Please take the opportunity to catch up via our Youtube channel with talks you may have missed in 2025. Here is Booker-prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst discussing Our Evenings last October with John Mullan – UCL professor of literature and regular pundit of all things bookish for the BBC and The Guardian. We asked Alan to talk about settings – not usually his main focus – which led to a fascinating discussion about the rural English backwaters in which many Londoners have their roots and the experience of returning to and escaping from them; also how the places where you started life tend to form an auto-scenery for everything you read. The landscape of Our Evenings has a particular resonance for Hollinghurst, with a poignant and playful twist…