Events

Geoff will be introducing a screening of 'Where Eagles Dare' (directed by Brian G Hutton, and starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood). He will be signing his new book Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: Watching Eagles Dare after the event.

Geoff Dyer will introduce a screening of Point Blank.

Geoff will be at the LA Times Festival of Books to talk about the relationship between literature and film. Geoff's latest book is Broadsword Calling Danny Boy, on the film Where Eagles Dare, starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. Geoff will also be talking about his book Zona, on Tarkosvky's film Stalker.

Join acclaimed author Geoff Dyer for a funny and engaging multi-media exploration of the 1960s World War II movie Where Eagles Dare, a film he has loved since childhood, and the subject of his new book, "Broadsword Calling Danny Boy." For more information and tickets please click here.

Geoff will be speaking about this new book Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: Watching Eagles Dare.

In this special 50th-anniversary celebration of the movie, Geoff explains why it is indelibly imprinted on his consciousness and that of almost all British males of a certain age. This event includes film clips and, if watches can be synchronized correctly, perfectly matched readings from the book. Geoff’s earlier book on film, Zona, was about […]

Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage, published in 1997, is a brilliant account of attempting to write, and most often failing, a book about his great hero D.H. Lawrence. Now, more than two decades later, he has edited a selection of Lawrence's essays for Penguin. Subjects covered in this freewheeling volume include art, morality, obscenity, […]

Geoff will be attending this year's Kapittel Festival in Stavanger, Norway, from 18-22 September. This year his books White Sands and Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It are published in Norwegian. Geoff's event will be on 19 September at 6pm. For more information about the event and the festival click here.

From immigration rights to climate change, California has been ground zero for the most crucial questions of our time. The sixth volume in the series that has been hailed by NPR, O Magazine, and Vogue, Fremman’s: California features stunning new work collected by editor John Freeman (himself a native of Sacramento) from a broad selection […]

MOLLY LAMBERT, GEOFF DYER AND TOSH BERMAN DISCUSS I USED TO BE CHARMING: THE REST OF EVE BABITZ From the 1970s through the 1990s, Eve Babitz wrote on a wild variety of topics for some of the biggest publications around, from Esquire to Vogue to The New York Times Book Review. I Used to Be […]

In new books about the making of two famous films of the 1960s, award-winning writers Geoff Dyer (Broadsword Calling Danny Home) and W. K. Stratton (The Wild Bunch) take us behind the scenes of Where Eagles Dare, starring Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton, and Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch. Loving homages by fans of these […]

Geoff will be at the Key West Literary Seminar in Florida, whose theme this year is Sports and Literature. Geoff will be giving the keynote lecture which opens the festival on Thursday 9th at 7.15pm. The lecture, entitled “Introductory Report from the Head Groundsman”, will be followed by a book signing. On Friday Geoff will […]