Events

Award-winning writer and critic Geoff Dyer — “a national treasure” (Zadie Smith) — will be speaking with Sloane Crosley for the launch of his new memoir, Homework. Beloved for his brilliantly ranging, hilarious criticism and essays — Steve Martin calls Out of Sheer Rage, an exasperated study of D.H. Lawrence, “the funniest book I have […]

Geoff Dyer will be speaking with Lili Anolik about his new memoir Homework, named a most anticipated book of 2025 by Vulture | The Guardian | Financial Times | The Observer | The Times (London) | Literary Hub "A picture of postwar England unlike any other . . . A highly original memoir that will […]

On Becoming Susan Choi, Douglas Stuart, Geoff Dyer Lauded novelist Susan Choi’s new Flashlight (2025) explores a girl’s confrontation with loss and memory after her father’s sudden disappearance revealing how childhood trauma can splinter a family. Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart portrays adolescence in working-class Glasgow in his acclaimed novels Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo, […]

Geoff will be discussing his new book Homework with Francesca Mari. A portrait of a young boy, who keeps passing exams―and of a changing England in the 1960s and 1970s. The only child of a sheet-metal worker and a dinner lady who worked at the canteen of the local school, Geoff Dyer grew up in […]

Daunt Books Notting Hill (on Kensington Park Rd) are hosting an event with the prolific and brilliant Geoff Dyer, who’ll be speaking about Homework, his first memoir, recollecting his childhood and coming of age in postwar Britain. He will be interviewed by Andrew Anthony, a longtime Observer feature writer, author of The Fallout and Geoff’s […]

The author of, among others, Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It and Paris Trance: A Romance was born in 1958 and grew up in a world shaped by memories of shortages and the Second World War. With characteristic comic affection he recalls the joys and lingering questions of every childhood, and […]

Geoff will be discussing his memoir Homework — and much more — with critic Leo Robson. For more information and to purchase very cheap tickets click HERE.

Geoff will be talking about this new book Homework at the FlipSide Festival in Framlingham, Suffolk. For more information and tickets visit the festival website HERE.

Geoff will be at The Tabernacle in London as part of a great 5 x 15 line-up. For more information and tickets to hear 5 speakers, each for 15 minutes, click HERE.

Geoff delivers the 2025 New Statesman/Goldsmiths Prize Lecture, asking whether the novel is still ‘the one bright book of life’. For his talk Dyer goes back to the title source, to the claims made by D. H. Lawrence exactly one hundred years ago, in his eponymous essay, and look at how the novel – and […]

Two of the UK’s most original literary voices discuss their acclaimed new memoirs, Homework and Children of Radium, in conversation with critic John Self. In Homework, Geoff Dyer turns his razor-sharp eye to his own story as the only child of a sheet-metal worker and a school dinner lady in post-war England — from the […]

Triumphant homecoming! The local boy will discuss Homework, his memoir about growing up in Cheltenham, on 17 October. Geoff has also curated and will take part in 4 other events. For more information about his Homework event at 4pm on Friday 17 October, in conversation with Travis Elborough, click HERE. The other events Geoff has […]