The Man Booker at Birkbeck: Professor Russell Celyn Jones in conversation with Sarah Waters

Registration is free, but places are limited, so book promptly to ensure your place at this exciting literary event.

This November, Birkbeck and the Booker Prize Foundation – which is responsible for the award of the Man Booker Prize, the leading literary award in the English-speaking world – are collaborating on an exciting initiative to bring together students from all disciplines to discuss outstanding contemporary literary fiction.

Acclaimed novelist Sarah Waters will be joining Russell Celyn Jones, Professor of Creative Writing, in an evening at Birkbeck to discuss her latest novel, The Little Stranger, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize.  Sarah Waters is well known for her novels Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and Fingersmith, all set in Victorian London, and the wartime/post war novel The Night Watch, which was recently adapted by the BBC. Russell Celyn Jones is himself an award-winning novelist and was a Man Booker judge in 2002 when Waters' novel Fingersmith was shortlisted.