Catch Betty Trask Prize-winning author James Clarke on Saturday 23rd September as he joins fellow authors Gurnaik Johal and Naomi Pearce to discuss his new novel Sanderson’s Isle.

The event, which begins at 12pm at St Peter’s Church, De Beauvoir Sq., is entitled ‘Love, London’. For more information, including how to book your tickets, see here.

“2023 began with the publication of Mark Hyatt’s Love, Leda by Peninsula Press. Celebrating Hyatt’s lost-and-found London, we’re joined by three writers whose recent books are rewriting the city: Gurnaik Johal listens in to the secrets of Southall whispered in hidden lives and languages in We Move, while James Clarke and Naomi Pearce reimagine London’s wild artistic 1970s in relation, respectively, to Lake District communes in Sanderson’s Isle, as Clarke’s protagonist takes a trip through hippy England, and modern-day Hackney redevelopment, where a contemporary artist connects to the complex intimacies of an artists’ studio’s past in Innominate. Expect revelations.”

James’s third novel after The Litten Path and Hollow in the Land, Sanderson’s Isle follows one man’s journey through swinging London and the Lake District in the psychedelic 1960s. Grab your copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.