Scottish novelist and non-fiction author Andrew O’Hagan comes to Bridport Electric Palace on Sunday 2 November where he will be in conversation with Nic Jeune, an award-winning film producer, first assistant director, senior lecturer and actor who founded Bridport film festival From Page to Screen

Three of O’Hagan’s novels have been nominated for the Booker Prize and he has won several awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

His essays and reports have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, Granta, The Guardian and The New Yorker.

His latest foray into non-fiction, On Friendship, formed part of a week of essays on Radio 4, to which you can still listen until the end of the month here: bbc.co.uk

In five episodes read by the author, he turns his clear eye on human relationships, examining friendship from every angle.

He opens with childhood friendships against a background of endless summer days, moving to the tragic accident at the heart of a Bob Dylan cover.

On Friendship will form the heart of his appearance at BridLit.

The bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road brings us a heart-enriching celebration of what makes us great: our friends.

In our lives, our friendships are rich and varied and shared with those with two legs or four legs. They come dressed in the simplicity of childhood or the professional attire of adult life – either spanning decades or only fleeting.

In these gorgeous personal reflections, O’Hagan explores friendship though music and poetry, memory and history, illuminating the many ways and reasons that people come together, and how our lives are all the better because we do.

Tickets available online here: electricpalace.org.uk or from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, 01308 424901.