Winter: Ali Smith and Olivia Laing

Following her Man Booker shortlisted Autumn, Ali Smith was at the shop to present its sequel Winter, (Hamish Hamilton), the second in a quartet of novels reflecting and embedded in the shifting seasons. A book full of truths for the post-truth era, Winter confronts and contrasts this bleakest of seasons with the evergreen qualities of love, memory, art and laughter. Smith will be in conversation with Olivia Laing, writer and critic, and author of, most recently, The Lonely City (Canongate).