by Sarah | Jul 23, 2025 | Author event
The Haunted Wood Sam Leith7.30pmTuesday 27 January 2026St Mary’s Barnes The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood ReadingIn his history of the children’s literary canon, Sam Leith reveals the magic of childhood reading, from the ancient tales of Aesop, through...
by Sarah | Jul 23, 2025 | Author event
The Frozen People Elly Griffiths7.30pmTuesday, 9 September 2025St Mary’s Barnes Elly Griffiths, the award-winning author of three best-selling series of crime novels, is opening our season. Her Ruth Galloway, Harbinder Kaur and Brighton Mystery series are...
by Sarah | Jul 23, 2025 | Author event
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz Anne Sebba7.30pmTuesday 14 October 2025St Mary’s Barnes What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women who owed their survival to their participation in a Nazi propaganda project? And how did it...
by Sarah | Jul 23, 2025 | Author event
Our Evenings Sir Alan Hollinghurst7.30pmTuesday 18 November 2025St Mary’s Barnes The Booker prize-winning novelist, Sir Alan Hollinghurst, will be talking about his latest novel. Spanning half a century and written with Hollinghurst’s trademark eloquence...
by Sarah | Jul 28, 2024 | Author event
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...
