City Read Panel on Saturday

CITY READ 2016 
In the run up to this years City Read events I will be on stage with the following literary luminaries...

Sebastian Faulks, Gillian Slovo, Claire Tomalin, Louisa Young 

To discuss the joys of setting your work in the greatest city in the world.


WHERE? THE BRITISH LIBRARY
WHEN?SATURDAY 7TH MAY3:30 PM
Chaired by Kamila Shamsie

Cityread London unites the capital every April by inviting the whole city to pick up the same book set in London and read it together. Cityread events erupt across Greater London in libraries and bookshops, cinemas and stations. This special event, chaired by the novelist Kamila Shamsie, celebrates Cityread’s first five years. It brings together all four living writers whose books have been Cityread’s choices to date. They discuss the joys and challenges of evoking our capital city – Sebastian Faulks with A Week in December, Louisa Young with My Dear, I wanted to tell you, Ben Aaronovitch with Rivers of London, and Gillian Slovo with this year’s Cityread, Ten Days. The first Cityread book, in 2012, was Oliver Twist, and for this the biographer Claire Tomalin speaks about Dickens’s London.