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We’re delighted to announce that Robert Montagu has teamed up with Nested Events and will be speaking about his experiences and A Humour of Love at St Cuthbert’s Church, Earls Court on 21st October. It’s going to be an eye-opening discussion and a brilliant evening. Not one to miss! Tickets are £10 and include a
‘If 2015 is to be a year defined by refugees and terrorism, Sunny Singh’s remarkable novel Hotel Arcadia should play a part. Although brief and nominally a thriller, Singh’s third novel is equally a deep meditation on empathy and engagement’
Performative Utterance reviews Hotel Arcadia by Sunny Singh. Read the full review here now and
‘If you ask anyone to name some of the great photographers during the 1960’s and 70’s and the names of Patrick Litchfield and David Bailey would be mentioned but also would be mentioned would be Jim Lee, one of the true greats of fashion photography during this time. Quartet Books have just released the autobiography
‘Hailed as Britain’s answer to Guy Bourdin, Lee provocatively applied a radical chic to the era’s most celebrated fashions – the Ossie Clark dresses, the Jaeger bags, the Biba girls – by thrusting them into unsettling, political landscapes filled with war and terror: models clutched machine guns instead of handbags, were cradled in soldiers’ arms
Lucy Beresford was in Edinburgh for the festival and invited to sign books at Looking Glass Books.
Here’s Lucy signing copies of Invisible Threads.
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‘For the past year I have only read books about drink. I have just handed in the first draft of my book so I am now reading something purely for pleasure. I have chosen a novel by Allan Massie called Cold Winter in Bordeaux; it’s part of a quartet set in occupied France. It’s
Martin Scurr and Jane Haynes will be speaking at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Monday 5th October. Read more about the event and get your tickets here today.
Doctors Dissected by Martin Scurr and Jane Haynes is available today. Get your copy here now!
‘The enjoyment of an autobiography generally depends on how interesting the author is able to make himself. In this instance Attallah’s self-confessed naivety, disgustingness, warmth, sensuality, exceptional energy, bossiness and diversity of enthusiasm certainly make him as colourful as anyone in Dickens or Powell, but the long-term value of Fulfilment and Betrayal will, I suspect,