Joseph O'Connor and Charles Lambert will both take part in events at Foyles Charing Cross over the next few weeks. O'Connor will speak at Harvill Secker International Writing Day on Saturday 27 February while Lambert will talk at Picador Day on Saturday 20 March.

O'Connor will be in discussion with Clare Clark and Nicholas Shakespeare this Saturday 27 February about how literature has the power to change how we view the world and what this means in our media-weary age. His latest novel, GHOST LIGHT, will be published by Harvill Secker this June. The novel is a poignant and heartbreaking love story, told through a narrative that moves between London and Ireland in the 1910s, and 1950s Dublin.

Winner of the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award, the Time Out Macaulay Fellowship of the Irish Arts Council and the Sunday Tribune Short Story Award, his previous novel REDEMPTION FALLS was nominated for the 2007 Prix Femina Etranger and the 2009 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award 2008. STAR OF THE SEA, winner of numerous international awards, was voted as one of 15 'Vintage Future Classics' in 2005, was a Sunday Times No 1 bestseller in paperback and Nielsen Booktrack best-selling adult fiction paperback of the year in 2004, and became the first of the 'Richard & Judy' book club choices to become a superseller.

Praise for Joseph O'Connor:
'Fiction at its very best.' - Roddy Doyle
'Beautiful writing and heart-breaking sequences...a dazzling narrative.' - Colm Toibin
'This book took my breath away...a brave book and only a brave heart could have written it.' - Frank McCourt

Charles Lambert will also appear at Foyles on Saturday 20 March for Picador Day. He will speak with Graham Robb, William Fiennes and Jim Crace on the theme 'Writing of Place'. His latest novel ANY HUMAN FACE is a thrilling, visceral novel about sex, art, and death set in contemporary Rome. Picador publish in May 2010.

In 2008 Picador published Charles Lambert's debut novel LITTLE MONSTERS, a novel about damage and displacement set in Italy and post World War II England, which was described by John Harding in the Daily Mail as 'beautifully written and crafted, and more compelling than many thrillers.' LITTLE MONSTERS is now out in paperback.  Charles Lambert's short story collection, A SCENT OF CINNAMON, whose title story won an O. Henry Prize in the US, was published in the UK by Salt, also in 2008.

Charles Lambert was born in Lichfield, United Kingdom, in 1953. He now lives in Fondi, between Rome and Naples.

Praise for Charles Lambert:
 'Charles Lambert is a seriously good writer.' - Beryl Bainbridge
 'Compelling reading.' - Patricia Duncker
 'Charles Lambert writes as if his life depends on it. He takes risks at every turn.' - Hannah Tinti
 'A very interesting writer who could one day attain classic status.' - Maggie Gee

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