‘The Wall is something new: almost an allegory, almost a dystopian-future warning, partly an elegant study of the nature of storytelling itself.’ Philip Pullman
Join John Lanchester, one of the UK’s most eloquent contemporary writers and foremost interpreters of the way we live now, in conversation with the Executive Director of Greenpeace UK, John Sauven. They will be talking about John's new novel,The Wall, which envisages an England thirty years hence, and discussing the novel’s treatment of vital environmental and political issues.
‘The Wall is something new: almost an allegory, almost a dystopian-future warning, partly an elegant study of the nature of storytelling itself.’ Philip Pullman
Join John Lanchester, one of the UK’s most eloquent contemporary writers and foremost interpreters of the way we live now, in conversation with the Executive Director of Greenpeace UK, John Sauven. They will be talking about John's new novel,The Wall, which envisages an England thirty years hence, and discussing the novel’s treatment of vital environmental and political issues.