Friendship in Fiction: a special programme from London Literature Festival

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Elizabeth Day and Johny Pitts host a special programme from the London Literature Festival which this year celebrates friendship. Recorded at Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall, Elizabeth and Johny explore literary friendships on and beyond the page, talking about some of the novels which have beautifully captured the complexities, joys, and truths of some of our most enduring and rewarding relationships. They're joined on stage by; Andrew O’Hagan whose novel Mayflies evocatively explores the beauty of male friendship, Emma Jane Unsworth whose novels, Animals and Adults are glorious and messy, witty and truthful stories of female friendship and Ayisha Malik who pens an unlikely alliance between two older women in her novel This Green and Pleasant Land. Book List – Sunday 31 October and Thursday 4 November Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan Adults by Emma-Jane Unsworth Animals by Emma-Jane Unsworth Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery My Brilliant Friend by Elene Ferrante Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood Fiere by Jackie Kay Last Orders by Graham Swift Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald On the Road by Jack Kerouac Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Detransition, Baby: A Novel by Torrey Peters Emma by Jane Austen Translations by Brian Friel Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher