Fiction
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White Room, Spirit Level
Southbank Centre Book Club
Thursday 2 April 2009
Thursday 2 April 2009
Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Southbank Centre Book Club
13018
'We do not usually associate wisdom with beginners, but here is a new writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers.
Level 5 Function Room
Geoff Dyer
Monday 6 April 2009
Monday 6 April 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature April – June 09
12993
Geoff Dyer returns to fiction for the first time in 11 years, exploring ideas around travel, love and work in his novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi.
St. Paul’s Pavilion
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tuesday 7 April 2009
Tuesday 7 April 2009
Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Southbank Centre Book Club
13019
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie answers questions on her short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck.
Spirit Level
Southbank Centre Book
Tuesday 5 May 2009
Tuesday 5 May 2009
Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Southbank Centre Book Club
13187
This May, Southbank Centre's Book Club is reading The Soccer War (Granta Books, 2007) by Ryszard Kapuscinski.
Purcell Room
A S Byatt
Monday 11 May 2009
Monday 11 May 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature April – June 09
13113
AS Byatt returns to Southbank Centre to discuss her new novel The Children’s Book, a gripping, panoramic novel set in the late Victorian and Edwardian world.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Kazuo Ishiguro
Wednesday 13 May 2009
Wednesday 13 May 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature April – June 09
13115
Booker Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his latest work, Nocturnes, a wonderful story cycle exploring themes of love, music and the passing of time.
Purcell Room
Anne Michaels - 8pm
Monday 1 June 2009
Monday 1 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature April – June 09 | Orange Prize for Fiction
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Anne Michaels’ The Winter Vault is the long-awaited follow up to Fugitive Pieces, her outstanding debut which won the Orange Prize in 1997.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Orange Prize Readings
Tuesday 2 June 2009
Tuesday 2 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | Literature April – June 09 | Orange Prize for Fiction
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Level 5 Function Room
Sarah Dunant
Thursday 2 July 2009
Thursday 2 July 2009
Advanced Booking | Early Music | Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks & Debate
13370
Join us for the launch event of Sacred Hearts, the third of Sarah Dunant's acclaimed renaissance novels.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Arundhati Roy
Thursday 2 July 2009
Thursday 2 July 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks & Debate
13369
Arundhati Roy headlines the London Literature Festival, in this major event addressing the subject of democracy.
Purcell Room
Jake Arnott
Friday 3 July 2009
Friday 3 July 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Gay | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks & Debate | House of Homosexual Culture
13373
Since his debut, the cult classic The Long Firm, Jake Arnott's novels have put queer characters right at the heart of bestselling fiction, and his work has been adapted for television with spectacular success.
Weston Pavilion
Southbank Centre Book Club - L
Saturday 4 July 2009
Saturday 4 July 2009
Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks & Debate | Southbank Centre Book Club
13419
Hosted by Rachel Holmes, Southbank Centre Book Club meets to discuss Laura Dockrill's groundbreaking Ugly Shy Girl, a twisted tale about the struggle of growing up in a place where you don't belong, surrounded by people you hate - and how delicious getting your own back can be.
St. Paul’s Pavilion
Southbank Centre Book Club: Sa
Sunday 5 July 2009
Sunday 5 July 2009
Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks & Debate | Southbank Centre Book Club
13471
'Waters is a very generous writer, who seems to want to give and tell us everything, so much does she love the fictional worlds she creates.
Purcell Room
2009 Caine Prize Readings
Sunday 5 July 2009
Sunday 5 July 2009
Advanced Booking | Africa | Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks
13386
The Caine Prize celebrates the best new fiction from Africa, and this year marks the tenth anniversary of the prize.
Blue Room, Spirit Level
Helon Habila and Cameron Duodo
Monday 6 July 2009
Monday 6 July 2009
Advanced Booking | Africa | Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks & Debate
13389
Helon Habila reads from his work and from writers who have inspired him while responding to questions from the audience.
Purcell Room
Sarah Waters
Monday 6 July 2009
Monday 6 July 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks & Debate
13388
Sarah Waters returns to Southbank Centre to discuss her new novel The Little Stranger, a chilling ghost story.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Wuthering Heights : From Page
Thursday 9 July 2009
Thursday 9 July 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks & Debate
13380
Having given us bold retellings of Shakespeare and Chaucer, BAFTA-winning screenwriter Peter Bowker (Blackpool, Flesh & Blood) now presents one of the most passionate and haunting novels in English Literature, Wuthering Heights.
Purcell Room
John Freeman, Petina Gappah,
Thursday 9 July 2009
Thursday 9 July 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks & Debate
13391
The new Granta editor John Freeman joins novelists Petina Gappah, AL Kennedy and Adam Thirlwell to discuss writing in the digital age and the future of literary magazines in a world moving on from the printed word.
Level 5 Function Room
Marina Lewycka
Saturday 11 July 2009
Saturday 11 July 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks & Debate
13412
Marina Lewycka and Quaisra Sharaz read from their latest work, exploring contemporary urban life and the personal histories of immigration and place that make up human character.
Weston Pavilion
Southbank Centre Book Club: Ar
Saturday 11 July 2009
Saturday 11 July 2009
Fiction | India | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks & Debate | Southbank Centre Book Club
13420
Southbank Centre Book Club reads Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, winner of the 2008 Booker Prize.