University of Aberdeen historian unmasks Hitler as the real author of a ‘biography’ which boosted his rise to power. The first biography of Adolf Hitler, which presented him as ‘Germany’s saviour’, compared him to Jesus and helped propel him up the political ranks, was actually a self-penn
Award-winning and bestselling Finnish crime writers Antti Tuomainen (The Healer, Dark as My Heart and now, The Mine) AND Kati Hiekkapelto (The Hummingbird, The Defenceless and now, The Exiled) will be at Dulwich Books on 2 November 2016, 7pm, in conversation with Ayo Onatade of Shots magazine.
In The Invisible Cities (Le Città invisibili), Italo Calvino wrote, “The hell of the living is not something that will be”. It is already here; it takes on real contours during times of war. Scarcely any other book in recent years has described war in such a nightmarish and intensive way as Na
Saturday 3 December 2016, 2:30 pm – 4:15 pm, Victoria & Albert Museum, The Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre Children’s Laureate, author and illustrator Chris Riddell is known for his exquisite and intricate drawings and engaging characters, enchanting adults and children alike.
The Demon and Mnemosyne (Memory) Some rulers seem to live forever. Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe is one of them. Born in 1924, there seems to be no end to his almost 40-year-old regime. In Petina Gappah’s debut novel The Book of Memory (published by Faber & Faber in 2015; trans. by Patricia Klobu
Thu 10 November 2016, 9:30 am – 8 pm UCL SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, London Free but please register here. The event aims to promote the work of a major interwar Polish literary figure Zofia Nałkowska little known to English-speaking readers until recently, due to the lack of translations. In 200
