Damian Barr’s Literary Salon

Hosted ByDamian Barr

Damian Barr's Literary Salon tempts the world's best writers to read exclusively from their latest greatest works and share their own personal stories. Star guests include: Jojo Moyes, John Waters, Yaa Gyasi, Mary Beard, Diana Athill and Louis de Bernières - all in front of a live audience at leading glamorous locations world-wide. Our London home is the Savoy. Suave Salonnière Damian Barr is your host.

Produced by Megan Bay Dorman and Russell Finch.


All Episodes

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Dolen Perkins-Valdez reads from ‘Take My Hand’

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Julie Owen Moylan reads from That Green Eyed Girl

Prepare for some sparkling literature that you need to read this summer. That Green Eyed Girl by Julie Owen Moylan has everything we love in a book: a character-driven...

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Patrick McCabe reads from ‘Poguemahone’

Enjoy an entertaining extract from twice Booker-shortlisted author Patrick McCabe

Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart in conversation with Damian Barr, at the Literary Salon April 2022

EXTRA SPECIAL EPISODE ALERT! Enjoy this full-length Literary Salon with Douglas Stuart, hot-off-the-press! Last week we held a very special evening with Douglas in conversation with Damian at an...

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Adriana Trigiani reads from ‘The Good Left Undone’

A sun-drenched mid-century novel from the international bestselling author

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Joanna Cannon reads from ‘A Tidy Ending’

If you love a whodunnit then we’ve got just the thing to satisfy that craving. A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon is a novel about Linda, an ordinary middle-aged...

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Yasmin Cordery Khan reads from ‘Edgware Road’

You may have noticed the rise in popularity of compelling novels written across dual timelines. We say: the more the merrier! This week we’re spotlighting one such novel, Edgware...

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Maggie Gee reads from ‘The Red Children’

In times of need we turn to literature. Maggie’s Gee’s timely modern fable The Red Children is our featured title this week, and just the tonic we all need...

SALON EXCLUSIVE: Maddie Mortimer reads from ‘Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies’

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