Shakespeare and Company

We were joined by Jenny Zhang, the author of one of the most lauded débuts of the last year, the “gorgeous and grotesque” (Slate), Sour Heart.

We were joined by writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit.

We were joined by the bestselling, twice Orange Prize-shortlisted, National Book Award-nominated, Nicole Krass, to discuss her vibrant tale of transformation and self-discovery, Forest Dark.

We were joined by award-winning writer Caryl Phillips to discuss A View of the Empire at Sunset, his beautiful, heartbreaking novel about the life of Jean Rhys, author of Wide Sargasso Sea.

The brilliant Marcel Theroux returned to Shakespeare and Company to discuss his new novel The Secret Books.

We were joined by world-renowned theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli to discuss his mind-bending new work, The Order of Time.

We were joined by former S&Co Tumbleweed Molly Crabapple and, by video link-up, journalist Marwan Hisham to discuss their collaboration on the vital new work Brothers Of The Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War.

We were joined by two of the most formidable voices from Britain’s spoken word scene, Salena Godden and Scarlett Sabet.

We were joined by Heidi Sopinka for a reading from The Dictionary of Animal Languages, a thrillingly elegant yet raw evocation of a woman clawing her way to a creative life, inspired by the life of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.

We celebrated the first year of Desperate Literature's literary prize and the launch of Eleven Stories, the collected prize shortlist, with readings from winner Ed Cottrell, runner-up Gordon Collins and shortlisted writers Jay G Ying and Georgia Hazelgrove along with the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize team.

Editor of the groundbreaking collection The Good Immigrant--a collection of writing by twenty British Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic writers and artists reflecting on race, immigration and being ‘other’ in Great Britain, which was called “an important, timely read." by J. K. Rowling and “funny and moving” by Zadie Smith--this evening Nikesh Shukla will be reading from and discussing his new novel The One Who Wrote Destiny, a big-hearted, utterly charming story about three generations of the same family, riven by feuds and falling-outs, united by fates and fortunes.

We were joined by Joanna Walsh to discuss her boundary-pushing new work Break.up.

We were joined by Amy Sackville to discuss her long-awaited third novel Painter to the King, a stunning fictional portrait of Diego Velázquez.

We were joined by the 2017 National Book Award winner, Jesmyn Ward, for a reading from the powerful yet intimate, dark yet hopeful, Sing, Unburied, Sing.

We celebrated the publication of Le corps des hommes, a bilingual edition of Andrew McMillan’s multi-award-winning début collection, physical, translated into French by acclaimed writer Philippe Besson. In association with Editions Grasset.