Czech Books – writers with Czech connections: from Dickens to Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg: “An immoral menace“

Anthony Kenny: An Oxford academic at the underground seminars

Ashutosh Bhardwaj: A tug-of-war between languages

David Howard: A Kiwi poet living with Uncle K. in a filing cabinet

David Whiteman: Telling the forgotten Czech story of the man who triggered WWI

Charles Dickens: An inspiration for the Good Soldier Švejk

Charles Heller: Memories of a nine-year-old soldier

Edith Pargeter aka Ellis Peters: From Shropshire to Prague

Edwin Muir: An Orcadian poet in Prague

George Eliot:  The Lifted Veil – a forgotten Prague story

James Meek: A peculiar tale of Czechs in Siberia

Jean Echenoz: A great Czech athlete inspires a best-selling French novelist

J.M. Ledgard: A tragic story of disappearing giraffes

John Banville: Kafka as an Irish writer

John Dee: Alchemy and wife-swapping in Renaissance Bohemia

John Millington Synge: An Irish classic at home in Prague

Liam Pieper: Scars of the Holocaust in Prague and Melbourne

Lucy Duggan: Exploring other Pragues

Mariusz Surosz: Czechs and Poles – nobody knows anything

Matthew Fitt: Scots fairy tales in deepest Bohemia

Natalia Matolinets: Lviv and Prague – a tale of two cities

Norman Davies: Wroclaw – a city with roots in Bohemia

Paul Wilson: Humour without jokes in 1970s Prague

Discussion with Paul Wilson at the Václav Havel Library

Peter Steiner: Water in the deserts of Bohemia

Richard Askwith: Author of two brilliant Czech sporting biographies – about Emil Zátopek and Lata Brandisová

Richard Fidler: Prague and an uncanny sense of oddness

Robert Fulghum: A tango for one in Prague

Roger Scruton: A very special relationship

Sarah Perry:  In search of a Bohemian gothic

Simon Mawer: The Glass Room

Stephen Weeks: Prague on the edge of a cliff

W.G. Sebald: Austerlitz – a brilliant novel of loss and seeking

Willa Cather: The Bohemians of the prairies