The Center for Fiction Presents Andrew O'Hagen on Caledonian Road with Megan Nolan

Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT June 26, 2024

The Center for Fiction
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Andrew O’Hagen, the esteemed author of Mayflies and The Secret Life and a three-time nominee for the Booker Prize, joins The Center for Fiction to discuss his sensational new novel Caledonian Road. It follows Campbell Flynn, a professor and art historian coming off of the success of his biography of Vermeer. As Campbell becomes entangled with one of his students, he goes down a dark path that culminates in an exposing incident on London’s Caledonian Road. Named one of the Globe and Mail’s most anticipated books of 2024, the novel explores the British aristocracy, academia, and politics through this story of five interconnected families and their fortunes. Megan Nolan, award-winning author of Ordinary Human Failings, joins O’Hagen for a conversation on his new novel and its satirical critique of British high society. After the conversation, O’Hagen will sign books.

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In Conversation

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    Andrew O’Hagan

    Andrew O’Hagan

    Andrew O’Hagan, a Scottish novelist and essayist, is a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, a three-time nominee for the Booker Prize, the editor-at-large of the London Review of Books, and a contributor to the New Yorker. He lives in London.


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    Megan Nolan

    Megan Nolan

    Megan Nolan was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland and is currently based in New York. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was published in 2021 and was the recipient of a Betty Trask Award, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second novel, Ordinary Human Failings, was shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Awards for fiction as well as for the Gordon Burn Prize and is longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize.


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Featured Book

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    Caledonian Road

    By Andrew O'Hagan

    Published by W. W. Norton & Company

    PURCHASE

    He’s never taken other people half as seriously as they take themselves, which is the first of his mistakes. The second is a new project: opportunistic and precisely calibrated to rake in a fortune. Riding on the high of a best-selling biography of Vermeer and fielding more inquiries and requests than he has the time or patience to pursue, Campbell has nevertheless still not managed to shake the question of money. The fact of his quiet loan from a school friend now embroiled in scandal makes the ever-present worry feel even more pressing. His unflappable agent, Atticus; his steadfast wife, Elizabeth; his sister, Moira, crusading parliamentarian for the poor; his well-adjusted, well-off adult children, Angus and Kenzie; and all the outward trappings of success can’t conceal that something in his life is off.

    As Campbell becomes increasingly entangled with a brilliant student, convention-smashing and working class, like he used to be, he feels he’s been given a second chance to embrace the change that frightens him, even as he sees trouble brewing for his family and friends. Campbell’s personal quest takes him down darker roads than he could have imagined, and all his worlds—the art scene and academia, fashion and the English aristocracy, journalism and the internet—collide in spectacular fashion, culminating in one shocking night on Caledonian Road.

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