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We were joined by author and critic Andy Miller (The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life) for an introduction to Read Y’Self Fitter, a ten-step programme to cure oneself of bad reading habits.

As the monumental project to collect The Letters of Samuel Beckett came to a close, we were delighted to be joined by two of the collection’s editors George Craig and Dan Gunn to read from and discuss the fourth and final volume.

We were thrilled to be joined by New-Yorker staff writer Lauren Collins to talk about When in French: Love in a Second Language, a book that The Guardian said “brims with intelligence, humour and curiosity”.

We were delighted to be joined by Anne Sebba at Shakespeare and Company for a discussion about her book Les Parisiennes - How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s.

Edwin Frank, editor of New York Review Books, and Daniel Medin, professor at the American University in Paris and co-editor of Music & Literature and the Cahiers Series, joined us to discuss the program and history of New York Review Books.

Join us as we welcome six poets from New River Press, one of the UK’s edgiest and most exciting poetry imprints.

Tonight, the author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank returns with his new book Finding Fontainebleau - An American Boy in France.

This Hallowe'en join us as we welcome the legendary writer and director of Withnail and I, Bruce Robinson, to discuss They All Love Jack, the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of history’s most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act.

Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to Shakespeare and Company.

Join us for an evening with Philippe Sands, discussing his powerful and vital new work East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity.

We’re thrilled to welcome Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney to read from her New York Times bestselling début, The Nest.

Join us for a freewheeling discussion of the 2016 elections with Lex Paulson, a veteran of the 2008 Obama campaign and U.S. Congress, currently professor of rhetoric at Sciences Po-Paris. In addition to talking through the polls and strategies of the two major candidates, we'll take some much-needed wisdom from Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn to understand America in 2016. Open to all nationalities and political persuasions.

Join us for an evening with two scintillating young poets, Scarlett Sabet, launching her new collection The Lock and the Key, and Nathan Loceff, launching his first book of poetry and flash-fiction Joys of the Capital.

We’re delighted to welcome the 2003 Booker-Prize winner, DBC Pierre to discuss his provocative new work on the fiction-writing process, Release the Bats.