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21st February 2022 ‘Under the Covers’ – Tim Finch in conversation with Ella Berthoud at House of St Barnabas, London
“Under the Covers” – Tim Finch in conversation with Ella Berthoud,
Monday 21 Feb 2022 06.30pm to 08.00pm The House of St Barnabas, 1 Greek St, London, W1D 4NQ
Tim will be talking about his Costa Book Awards shortlisted novel, Peace Talks, and other aspects of his life as a writer with author and bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud.
Tickets available via this link
Peace Talks chosen as one of the Big Issue’s books of 2020
December 2020
Big Issue’s seasonal edition recommended books to be given as gifts.
The magazine’s books editor Jane Graham laid out her best books of the year.
See the full list, with short reviews, here
Peace Talks shortlisted for Costa Book Awards 2020
November 2020
Peace Talks was announced as one of four books on the shortlist for Best Novel in the prestigious Costa Book Awards 2020. The announcement was made live on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row programme. Listen.
Details of all the books nominated in this category and the other four categories can be found here.
Previous winners and nominees for the Costa Book Novel Award (formerly the Whitbread Prize) include Salman Rushdie, Ali Smith, William Trevor, Sally Rooney and Evie Wyld.
The news of the 2020 nominees was covered in the Guardian.
Peace Talks is named one of Apple’s October 2020 Books of the month
October 2020
Apple Books has named as one of its books of the month.
Peace Talks at the Also Festival
August 2020
Tim Finch will be speaking at the Also Festival which takes place on 28th-30th August at Park Farm, Compton Verney, Warwickshire. He will be discussing Peace Talks and wider questions of how literature approaches the world’s problems.
Tickets for the festival can be found here
Peace Talks
Aug 2020
Peace Talks was reviewed in the Australian edition of the magazine The Spectator. The reviewer described the novel as a “by more than a mile the best book I have read during the pandemic… This could be the best novel written in English so far this century.” Read the full review here
Peace Talks
July 2020
The US edition of Peace Talks was reviewed by the influential Kirkus Reviews website ahead of its publication in October. The reviewer described the novel as a “lucid work carefully balanced between the terrors and consolations that fiction can provide.” Read the full review here
Peace Talks
June 2020
Tim Finch contributed a short essay – On the Resurrection – to Imagine, a compilation of non-fiction, flash fiction, poetry and essays written by writers such as Mohsin Hamid, Edmund de Waal, Dina Nayeri and Rupi Kaur. It was published on 20th June, 2020 – World Refugee Day – as part of Refugee Week. The e-book can be read here and Tim can be heard reading his essay as part of a Damian Barr Literary Salon podcast.
Peace Talks
June 2020
On June 5th, 2020 Tim Finch discussed Peace Talks in a podcast with Red Szell as part of the RNIB’s Audiobook show. The interview can be heard here
Peace Talks
May 2020
Peace Talks was reviewed in the Sunday Times on 31st May, 2020. It was described as a ‘tender and elegant portrait’.
Peace Talks
May 2020
Peace Talks was the Book of the Day in the Guardian on 23rd May, 2020. It was described as ‘a moving and direct study of frailty, love and time, and luck and grief,’. It was compared to novels by Julian Barnes and James Salter. Read the full review here
Peace Talks
May 2020
Peace Talks was reviewed in the Big Issue on 15th May, 2020. It was described as ‘insightful, emotionally resonant and unexpectedly poetic’. Read the full review here
Peace Talks
May 2020
Peace Talks was reviewed in the Camden New Journal on 15th May, 2020. It was described as ‘ a poignant read, full of emotional truth with some unexpected humour along the way.’ Read the full review here
Peace Talks
May 2020
Peace Talks was reviewed in the Spectator on 9th May, 2020. It was described as ‘affecting’, ‘hypnotic’ and ‘masterfully rendered’. Read the full review here
Peace Talks
April 2020
Peace Talks was reviewed in the Daily Mail on 23rd April, 2020. It was described as ‘a smart tale, slyly engineered’. Read the full review here
Peace Talks
April 2020
Peace Talks was reviewed in the Observer on April 20th, 2020. It was described by the reviewer as ‘elegant and wintry’ with ‘something of the feel of early Kazuo Ishiguro’. Read the full review here
Peace Talks
April 2020
Peace Talks was published at an audio book, narrated by the distinguished actor Richard Trinder. You can find it here
Peace Talks
April 2020
Tim’s second novel, Peace Talks, was published on 16th April 2020 at the height of the Covid 19 crisis in the UK. All launch and promotional events were cancelled. But Tim enjoyed launch day in his garden with a small celebration!
