Francis Spufford in conversation at Waterstones Piccadilly

We’re delighted to welcome Francis Spufford to Piccadilly for an evening of conversation to celebrate publication of Nonesuch. From the Cahokia Jazz author comes a richly imagined thrill-ride of a novel set in the London of 1939, as an ambitious young woman working in the City crosses paths with a technical whizz who leads her into a strange world of time beds, spirits and the twisted passages between past and present. Francis will be hosted by fellow author Kaliane Bradley.

Francis Spufford is the author of five highly-praised works of non-fiction, most frequently described by reviewers as either ‘bizarre’ or ‘brilliant’, and usually as both. His debut novel Golden Hill won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and the British Book Awards Debut Novel of the Year. His second novel, Light Perpetual, was awarded the 2022 Encore Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize. His third novel, Cahokia Jazz, was published in 2023. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and lives near Cambridge.

Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her debut novel, The Ministry of Time, was an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and a global sensation. It was chosen as one of the Observer‘s ‘Best Debut Novels of 2024’ and was a Barack Obama summer pick; it was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, a Books Are My Bag award, the Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award.

Please note: book and ticket option includes a copy of Nonesuch (RRP £20) available for collection on the night.