Dolly Alderton Reads from Her Novel, Ghosts

Damian Barr’s Literary Salon tempts the world’s best writers to read exclusively from their latest greatest works and share their own personal stories. Star guests include Jojo Moyes, John Waters, Yaa Gyasi, Mary Beard, Diana Athill and Louis de Bernières—all in front of a live audience at leading glamorous locations world-wide. Our London home is the Savoy. Suave Salonnière Damian Barr is your host.

In this Salon, Dolly Alderton, the brilliant journalist, co-host of the High Low podcast, and award-winning author of hit memoir Everything I Know About Love joins Damian to share her debut novel Ghosts. We go deep on love, laughter, loss, sex scenes, identity, and more, and enjoy some brilliant advice from Dolly, including how to make it in journalism and what she’d say to her 21-year-old self. Not to be missed!

***

You can now watch full Salon interviews, including the Q&A, with Salon On Demand! Don’t worry if you missed the Salon live, as individual online Salons can now be yours forever for the price of a drink! Your ticket will give you access to a special private YouTube film of the event. Now you can pause mid-thought to put the kettle on or fix yourself another cocktail. For just £5/$6.50 you can watch anywhere, anytime and access it as many times as you like.

To listen to the whole archive of Damian Barr’s Literary Salon, subscribe and listen on iTunes or wherever else you find your favorite podcasts.

Dolly Alderton is an award-winning author and journalist. She is a columnist for The Sunday Times Style and has also written for GQ, Red, Marie Claire and Grazia. She co-hosts the weekly pop-culture and current affairs podcast The High Low alongside journalist Pandora Sykes. Her first book Everything I Know About Love became a top five Sunday Times bestseller in its first week of publication and won a National Book Award for Autobiography of the Year. Her first novel, Ghosts, was published by Fig Tree/Penguin in October 2020.