Goodlord: Ella Frears in Conversation with Octavia Bright

Taking the form of one long email addressed to an estate agent, Goodlord is a subversive response to the housing crisis and a beautiful meditation on place and home.

Ella Frears works at the intersection of poetry and visual art. Her collection Shine, Darling was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, and her collaborative installation The Six Pillars of Modernism was on show at Tate St Ives. Ella hosts and co-hosts shows for Soho Radio and is currently the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Goodlord, her first novel, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and was selected as a Sky Arts Awards Breakthrough Artist nominee.

Octavia Bright is a writer and co-host of Literary Friction, the literary podcast and NTS Radio show, with Carrie Plitt. She also presents programmes for BBC R4 including Open Book. Her writing has been published in a number of magazines including the White Review, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Wasafiri, Somesuch Stories, and The Sunday Times, amongst others. Her first book This Ragged Grace is published by Canongate.

The event will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.

Tickets: £10 General Admission / £14 Book and Ticket, inc. a copy of Goodlord (RRP £10.99) Venue: The Auditorium (Level 6) at Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road*

*Please note that the Auditorium at Foyles is fully accessible from the Ground floor lifts.