Damian Barr’s Literary Salon

Hosted ByDamian Barr

Damian Barr's Literary Salon tempts the world's best writers to read exclusively from their latest greatest works and share their own personal stories. Star guests include: Jojo Moyes, John Waters, Yaa Gyasi, Mary Beard, Diana Athill and Louis de Bernières - all in front of a live audience at leading glamorous locations world-wide. Our London home is the Savoy. Suave Salonnière Damian Barr is your host.

Produced by Megan Bay Dorman and Russell Finch.

EXCLUSIVE: new reading from You Will Be Safe Here

In celebration of its paperback release, Damian Barr gives an exclusive new reading for Salonistas from his debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here. The book is a powerful and urgent novel of two connected South African stories, exploring how the past influences the present and what choices we have – or not – in influencing our destiny.

Listen in for news about the paperback – released in the UK April 2nd 2020 – and for a beautiful new reading from a particularly tender scene in the book.

You Will Be Safe Here is published by Bloomsbury and will be available in paperback in the UK from 2nd April 2020. Available to pre-order now.

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