Boris Akunin (pen-name of Grigory Chkhartishvili) – famous as Russia’s leading detective and crime writer, Akunin also writes ‘serious’ literary novels as well as essay
‘INTERNATIONAL RIVETING READS’ Launch event for ‘WRITERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!’ a festival of literature and social change. 28th April – 1st May 2017 Waterstones Piccadilly
Writers of the World Unite brings the world to Waterstones Piccadilly. Over four days, we’ll talk Russian revolutionary poetry, debate identity politics in the age of globalisati
A Euro Stars Salon Friday 28th April, 6:30 pm – 8 pm, Waterstones Piccadilly Tickets (£6.50 +£1 booking fee) available here. Launching Writers of the World Unite!, a 3-day
Vesna Goldsworthy is Serbian – born in Belgrade in 1961, but living in London since 1986. She writes in English, her third language. She is Professor of Creative Writing at U
Vaseem Khan is the bestselling author of the Baby Ganesh Detective Agency novels, a cosy crime series based in Mumbai, India and featuring a baby elephant. The first book in the se
Rory MacLean is the author of 12 books including the ‘UK Top Ten’ Stalin’s Nose, a travelogue on eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Under the Dragon, Magic
Colombian-born Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is the author of What If Latin America Ruled the World? and Story of a Death Foretold, two award-winning accounts of Latin America today. He t
George Szirtes was born in Hungary in 1948 and came to England as a refugee in 1956. He published his first book of poems in English, The Slant Door, in 1979, which won the Faber M
Elif Shafak is an award-winning novelist, the most widely read female writer in Turkey and published in 47 languages. She is also a political commentator and an inspirational publi
