Philippe Sands in conversation with Nick Harkaway at Waterstones Piccadilly

We are delighted to welcome Philippe Sands to Waterstones Piccadilly to discuss 38 Londres Street, a captivating blend of memoir, travelogue, detective story, and courtroom drama. The award-winning author of East West Street and The Last Colony chronicles the entwining stories of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and senior SS officer Walther Rauff in a powerful examination of historical atrocities and the search for justice.

Philippe Sands is Professor of Public Understanding of Law at UCL, visiting professor at Harvard Law School and a practising barrister at 11 KBW. He has been involved in many significant international cases in recent years, including Pinochet, Congo, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq, Guantanamo, Chagos and the Rohingya. He is the author of Lawless World, Torture Team, East West Street (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction) and Sunday Times bestsellers The Ratline and The Last Colony. He has served as President of English PEN and is a member of the board of the Hay Festival.

Nick Harkaway is the author of eight novels. Harkaway's real name is Nicholas Cornwell and he is the fourth son of the David Cornwell (who wrote as John le Carré) and his second wife Jane Cornwell. In 2021, after the death of John le Carré, Harkaway took the writer's role in bringing the final unpublished le Carré novel, Silverview, to publication. He said then that the point of the exercise was that he be as invisible as possible. In 2022 he was called upon to do the final work on A Private Spy, the collected edition of his father's letters, after his older brother Tim Cornwell, who was editing the work, sadly died. He lives in London with Clare and their two children, and a very needy dog.

Please note: Book and ticket option includes a copy of 38 Londres Street (RRP. £25) available for collection on the night.

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