Scarlett Thomas will be discussing her riotously enjoyable new novel Oligarchy with  the literary journalist Alex Peake-Tomkinson.

Join us in welcoming the vivaciously original novelist Scarlett Thomas (author of The End of Mr Y and PopCo) to The Second Shelf to discuss her riotously enjoyable new novel Oligarchy. This blackly comic novel set in a girls' boarding school satirises the hysteria of the diet industry, Instagram and young women's behaviour but it is not without heart. The Times has said of Oligarchy: “Wickedly funny … Thomas has great fun with the familiar components of the boarding school yarn, even as she subverts them. Her writing is spikily humorous and controlled … This jet-black novel begs to be dramatised”. Scarlett will be in conversation with the literary journalist Alex Peake-Tomkinson, discussing excess and appetite and how she managed to make Oligarchy so hilarious and compelling at the same time. There will be a short reading by Scarlett from Oligarchy. There will also be time for audience questions and for Scarlett to sign copies of Oligarchy which will be on sale on the evening.

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