Acclaimed author to speak at Â鶹´«Ã½ Published on: 3 November 2016 Deborah Levy is heading to Â鶹´«Ã½ to discuss her Booker Prize shortlisted novel Swimming Home. Â鶹´«Ã½'s biggest book club The event is part of the One Book Project, an initiative run by the Booker Prize Foundation. It is the sixth year that Â鶹´«Ã½ has been involved with the project, which encourages students at universities across the UK to engage with the very best of contemporary literary fiction. Regardless of their chosen field of study, students at universities taking part in the One Book Project are given a winning or shortlisted Man Booker Prize novel to read and discuss, followed by a visit from the author to the institution to talk about the book. Deborah Levy Best modern literary fiction Professor Linda Anderson, Director of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Centre for Literary Arts said: “This is the seventh time we have held the One Booker Project and in that time, thousands of our students have had the opportunity to enjoy some of the best modern literary fiction for free. “Swimming Home is a wonderful, unsettling novel about the effects of depression. I can’t wait to hear what Deborah Levy has to say.” Swimming Home was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012. The story takes place over a single week at a villa in the French Riviera. It is about the experiences of poet Joe Jacobs, when his family vacation is interrupted by a fanatical reader. In Conversation Deborah Levy will be in conversation with William Fiennes from 7.15pm on 10 November in the King’ s Hall of Â鶹´«Ã½’s Armstrong Building. The event is free to attend for Â鶹´«Ã½ students as part of the Booker Prize Foundation’s One Book Project. Members of the public can buy tickets and students can reserve tickets here Tickets cost £6 (£4 concessions). Join in the conversation, and enter the competition to win book tokens @ and . Share: Latest News Volunteers help turn Whitley Bay beach into maths experiment Members of the public joined mathematicians from Â鶹´«Ã½ to create what organisers believe is the largest aperiodic tiling ever attempted on Whitley Bay beach. published on: 15 June 2026 Student leader drives misogyny law change A Â鶹´«Ã½ student leader has helped change the law after creating a petition to make misogyny a hate crime, which gathered over 114,000 signatures, prompting action in Parliament. published on: 12 June 2026 Freemen of Â鶹´«Ã½ see construction of new Castle Leazes The Freemen of Â鶹´«Ã½ and other key stakeholders have become an indelible part of new student accommodation at Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Castle Leazes. published on: 12 June 2026 Facts and figures
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