Royal Society of Literature

Booking is now open for our exciting programme of Spring events. Speakers include: Margaret Atwood, Eleanor Catton, Jonathan Dimbleby , Sebastian Faulks, Tobias Hill, Alan Hollinghurst, Alan Johnson , Hermionee Lee, Penelope Lively, Timberlake Wertenbaker and many more! Alan Hollinghurst (above) Last October, the 28-year-old New Zealand novelist Eleanor Catton became the youngest ever winner of the Man Booker Prize with her epic 832-page murder mystery The Luminaries. At an exclusive London event, jointly hosted by the RSL, the Australia & New Zealand Festival of Literature & Arts and Intelligent Life, Robert Macfarlane, chair of the 2013 Man Booker judges, interviews Catton for the first time. He asks how she did it, and what comes next. Eleanor Catton by Robert Catto. (above left)   The Royal Society of Literature, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA | 020 7845 4676 | info@rslit.org.