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Event: Dispersal – Picturing urban change in East London
Join Marion Davies, Juliet Davis and Debra Rapp as they discuss their new book, Dispersal: Picturing Urban Change in East London, with Hackney resident and former Guardian journalist, Dave Hill. Unparalleled in its detailed investigation into the impact of the 2012 Olympic Games on London’s East End, Dispersal paints a dramatic picture of the people and businesses displaced and affected by the development of the Olympic site, through documentary photography and investigative reportage. Though often represented as an industrial ‘wasteland’, this book reveals…
Find out more »Event: Universal Harvester with John Darnielle
We're thrilled to welcome John Darnielle to Sutton House where he'll be talking about his new novel, Universal Harvester, with Timothy J. Jarvis. Jeremy works at the counter of Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It’s the 1990s, pre-DVD, and the work is predictable and familiar; he likes his boss, and it gets him out of the house. But when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets, she has an odd complaint: ‘There’s something on it,’ she says.…
Find out more »Event: Telling Stories – Children’s Book Illustration Private View
Join us as we launch a new exhibition featuring the work of three artists from Middlesex University's MA Children's Book Illustration and Graphic Novels programme. Elena Topouzoglou has spent her time from a very young age painting and drawing. Her education at the Rhode Island School of Design and Vancouver Film School led her to build a career as a Visual Effects Compositor. Over the last 10 years, she has worked on the Oscar-winning movies Gravity and Hugo, and many other films including Beauty and the Beast, Paddington and Harry Potter.
Find out more »Event: Being a Writer: Travis Elborough & Helen Gordon in conversation
Being a Writer: Advice, Musings, Essays and Experiences From the World's Greatest Authors is an inspiring anthology of hard-won practical advice from some of the world's greatest authors musing on the art of writing and how they came to define themselves as writers. Join its editors, the authors Helen Gordon and Travis Elborough, as they discuss the particular highs and lows of the writing life from the time of Samuel Johnson and Grub Street to the age of silicon roundabout and…
Find out more »Event: The Last London: Iain Sinclair and Brian Catling in conversation
Iain Sinclair has been documenting the peculiar magic of the river-city that absorbs and obsesses him for most of his adult life. In The Last London, he strikes out on a series of solitary walks and collaborative expeditions to make a final reckoning with a capital stretched beyond recognition. Here is a mesmerising record of secret scholars and whispering ghosts. Of disturbing encounters. Night hospitals. Pits that become cameras. Mole Man labyrinths. And privileged swimming pools, up in clouds, patrolled by surveillance helicopters. Where now are the myths, the ultimate fictions of a many times revised city?
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