Monica Macias

Black Girl from Pyonhyang: In Search of My Identity Monica Macias7.30pmTuesday 6 May 2025St Mary’s Barnes In 1979, seven-year-old Monica Macias was sent by her father Francisco, the president of Equitorial Guinea, to the beautiful, unfamiliar surroundings of...

Andrew O’Hagan

Caledonian Road Andrew O’Hagan7.30pmTuesday 8 April 2025St Mary’s Barnes Andrew O’Hagan was born in Glasgow. He has been nominated for the Booker Prize, was voted one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, and won the E. M. Forster...

JoJo Moyes

JoJo Moyes in conversation 7.30pmTuesday 25 FebruarySt Mary’s Barnes JoJo Moyes is one of Britain’s most successful writers. Her books, which have been translated into 46 languages, have sold over 40 million copies worldwide. Two of her books, Last Letter...

S J Parris

Alchemy S J Parris7.30pmTuesday 21 January 2025St Mary’s Barnes No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller SJ Parris is the pseudonym of the author and journalist Stephanie Merritt. It was as a student at Cambridge researching a paper on the period that Stephanie first...

Matt Chorley

Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors: 50 Places That Changed British Politics Matt Chorley7.30pmTuesday 12 November 2024St Mary’s Barnes Matt Chorley has been a Westminster-based political journalist since 2005, when politics was boring, and it has gradually got...