EVENTS

BOOK LAUNCHES CALL ME ISHMAELLE

New novel by Xiaolu Guo,  a reimagining of Melville’s MOBY DICK

about the book

 

UK BOOK LAUNCH

20 March 2025, 7pm. London Review of Books, W1


  PARIS BOOK LAUNCH - in conversation with Adam Biles

6 March 2025 18h. Shakespeare & Co, 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris
   
   
Edinburgh Book Festival
Aug 2025

CALL ME ISHMAELLE
author’s talk, Edinburgh Book Festival, Aug 2025

   

26 June 2025 6pm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

CALL ME ISHMAELLE, author’s talk
26th June 6pm, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
   

9 April 7pm
Brighton Festival
Brighton Dome

CALL ME ISHMAELLE, author’s talk, 9 April, 7pm, Brighton Festival, Brighton Dome
   
5 April 2025, 2pm
Fishbourne Lit Fest,
Chichester
CALL ME ISHMAELLE, author’s talk, 5 April 2025, 2pm, Fishbourne Lit Fest, Chichester.
   
26 March 2025 7:30pm
Topping Edinburgh Bookstore

CALL ME ISHMAELLE - ‘Book of the Month’
Topping Edinburgh Bookstore
Author’s talk, 26 March 2025 7:30pm

booking

   
25 March 2025
Collected Books, Durham

CALL ME ISHMAELLE, author’s talk
Collected Books, Durham. 25 March 2025

Booking

   
28 March 2025 7pm
Swedenborg House
London
Author’s talk with Iain Sinclair
28 March 2025, 7pm Swedenborg House, London,
   

20 March 2025, 7pm
London Review of Books, W1

UK book Launch CALL ME ISHMAELLE
a new novel by Xiaolu Guo,  a reimagining of Melville’s MOBY DICK
   
6 March 2025 18h
Shakespeare & Co
37 rue de la Bûcherie
75005 Paris
Paris book launch for CALL ME ISHMAELLE,
in conversation with Adam Biles
   

3 Feb 2025 1pm
Glasgow University Chapel
Glasgow

Xiaolu on Creative Writing
3 Feb 2025 1pm, Glasgow University Chapel, Glasgow
   

5 Nov 2024 5 pm
Portico Library, Manchester University

Xiaolu Guo on MY BATTLE OF HASTINGS
   

11 October, 2:30 pm
Cheltenham Literary Festival

Xiaolu Guo on MY BATTLE OF HASTINGS
   
2 October 6:30 pm
Hatchards at Piccadilly
Xiaolu Guo talks to Gareth Evans about MY BATTLE OF HASTINGS
   
18 Aug 2024 7pm
Edinburgh Book Festival
Xiaolu Guo discusses MY BATTLE OF HASTINGS
   

20 July 2024 2pm
Southbank Centre
Purcell Room

Xiaolu Guo on British Identity and her new nonfiction MY BATTLE OF HASTINGS
   
13 April 2023
British Library, London

RADICAL, A LIFE OF MY OWN by Xiaolu Guo, book launch, Chatto & Windus

   

5 Jan 2023, 12-2 pm
Berlin, Freie Universität

A Life Between Words
Event at Freie Universität Berlin

   
30 Nov 2022
BERLIN DAADGALERIE
A LOVER'S DISCOURSE, Xiaolu in Conversation with Divya Ghelani
DAADGALERIE, Berlin, 30 Nov 22, 7 pm
   

16 November 2022
7 pm - Berlin

Special Screening '5 Men and a Caravaggio' + Q&A with Xiaolu Guo, director
Kino Central, 10178 Berlin, 16 Nov 7 pm
   

19 July 2019
7pm
Royal Albert Hall, London

BBC Proms opening
Long Is the Journey - Short Is the Memory” (orchestra and choir)
composed by 
Zosha S. Di Castri, lyrics by Xiaolu Guo
   
26 May 2019
Whitechapel Gallery London

Xiaolu Guo Retrospective, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2:45 pm - Intro + How Is Your Fish Today?
4:30 pm - Late at Night, Voices of ordinary madness