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A defining new work from the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction.
Karl Ove Knausgaard is a titan of translated fiction. In his award-winning My Struggle he captured, with painful honesty, how the highs and lows of grief, envy, and love have shaped his childhood, his relationships, and the minutia of everyday life. The first book in the cycle, A Death in the Family, was named one of The Guardian’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. It continues to be heralded as a masterpiece of contemporary literature.
Traumatic experiences leave their imprint on the body as well as the mind. Now Dr van der Kolk joins us to explore his bold new paradigm for treatment.
Live in Conversation with Max Porter
We are thrilled to welcome back Ella Risbridger (The Dinner Table, Midnight Chicken and more) to talk about her latest book, The Kitchen Book.
Join the authors of 'Women Textile Designers' and founders of design studio Wallace Sewell to explore women’s contributions and experiences in textile design throughout the 20th Century and beyond.
Join us for our Horror Book Club at Waterstones Piccadilly on the first Tuesday of every month. Chat with our booksellers about the best Horror has to offer, both old and new.
What's past is now present in this November's Forgotten Fiction Book Club! A fun and fascinating evening for discussing books and authors out of print and out of vogue.
We are thrilled to announce an intimate evening with the legendary screenwriter and novelist Andrew Davies for a conversation about his new memoir, An Unsuitable Boy: A Life in Scripts.
"The economy is a fiction we wrote together, and it is in our hands to rewrite."
We're thrilled to welcome The Baillie Gifford Prize 2026 shortlisted authors to Waterstones Piccadilly.
Gertrude Stein’s Listen to Me
Catapulted to international fame by the publication of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in 1933, Gertrude Stein returned to the US for the first time in three decades to deliver a groundbreaking series of lectures on art and literature. Delivered to packed audiences up and down the country, the lectures comprise both a manifesto for her own work and a powerful and acute analysis of modernism as a whole. Listen to Me (Fitzcarraldo) brings Stein's sparklingly witty, illuminating lectures together in one volume for the first time, selected and introduced by her acclaimed biographer, Francesca Wade. Wade will be in conversation about the lectures with novelist, essayist and translator Lauren Elkin.
Join us for a cosy evening of seasonal thrills; four brilliant crime authors discuss their books, and how to commit the perfect wintry murder.
Join us for an incredible evening with bestselling author Jodi Picoult as she speaks to Callie Hart about her latest novel Hollow Bones.
Ian Pearce’s extraordinary one-man show about Slade Drummer Don Powell. With an in conversation with Don.
Harry will reflect on 40 years of arsing about in comedy and bring some of his favourite characters vividly back to life on stage.
Part stand-up, part storytelling and part conversation with himself (and with you), this new live show sees Lenny return to the experiences that shaped him.
Upset The Rhythm present a A People’s History of Music, a slideshow / lecture / film presentation which draws from archival film, sound clips and images to tell a history of global music scenes that struggled and endeavoured during periods of authoritarianism.
Speaker: Dr Gary Armstrong, Reader in Criminology at St. George’s, University of London Members: Free, Online or Victoria Hall Non-Members: £10, Online or Victoria Hall. To attend in person, please pay on the door Please book, for online link only, by 1pm on the day of the event Please join us for a drink in the Members’ Room after the lecture
Join Rory Clements to discuss his book Invitation from a Dictator.
Join our monthly bookclub where they will be discussing The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers.
Come along and share your thoughts on this month's Crime and Thriller book club choice 'Slow Horses'.
Pushkin House is delighted to welcome internationally renowned curator, art historian, and educator Maria Lind for a wide-ranging conversation on the agency, ethics, and future of cultural institutions. Throughout a distinguished professional trajectory spanning the directorship of Tensta konsthall, the 11th Gwangju Biennale, and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Lind has consistently questioned standard institutional models. Recently, her work has taken this inquiry to geographical extremes: curating near and beyond the Arctic Circle at Kin Museum of Contemporary Art in Giron/Kiruna, and working in close, sustained dialogue with Sámi and Indigenous artists, land defenders, and local historians.
