Bharat Tandon- The Literary Salon - September 2012
One of the this year's Man Booker Prize Judges, Bharat Tandon talks about the process of reading 150 novels to come to their decision. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the this year's Man Booker Prize Judges, Bharat Tandon talks about the process of reading 150 novels to come to their decision. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Radcliffe Royds tells the true story of how he came to live in a Soho skip and got arrested for attempted bank robbery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Star of Burlesque, Immodesty Blaize tells her own Soho story of her experiences there Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Blogger, columnist, clothes store owner and Soho scene veteran Clayton Littlewood reads from his first book: Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bonkbuster author Shirley Conran shows that EL James a thing or two as she reads a very rude bit from her eighties best-seller Lace. Not for the faint of heart.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Katy Regan gives an exclusive first reading from her new novel How We Met Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's our first Literary Salon in Brighton, courtesy of Aubin & Wills! The fantastic Eleanor Moran reads from her new novel The Last Time I Saw You, out in January 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reading FOR THE FIRST TIME from her already-bestselling memoir MY ANIMALS & OTHER FAMILY, Clare Balding joins Damian Barr at his Shoreditch House Literary Salon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alex Preston reading from The Revelations and talking secrets and lies with Damian Barr at Aubin & WIlls, Covent Garden, July 2012. With Damian Barr interviewing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jake Arnott reading FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME from his new book The House of Rumour at Aubin & Wills Salon July 2012. Amazing exclusive! With Damian Barr interviewing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hannah Rothschild talks about her new biography of her great Aunt Pannonica, 'the Jazz Baroness'. She led an extraordinary life from England's stately homes, battlefields of Africa, the holocaust to the New York jazz scene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In one of the funniest appearances yet at the Salon, Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson gives an exclusive reading from his new novel, Zoo Time, coming out in the Autumn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lead actor, Scott Shepherd, and director John Collins, talk about their stage production of The Great Gatsby. The play is a complete rendering of the novel, lasting eight hours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tom Bullough reads from his third novel, Konstantin, and talks to Damian about what attracted him to the story of the father of the Russian space programme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the first ever bilingual Salon, Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli reads from her debut novel Faces In The Crowd both in English and in Spanish. She talks to Damian about Latin America, a convent education and the problem with Magic Realism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Winner of the Costa Book Of The Year 2012, Andrew Miller reads from his prize winning novel Pure. He talks to Damian about revolutions, Dr Guillotin and his next novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chris Cleave reads from his forthcoming novel, Gold. He talks to Damian about why he wrote a novel about the world of Olympics speed cyclists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mark Forsyth reads from The Etymologicon, his book on the strange connections between words, which was a Christmas bestseller. Afterwards, he talks to Damian about the origins of swear words. A wee bit more sweary than usual! Not for the easily offended. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Damian Barr hosts an intimate Literary Salon at Aubin & Wills in West London. His first guest is novelist Jonathan Lee, reading from his new novel, Joy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The multi-award winning novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, and critic reads exclusively from his new book New Ways To Kill Your Mother. Afterwards he talks to Damian about W.B. Yeats, Barcelona orgies and the secret to writing a novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
One of the best-loved speakers at The Literary Salon, Richard Holloway makes his return to talk about his new memoir, Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt. Having stood down as the Bishop of Edinburgh in 2000, he is known for his outspoken views on religion and for his support for many progressive causes including gay marriage. Here he talks movingly to Damian about his own life and the lessons he's learned. Not a dry eye is left in the house. Highly recommended. Learn more about your...
Editor-in-chief of Vogue UK, Alexandra Shulman, unveils her sparkling debut novel, Can We Still Be Friends, reading from it for the very first time. She talks to Damian about writing a book while editing a glossy magazine, female friendships and how she is not good at recognising sexism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In another Literary Salon exclusive, Patrick Gale reads from his new novel A Perfectly Good Man for the very first time. He talks to Damian about email romances, growing up in a prison and his love for novels about Nuns Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Well known for his Digested Read column in The Guardian, writer John Crace reads his own inimitable version of Jane Austen's Persuasion, exclusive to The Literary Salon. He also talks to Damian about his new book Vertigo which follows his lifelong obsession with Tottenham Hotspur. Damian admits he's never seen a football match all the way through.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jojo Moyes reads exclusively for the first time from her new novel Me Before You. She talks to Damian about being in the bestseller lists, her unlikely choice of subject matter and how it feels to delete 70,000 words from her new novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SJ Watson reads from Before I Go To Sleep, and talks to Damian about how his first novel has become an international bestseller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Booker prize winning author DBC Pierre reads from a new short story and talks to Damian about the ultimate hangover cure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer and columnist Liz Hoggard talks about her new book Dangerous Women: The Guide To Modern Life Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Award winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell talks about her upcoming novel and reads an exclusive extract from her work in progress Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Craig Taylor talks about his new book - Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now, As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices