Join authors Michael Robb and Evan Friss as the discuss the bookshops and publishers of the UK and United States of America Michael Robb (UK) and Evan Friss (USA) will join up to discuss what the world of books looks like both here and abroad Shelf Life This engaging narrative unveils the resilience and innovation […]
Writer, traveller, veterinarian, taxidermist, barrister and philosopher Charles Foster joins us talk about his latest book. The Edges of the World We tend to think that everything important comes from the centre: from big cities, from established orthodoxies in the sciences and the arts, from the Establishment in all its forms. We think this because the […]
German historian Helene von Bismarck offers an affectionate and insightful portrait of the United Kingdom as seen by an outsider. Fantastic Kingdom Global yet insular, tolerant yet suspicious, proudly pragmatic yet profoundly sentimental. The United Kingdom inspires fierce loyalty and endless argument. Ten years after Brexit, it is as divided as ever. After twenty years […]
Amanda Golden, Editor of this new edition of Sylvia Plath's poems will discuss the book with Poet Erica McAlpine. The Poems of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath's first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This new volume draws on decades of research and almost doubles the content of that previous edition. The book is in two parts. It […]
Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. Nightshade Mother In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing […]
