Time: 6.30pm, Tuesday 11 November
Address: Maggs Bros, Bedford Square
Frances Wilson’s Electric Spark (Bloomsbury), about the early years of the great novelist Muriel Spark, can claim to be the most highly praised biography of 2025. ‘A brilliant, wonderfully shrewd biography’ (William Boyd); ‘Pitch-perfect, electrifying. Reconfirms Wilson’s pre-eminence as Maestra of British biography’ (Rachel Holmes); ‘Joyously, brilliantly intelligent’ (Anne Enright): these are just some of the tributes the book has received. ‘In Spark,’ Rachel Cooke wrote in the Observer, ‘the cleverest and the weirdest [of the writers Wilson has written about]… she may have found her ultimate subject.’
Wilson’s previous literary subjects have included Dorothy Wordsworth, Thomas De Quincey and DH Lawrence.
She will be in conversation with Rachel Holmes, author of books including Eleanor Marx: A Life, The Secret Life of Dr James Barry, and Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel.
Tickets £12.50
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Maggs Bros
48 Bedford Square
London
WC1B 3DR