MEET THE BÀRD: Ben Pester + Keith Ridgway
Tue, Jun 23
|Bàrd Books
In conversation with Barry Pierce
Time & Location
Jun 23, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Bàrd Books, 341-343 Roman Rd, Bow, London E3 5QR, UK
About the event
Doors 630pm, event start 7pm
BEN PESTER is the author of the short story collection Am I in the Right Place? (2021) and the novel The Expansion Project (2025), which was shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards and the Goldsmiths Prize.
"Pester is a genius of capturing the vicissitudes of contemporary life" LUKE KENNARD
Sail Away Land is the space where we might go when we’re no longer alive (sometimes only temporarily). In this uncommon and disarming collection, the characters go ‘there’ with or without knowing it. Maybe they have been living there all along without noticing – just like they hadn’t really noticed that everyone is carrying a shiny black suitcase.
These stories are about normal things – losing the people we’re closest to, forgiving them, finding love and managing to hold onto it – but also about going to parties through a door in the back of a colleague’s head, housebreaking in search of…
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