Events
Meet Faber authors at exclusive Faber Members evenings, literary festivals and all sorts of other literary events in London and beyond.
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The War Against Reality: Peter Pomerantsev at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival
Peter Pomerantsev will be taking part in HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s largest philosophy and music festival, from 21st – 22nd September in London....
HowTheLightGetsIn Festival: Lies, Damned Lies and Post Truth with Joanna Kavenna and Peter Pomerantsev
It seemed that we had all got used to the idea that rather than a single definitive truth there are a multiplicity of competing and alternative perspectives. Now with the rise of ‘fake news’ and publicising of blatant lies, we want to reassert the importance of accuracy and truth. Can...
HowTheLightGetsIn Festival: The Tyranny of the New with Joanna Kavenna
From the aristocrats who awaited Mozart’s latest compositions to the pop charts of today, from our desire for the latest fashion to our focus on the latest film or book, the new has driven music and culture for hundreds of years. But that was in an era where access to art was limited. Now...
HowTheLightGetsIn Festival: The World That Disappeared with Joanna Kavenna
No-one who has ever stepped on a Lego brick could doubt the reality of physical objects. Yet from Heraclitus to George Berkeley, many philosophers claimed to have disproven the existence of things. And now high-energy particle physicists are inclined to agree, redescribing material stuff as...
New Nostalgias: Dana Czapnik and Lucy Caldwell
Dana Czapnik’s debut novel, The Falconer, punches with a ruling energy all of its own – a new voice that happily dances grand theories with street smarts; sculpts delicate emotions with arching prose, and delivers LOVE, BASKETBALL, ART, MUSIC, FRIENDSHIP, FEMINISM, DREAMS…...
Jay Rayner My Last Supper Nottingham Glee Club
It’s your last meal on earth. What are you going to have? It’s the question award-winning restaurant critic and MasterChef judge Jay Rayner has been asked most often by audiences across the UK. Finally, he’s set out to answer it. In this barnstorming new show, Rayner examines our...
Platform Seven by Louise Doughty at Culture Bite Festival, Hillingdon
From the bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard comes a gripping, brilliant, original and eerily-timely novel. Join author Louise Doughty and Hillingdon Library service as they discuss her new novel....
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation with Amelia Gentleman
With Amelia Gentleman, Colin Grant and Sue Brown....
Jay Rayner My Last Supper Birmingham Glee Club
It’s your last meal on earth. What are you going to have? It’s the question award-winning restaurant critic and MasterChef judge Jay Rayner has been asked most often by audiences across the UK. Finally, he’s set out to answer it. In this barnstorming new show, Rayner examines our...
Jay Rayner My Last Supper The Apex, Bury St. Edmunds
Imagine you are about to die. You have one meal left. What are you going to have?...
Jay Rayner My Last Supper HOME Manchester
Imagine you are about to die. You have one meal left. What are you going to have?...
