Shakespeare and Company

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. In association with Albin Michel. We were joined by Colson Whitehead, to discuss his “brutal, vital, devastating novel” (Observer) The Underground Railroad.

We were thrilled to be joined Valeria Luiselli to discuss her powerful and timely new book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions.

A young would-be writer travels to a frozen island in the Falklands, with only penguins for company, to craft her debut novel . . . That writer was Nell Stevens, who joined us to talk about Bleaker House . . . not the novel she hoped to write, but the honest and hilarious story of how she failed to write it.

We’re delighted to welcome one of the most compelling young writers at work today Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, to discuss her début novel Harmless Like You.

We were delighted to be joined by the brilliant Lionel Shriver to discuss The Mandibles, her timely new novel about American decline. In association with Editions Belfond.

In association with the American University of Paris, we were very pleased to be joined by one of Bulgaria”s best-known writers, Georgi Gospodinov.

We were joined by novelist and poet, former Children's Laureate and the author of 140 books Michael Rosen for a discussion of his fascinating new work The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case.

We were joined by Sigrid Rausing and Francis Geffard to celebrate and discuss Granta Magazine’s Best of Young American Novelists 3.

We were joined by Mark O’Connell, a stunning new non-fiction voice to discuss the urgent question…what next for mankind?

On the occasion of its return to print with Notting Hill Editions, we revisited a classic work about our city, Nairn’s Paris, in the company of author and academic Andrew Hussey, who penned a new introduction to the work.

We were thrilled to be joined by musician and writer Mathias Malzieu to discuss his profound and moving memoir Diary of a Vampire in Pyjamas.

Do space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture? We were joined by theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli for a mind-bending discussion of his major new work, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity.

We were joined by one of the most celebrated and controversial writers at work today, Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of the epoch-defining My Struggle and the newly published Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game.

We were joined by writer, poet and essayist Kapka Kassabova to discuss her timely and fascinating new work Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe.

We were joined by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, George Saunders to discuss his astonishing first novel Lincoln in the Bardo, as well as performing arts company Word for Word who treated us to a dramatic reading from the book. Word for Word Performing Arts Company is an ensemble whose mission is to tell great stories with elegant theatricality, staging performances of classic and contemporary fiction. Co-artistic directors Susan Harloe and JoAnne Winter founded Word for Word in 1993. http://www.zspace.org/aboutwordforword/ Lincoln—Velina Brown Willy Lincoln—Jia Taylor Hans Vollman—Joel Mullinnex Bevins—Sheila Balter Other Voices—Kehinde Koyejo and Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe directed by Jim Cave