On 6 November 2024
6:00pm
William Morris is one of the central figures in Olivia Laing’s latest bestsellling book, The Garden Against Time. In this discussion with Torin Douglas MBE, she will be exploring what gardens meant to Morris, both as real places of sanctuary and inspiration, and as an abiding metaphor for utopia, a model for creating a radical new society. Along the way, she will explore Morris’s socialism, the origins of his dreams of Eden, and the visionary nature of his environmentalism.
Olivia Laing is the author of seven books, including The Lonely City and Everybody: A Book About Freedom. In 2018, she was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction and in 2017, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her books have been translated into twenty-one languages. The Garden Against Time was a Sunday Times number one bestseller, and has been shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize and the Kirkus Prize.
