Recommended: Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
Jenny Hval's debut novel is every bit as striking and sensuous as her music, a synaesthetic dreamworld of bodies, fruit, plants, and decay delivered in close, breathy prose. First published in Norwegian in 2009, Paradise Rot is finally finding an international ...
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Event: Radical Essex with Gillian Darley and Ken Worpole
An often maligned county, Essex’s recent history has been the subject of many stereotypes. A new book, Radical Essex, seeks to tell another story, exploring the dynamic relationship between London’s East End and radical experiments in living, whether in rural ...
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Event: Exhibition Opening – Outsider: Photography by Hannah White
Amidst the chaos of Brexit, Hannah White wanted to explore a different side of Europe, one informed by the views and experiences of those who live there. She carried out her research by bike. Cycling from Roscoff to Geneva, Rome ...
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Author of the Month: Miriam Toews
To celebrate the publication of Miriam Toews's new novel, Women Talking, we're making her our author of the month for October. An "imagined response" to the very real abuse suffered by the women of Mennonite communities in Bolivia, Women Talking speaks ...
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Event: Insomnia: Marina Benjamin in conversation with Colin Grant
With her new memoir Insomnia, Marina Benjamin has produced an unsettling account of an unsettling condition that treats our inability to sleep not as a disorder, but as an existential experience that can electrify our understanding of ourselves, and of creativity ...
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Event: Double Launch: Geraldine Snell & Sian Robinson Davies
Join us for a double launch of Geraldine Snell's overlove and Siân Robinson Davies' Naked and Practical ...
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