Saturday 5th October – 3.30pm – Library Upstairs

Gavin Francis’s fascination with the human body and Antarctica has been expressed in award winning Adventures in Human Being, Empire Antarctica and Shapeshifters.  He contributes to London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books among others.

Chair: Professor John Gillies

Tickets for all Portobello Book Festival events are free and can be picked up from Portobello Library in Rosefield Avenue.