Hanif Kureishi

in conversation with John Sutherland Something to Tell You (Faber) follows the fortunes of a successful psychoanalyst who is reflecting on his coming-of-age in 1970s suburbia, on his first love, and on a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. That decade’s sense of sexual freedom, and ... (more)the exhilaration of the drug culture, as well as the violent struggle between the forces of labour and capital, provide a backdrop to the drama that develops thirty years later as the characters face an encroaching middle age with the traumas of their youth still unresolved. Kureishi will be in conversation with John Sutherland, recently Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at UCL, author of many books including How to Read a Novel, and twice chairman of the Man Booker prize. Tickets: £6 (discount for LRB subscribers - contact the shop for details) Book online at http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/events Discounts for LRB subscribers - contact the shop on books@lrbshop.co.uk for details

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In 1985, Hanif Kureishi's Oscar-nominated My Beautiful Launderette announced the arrival of a prolific new talent on the British cultural landscape. Since then the playwright, screenwriter, novelist and filmmaker has captured the zeitgeist of a multicultural, multiracial Britain in a string ... (more)of award-winning works from the Buddha of Suburbia to Gabriel's Gift. His 2006 screenplay Venus saw its venerable lead Peter O'Toole Oscar and BAFTA bound. Here he unveils his latest novel Something to Tell You, a coming-of-age tale of 70s suburbia, sexual desire and human frailty.