Guardian Live: Kazuo Ishiguro

Please note that the venue has changed from Cadogan Hall to The Royal Institution.

In March 2015 acclaimed novelist Kazuo Ishiguro will publish his first novel in ten years, The Buried Giant. Join him for a special Guardian Live event at The Royal Institution, London. He will be in conversation with Books editor, Claire Armitstead.

The Buried Giant is set in a mythical post-Roman England where memories of Arthur are fading and Britons and Saxons live in uneasy peace. It opens with a couple - Axl and Beatrice - setting off across a troubled land of mist and rain in search of a son they have not seen in years, on the way encountering monsters, ogres, corrupt monks and an elderly knight. It’s a striking departure for the author of When We Were Orphans and A Pale View of Hills, and a moving story of lost memories, love, revenge and war.

Ishiguro has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize four times, winning in 1989 for The Remains of the Day, set between the wars in the English mansion Darlington Hall, and narrated by the ageing butler Stevens. His 2005 novel, Never Let Me Go, a dystopian tale of hope and mortality, sold over a million copies. Both novels have been adapted for the big screen, the first starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins, and the latter with Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield.