Professor Helen Taylor Event

Why Women Read Fiction - The Stories of Our Lives Professor Helen Taylor 8pm Tuesday 19 January 2021 St Mary’s Church Road, Barnes Professor Helen Taylor says she always warms to men who read novels. ‘I love that they’re not reading to get facts…I think they’re...

Toby Faber Event

Faber and Faber - The Untold Story Toby Faber 8pm Tuesday 17 November 2020 St Mary’s Church Road, Barnes It is really no surprise that writing has become the chosen career of Toby Faber, grandson of Geoffrey Faber, founder of the well-known publisher.  His...

Tom Holland Event

Dominion Tom Holland 8pm Tuesday 20 October 2020 St Mary’s Church Road, Barnes Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster who has published best-selling books on topics including classical and medieval history and the origins of Islam....

Is the novel doomed?

Is the novel doomed? Professor John Mullan 8pm Wednesday 27 March 2019 OSO Arts Centre Barnes Green  In March 2018 Will Self declared, “the novel is absolutely doomed”. Come and listen to John Mullan, Professor of English and Lord Northcliffe Chair of Modern English...