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
The Making of the Modern Middle East Jeremy Bowen7.30pmTuesday 17 February 2026St Mary’s Barnes We are delighted that Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of BBC News is coming to talk to us about his book The Making of the Modern Middle East and his...
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...
