Events

Faber Poetry Day with Don Paterson , Daljit Nagra , William Boyd, and the Faber New Poets

2010-10-09T15:42:21Z

The publishers of TS Eliot and Ezra Pound, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy and Andrew Motion, Faber have a simply unrivalled reputation for bringing great poetry to the world. Today we delve into poetry's past with Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets, discuss the giants of contemporary verse with 2007 Forward Prize-winner Daljit Nagra, and look to the future with the glittering Faber New Poets. Explore reading and writing poetry in the inspirational company of some of the art form's finest practitioners.

All ticket-holders at Faber Poetry Day will be entered into a raffle to win a signed first edition of Simon Armitage's Seeing Stars.

11am - 11.45am: Robert Brown, Faber archivist, walks us through the decades of Faber treasures

12pm - 12.50pm: Don Paterson discusses his 101 Sonnets: From Shakespeare to Heaney with William Boyd

1pm - 2pm: Break

2pm - 2.50pm: Daljit Nagra examines the living giants Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott

3pm - 4pm: The Faber New Poets Annie Katchinska , Tom Warner and Sam Riviere take us forward.

Visit www.foyles.co.uk/events for tickets and information

Ismael Kadare

2010-10-06T15:40:22Z

In an incredibly rare London appearance, Man Booker International Prize-winner Kadare joins us in the Gallery. Often compared to Gogol, Kafka and Orwell, tonight Kadare discusses his new novel The Accident, and the rich Balkan heritage that has provided inspiration for his remarkable half-century of fiction and poetry.

6.30pm, The Gallery at Foyles

Email events@foyles.co.uk to reserve a place.

Who is the World's Most Fashionable Sociologist, Foucault, Zizek or Baudrillard?

2010-09-28T15:38:01Z

A Balloon Debate with Nikolas Rose,Chris Horrocks and Chris Kul-Want.

The world's greatest sociologists are in a sinking balloon, and only the most fashionable can be saved. Their fate is in your hands. Tonight our expert panelists battle it out to determine which sociologist has best put their finger on the nub of the human condition: Foucault the structuralist, Zizek the Cartesian or Baudrillard the postmodernist?

6.30pm, The Gallery at Foyles

Penguin Day with Colm Toibin, David Vann and more

2010-09-25T15:35:34Z

75 years ago, the first Penguin paperbacks appeared on shelves in bookstores, including works by Ernest Hemingway, Andre Maurois and Agatha Christie. Today we celebrate those years of book-making history, covering everything from that iconic Penguin jacket design, to a behind-the-scenes look at the publishing process, to the authors who continue the legacy of Penguin writing.

11am - 5pm, The Gallery at Foyles

For tickets and information visit http://www.foyles.co.uk/events

David Perrett

2010-09-23T15:34:11Z

Why do some faces make our pulses race while others leave us cold or have us running for the hills? Can beauty be measured mathematically? Find out tonight as Professor of Psychology David Perrett opens up the mysteries of the human visage.

6.30pm, The Gallery at Foyles

Email events@foyles.co.uk to reserve a place.

Small Wonder Short Story Festival

2010-09-23T14:49:07Z

Small Wonder is an opportunity to sample the best and the most innovative short fiction in a variety of forms - readings, dramatisations, musical, digital and interactive versions - from the top practitioners of the art. So whether your taste is fairy tales for the whole family, cutting edge fiction from New York, the great tradition of the Irish short story, love stories, ghost stories, or having a go yourself, there is plenty to stimulate and to enjoy.

Writers this year include Hari Kunzru, Robin Black, Joseph O'Connor, Iain Sinclair, David Vann and A. S. Byatt.

For full program, tickets and information visit www.charleston.org.uk/smallwonder

Will Self

2010-09-16T15:32:12Z

One of the most thought-provoking writers and raconteurs of his age, whatever Will Self turns his hand to becomes extraordinary. Walking to Hollywood weaves together fact, fancy, memoir and invention as Self delves deep into his own psychosis, memory loss and OCD.

6.30pm, The Gallery at Foyles

Email events@foyles.co.uk to reserve a place.

Michael Frayn

2010-09-09T15:30:16Z

Michael Frayn is arguably the greatest comic writer of his generation: who else can claim such mastery of novels, plays, philosophy and satire? Looking back over the whole of his career and beyond to the shadowy landscape of his family history, Frayn at last turns his eye to his own fascinating life. Join us for a truly special event, as one of our most cherished and celebrated writers discusses his most personal work to date.

6.30pm, The Gallery at Foyles

Email events@foyles.co.uk to reserve a place.

DBC Pierre

2010-09-07T15:27:30Z

If Booker winning enfant terrible DBC Pierre's life was written as a novel, reviewers would say it was unbelievable. Join us for this one-of-a-kind event as the misfit of modern literature reads from and talks about his new novel Lights Out in Wonderland - dark, surreal, and twisted but very, very funny.

6.30pm, The Gallery at Foyles

Email events@foyles.co.uk to reserve a place.

Tom McCarthy

2010-09-06T14:43:49Z

Tom McCarthy's first novel Remainder was originally published by a small Paris-based art press before being picked up by Vintage in the US and Alma Books in the UK and becoming both a cult bestseller and a great critical success. He now joins Cape for C, a novel about technology, sex and death that takes us from the battlefields of the Great War to the London of the 1920s and the necropolises of Ancient Egypt. Tom McCarthy will be reading from the novel, and discussing it with critic and writer Lee Rourke whose first novel The Canal has just been published by Melville House.

7pm, for tickets and information call 020 7269 9030 or visit www.lrbshop.co.uk