Late Shopping Evening. Reserve your place and enjoy a 10% discount on all books, recommendations from our expert booksellers and a glass of wine to sip whilst you browse the shelves.
Marking 10 years since the release of this highly acclaimed documentary essay about life in a small Welsh community, film-maker Gideon Koppel will be in conversation with Gareth Evans after the screening.
There's nothing quite like the experience of meeting the author of a favourite book. But if you weren't able to make it to one of our readings, don't despair! Explore the sights and sounds of events you may have missed – or want to
revisit – below.
Out of My Head tells the highly personal and often surprisingly funny story of Tim Parks' quest to discover more about consciousness. It seems not a day goes by without a discussion on whether computers can be conscious, whether our universe is ...
From a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralysed UK, Kathy spends the first summer of her 40s trying to adjust to making a lifelong commitment just as Trump is tweeting the world into nuclear war. But it’s not only Kathy who’s ...
Sociologist Didier Eribon and novelist Édouard Louis were both born into conservative working-class families in provincial France. Oppressed both intellectually and sexually by racism and homophobia, they each escaped to academic life at the ...
In Trans-Europe Express, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the European city across the entire continent, to see what exactly makes it so different to the Anglo-Saxon norm - the unplanned, car-centred, developer-oriented spaces common to the ...
Sophie Mackintosh’s powerful dystopian debut novel The Water Cure (Hamish Hamilton) comes with some dazzling endorsements. ‘Eerie, electric, beautiful’, Daisy Johnson writes, ‘It rushes you through to the end on a tide of tension and ...
Joanna Walsh’s latest book Break.up (Tuskar Rock), a feminist revisionist travelogue, and romance for the digital age, explores the spaces between lovers, between thinking and doing, between fiction and memoir, as well as ‘the sheer ...
Professor Terry Eagleton’s more than 40 books have explored, in consistently invigorating ways, the many and surprising intersections and confluences of literature, culture, ideology and belief. His latest book Radical Sacrifice (Yale) draws ...
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In 1990, Eileen Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly became central to the writer's life and work. During the course of their sixteen ...
Iranian-American poet Kaveh Akbar’s debut collection Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Penguin) has been attracting ecstatic reviews and endorsements. The poet Fanny Howe writes ‘The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics ...
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