1-5 October 2026 FLEM Literatura Magaluf, Mallorca, Spain
17 June 2026 Lara sworn in as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow
24 March 2026 In conversation with Farah Ali about her novel Telegraphy at Brick Lane Bookshop
18 February 2026 In conversation with James Meek, Your Life Without Me, London Review Bookshop: listen here
15 November 2025 Boektopia Literary Festival, Bookstore de Groene Waterman, Antwerp, Belgium
27 September 2025 In conversation about Spent Light with Gareth Evans, FLIPSIDE Festival 2025, Suffolk
11 September 2025 In conversation with Joanna Pocock about her memoir Greyhound, The Broadway Bookshop
14 August 2025 In conversation about Spent Light with Dan Richards, Edinburgh International Book Festival
20 May 2025 In conversation with Francesca Wade, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, London Review Bookshop: listen here
10 April 2025 In conversation with Michael Amherst, The Boyhood of Cain, The Broadway Bookshop
26 March 2025 Reading with Julian Stannard and Philip Hancock, Music Room, Great Ormond Street
19 March 2025 Guest Tutor, Residential Writing Course, Arvon Foundation, Devon
13 March 2025 On Samuel Beckett, with Jennifer Hodgson, London Review Bookshop: listen here
5 March 2025 In conversation with Rose Ruane, Naomi Booth & chair Stuart Hennigan, for International Women’s Day, Leeds Central Library.
26 February 2025 In conversation with Simon Okotie about his book, The Future of the Novel, at Libreria bookshop, London. Tickets here!
6 November 2025 Finalists’ winner event, Goldsmiths Prize 2024, Foyles Charing Cross Road
23 October 2024 Finalists’ conversation for the Goldsmiths Prize 2024, Goldsmiths, University of London
13 October 2024 In conversation with Abe Odedina, ‘For Crying Out Loud’, Ed Cross at 1-54, Somerset House, London
7 October 2024 ‘Creative Conversations’, University of Glasgow
20 July 2024 Chair, ‘You Belong Here: British Identity’, with Jassa Ahluwalia, Xiaolu Guo, Tomiwa Owolade, London Literature Festival, Southbank
1 February 2024 In conversation with Juan José Adriasola, University of Oxford
29 January 2024 Launch for SPENT LIGHT with Jennifer Hodgson, London Review Bookshop: listen here
29 October 2023 In conversation with Teju Cole, Tremor, London Literature Festival, Southbank
27 August 2021 In conversation with David Keenan, Monument Maker, Edinburgh Book Festival
4 December 2019 In conversation with Tim Etchells, Endland, Broadway Bookshop, London
8 November 2019 In conversation with Diane Williams, The Collected Stories of Diane Williams, London Review Bookshop: listen here
21 November 2018 In conversation with Lavinia Greenlaw, In the City of Love’s Sleep, Broadway Bookshop, London
20 July 2018 In conversation with Lynn Barber, Curious Arts Festival, Pylewell Park, New Forest
14 March 2018 ‘Writing a First Memoir’, with Hannah Lowe, Brunel Writers, Brunel University, London
8 March 2018 In conversation with Michael Amherst, Broadway Bookshop, London
1 March 2018 In conversation with Gonzalo Ceron Garcia, Warwick University Literary Salon
27 February 2018 In Yer Ear, The French House, London
5 February 2018 MIR Live The Harrison, Harrison Road, London
30 November 2017 In conversation with M John Harrison, Housmans, London
26 November 2017 Medicine Unboxed, Cheltenham
22 October 2017 In conversation with Rachel Genn, Off the Shelf Festival of Words, Sheffield
12 October 2017 Gordon Burn Prize, Durham Book Festival, Durham
2 August 2017 If/Then: Brexit Poetics, Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, London
20 July 2017 ‘Is Non-Fiction the New Fiction?’ West Cork Literary Fest, Bantry
5 July 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize 2017, Free Word Centre, London
24 June 2017 Bread & Roses Award, London Radical Bookfair
30 May 2017 Summer Lecture, Birkbeck Dept for English & Humanities, London
26 May 2017 Swimmers, The Function Room, Cock Tavern, London
17 March 2017 The Story, Conway Hall, London 2.20pm
14 March 2017 ‘Writing at the Crossroads’, The London Book Fair