Talking Books: THE LAUNCH with Lynn Barber

Friday 11th February, 8pm

Tonight’s speaker is Lynn Barber, whose interviews have won five British Press Awards and a What the Papers Say award. There are two published collections, Mostly Men and Demon Barber, both from Viking. She has also written books on Victorian naturalists, and sex - her first book was called How To Improve Your Man in Bed. Born in l944, she read English at Oxford before working for Penthouse magazine for seven years, then the Sunday Express, The Independent on Sunday, the Sunday Times, Vanity Fair, The Daily Telegraph, before joining the Observer in l996. Barber's memoir of her teenage love affair, An Education, was published in June 2009. Its genesis was in a short piece on a similar theme that Barber wrote for British literary magazine Granta. Nick Hornby adapted this short article into a film of the same name, made by BBC Films and released in October 2009.

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