EVENTS

Friday 5th October

Novelist Barry Unsworth in conversation with psychoanalyst Ken Robinson
At the Henry Thomas Room, London Metropolitan University

Click here to read an account of the event.

Click to listen to the conversation and the question and answer session

Ken Robinson (left) and Barry Unsworth

Barry Unsworth has published fourteen novels, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times: for Pascali's Island (1980), Morality Play (1995) and Sacred Hunger for which he went on to win the prize in 1992. His latest novel The Ruby in her Navel (2006), set in twelfth-century Sicily, was also nominated for the Prize. Pascali's Island and Morality Play have both been adapted as films.

Ken Robinson is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Newcastle upon Tyne and Honorary Archivist of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Before training as a psychoanalyst he taught English Literature in University.