Will Self will be attending three events at the Melbourne writers festival at the end of this month (28-30 August), on the death of the novel, the politics and pleasures of walking and the closing night address.
Will is also going to be taking part in this ABC book club recording at their studios in Melbourne with Jon Ronson on August 28 at 6.30pm.
29 April: Magna Carta and Commemoration with Will Self, 7pm, United Reform Church, High Street, Egham.
1 May: An Audience with Will Self, 6pm, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Southampton.
19 May: Defeating cancer: reasons to be hopeful, panel discussion, 6.30pm, Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1.
20 May: The Philosophy of Particle Physics, Bradford literature festival, Midland hotel, 7.30pm, £8.
2 June: Trois variations de traduction sur un texte inédit, Hôtel de Massa, 38 rue du Fbg-St-Jacques, 75014, Paris, 7.30pm.
7 June: Stoke Newington literary festival, 4pm, town hall, £10.
17 June: The Internet is not the answer: Andrew Keen in conversation with Will Self, 7pm, The Idler Academy, 81 Westbourne Park Road, London W2 5QH.
8 July: Winchester festival.
See Will Self in conversation with Owen Hatherley on the third floor of the library at Brunel University at 5pm. on Tuesday. They will be discussing how British ideas of class have changed over the past 20 years, as well as how this has been registered in the built environment. The event is free and open to the public. For further details, go here.
There are still some tickets left to see Will reading from his new novel, Shark, at The Idler Academy, 81 Westbourne Park Road, London W2 5QH on Thursday 6 November, from 7pm. For more details, visit the Idler here.
Buy tickets to see Will Self at Archway With Words on Tuesday 14 October at 7.30pm, Archway Methodist Church, Archway Close N19 3TD, wegottickets.com/event/289436. For more details, go to archwaywithwords.com.
Will is going to be taking part in a Q&A session at the Guardian on Monday 11 August. For more details and to submit a question, go here.
25 July: Urban Psychosis, An evening with Will Self, Manchester.
12 August: Edinburgh Book Festival, 8pm, Charlotte Square Gardens, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, EH2 4DR.
9 September: City Books, 7pm, Ropetackle Arts Centre, Little High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea BN43 5EG. Tickets £8 available from Ropetackle or City Books.
10 September: Topping and Company Booksellers, The Paragon, Bath, Somerset BA1 5LS.
11 September: LRB bookshop, 7pm.
16 September: Desert Island Flicks, Arnolfini, Bristol.
17-19 September: Annual Conference and Social Housing Exhibition, ICC, Birmingham.
22 September: 5×15 at the Tabernacle, Notting Hill, London. Sold out.
23 September: Wakefield Lit Fest, 7.30pm, Unity Hall, Wakefield.
26 September: Shakespeare & Co, Paris.
30 September: In conversation with Mark Wallinger about Labyrinth at the LRB bookshop, 7pm.
2 October: Words in Walden Festival, 7.30pm, Friends’ School Hall, Mount Pleasant Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 3EB.
3 October: Cheltenham Festival, Shark event.
4 October: Cheltenham Festival, National Conversation Event organised by Norwich Writer’s Centre.
7 October: The State We’re In, Brunel University, 5pm-6pm.
9 October: Ilkley Literature Festival, Kings Hall in Ilkley.
11 October: Havant Literary Festival, 8pm, The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, East Street, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 1BS.
14 October: Archway With Words.
16 October: The Playhouse Theatre, Norwich.
17 October: The Regal Cinema Evesham.
18 October: Nottingham Lit Fest.
21 October: Plymouth International Book Festival, 8pm, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University.
25 October: Manchester Literature Festival Writer’s Conference, keynote speech in the morning followed by an “in conversation with…” in the afternoon.
4 November: 5×15, Conway Hall.
12 November: Intelligence Squared debate on psychiatry, the pharmaceutical industry and mental disorders, Royal Geographical Society, 7pm.
13 November: Bristol Grammar School, 7pm, Great Hall, Bristol Grammar School, University Road, Bristol BS8 1SR.
14 November: Literary Leicester, 6pm.
21 November: Being Human Festival, Aberdeen.
25 November: Granta event\ at Notting Hill Community Church, Kensington Park Rd, London W11 2ES with Iain Sinclair discussing JG Ballard, 7pm.
29 November: Big Gothic Debate, 4pm-7pm, Lutyens Crypt, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Leggat theatre, Liverpool University.
3 December: 6pm, University of London Institute, Paris.
Will Self is going to be exploring the theme of capital in relation to new architecture in the city, in a lecture entitled When Liquid turns to Solid: the Spatialisation of Capital Flows in 21st Century London at Kings Place next Monday. This will be followed by a conversation with Andy Beckett and a Q&A.
For more details and tickets, go here.
Or read Will’s associated article here at the Guardian.
Will Self is going to be in conversation with the novelist Matt Thorne on 21 May at 6pm as part of the Brunel Author Series, where he will be reading from his work and discussing his writing. The event is free, but ticketed. For more information, email library.events@brunel.ac.uk.
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