BookBar Presents... Emma Cline and Samantha Harvey

Emma Cline's Booker Prize Longlisted novel Switzy is a mesmerising novel about an ageing man’s last pilgrimage, and it has captured the hearts of our BookBar booksellers. Author Emma Cline joins us at BookBar Chelsea to talk more about the protagonist, David, and the process of writing the novel, in what promises to be a humorous and moving discussion about life and literature.

Emma will be joined in conversation with Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey. Join us on Tuesday 22nd September 2026 at BookBar Chelsea.

The bar will open at 6:30pm with the conversation starting at 7:00pm.

About Switzy

A private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over Greenland. David, a retired executive, sits back in his leather seat, playing solitaire on his phone. Click. Click. Drag. Click. The notebook in his jacket pocket is filled with familiar phrases, urgent reminders to himself, but he struggles to recognise his…