Award-winning authors Ian McEwan and Zadie Smith join John Mullan to discuss their latest novels
Ian McEwan: Sweet Tooth
Date: Thursday 4 July
Time: 7pm
Venue: Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
Price: £11.50/£9.50
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Sweet Tooth is set in the early 1970s, during the turbulent years of soaring oil prices, economic disaster and the escalating threat of IRA terrorism. Serena Frome, a bishop's daughter and an avid reader of novels, finds herself recruited to MI5 following a brief affair with a Cambridge academic. She is sent on a secret Cold War propaganda mission to seduce a promising young writer into unknowingly serving his government. But when they embark on an affair, the lines between reality and fiction become increasingly blurred.. Sweet Tooth takes the familiar tropes of the Cold War thriller – secrecy, betrayal, deception – to examine the nature of writing and the relationship between author and reader.
Zadie Smith: NW
Date: Wednesday 17 July
Time: 7pm
Venue: Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
Price: £11.50/£9.50
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In NW, Smith revisits the northwestern corner of London which inspired her acclaimed debut White Teeth. From Willesden and Kilburn, to upmarket Queen's Park and into Soho, the narrative follows the different paths of its four protagonists - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – as they try to make adult lives outside the housing estate of their childhood. The novel's experiments with form and narrative mirror the complexities of modern life in a divided city.
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