Tom McCarthy (2010 event)

In 2010, major new literary voice Tom McCarthy joined us in Edinburgh to launch his new book, C, in which McCarthy’s hero embarked on a strange, Pynchonesque journey across the 20th century, from a Bohemian spa and the First World War, to a climax in an Egyptian catacomb. Listen to McCarthy and chair Stuart Kelly in an audio recording of this remarkable event.

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