Utopia Now: John Burnside and Matthew Beaumont
Wednesday 24 May 2017, 6 p.m. · 64 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/7/3/9/2/1892937-1-eng-GB/58de6e1f49069.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/7/3/9/2/1892937-1-eng-GB/58de6e1f49069.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/7/3/9/2/1892937-1-eng-GB/58de6e1f49069.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/7/3/9/2/1892937-1-eng-GB/58de6e1f49069.jpg 1200w)
John Burnside’s novel, Havergey (Little Toller), is set on a remote island in the aftermath of an ecological catastrophe. Burnside read from the novel and was in conversation with Matthew Beaumont, author of Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London (Verso). The event was chaired by Gareth Evans, curator of film at the Whitechapel Gallery.
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