Because all your senses are addressed, reading Colette is like having a feast…

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award winning books, translated into 15 languages, include Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings, and, most recently, The American Future: A History. His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the Guardian and the Financial Times where he is Contributing Editor. He has written and presented forty films for BBC2 on subjects a diverse as Tolstoy, American politics and John Donne and won an Emmy for The Power of Art.

Boyd Tonkin, Literary Editor of The Independent, chaired the talk.

In English.