by Sarah | Jul 23, 2025 | Author event
Black Butterflies Priscilla Morris7.30pmTuesday 26 May 2026St Mary’s Barnes Priscilla Morris draws on her part-Yugoslav heritage for this novel, short-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction amongst several other prizes. Set in 1992, at the time of the outbreak...
by Sarah | Jul 23, 2025 | Author event
The Party Tessa Hadley7.30pmTuesday 7 April 2026St Mary’s Barnes Tessa Hadley, the award-winning author, will be talking to Harriett Gilbert, the BBC broadcaster whose support of BLS is invaluable to us. They will be talking about Tessa’s latest coming-of-age...
by Sarah | Jul 23, 2025 | Author event
Witch Trial Harriet Tyce7.30pmTuesday 31 March 2026Kitson Hall Harriet Tyce practised as a criminal barrister before turning to writing crime fiction and she has published five novels to date. She also appeared on the recent television series of Traitors where she...
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...
