Join writer, historian and literary critic Ruth Scurr as she talks about her genre-defying account of a literary pioneer. John Aubrey’s Brief Lives redefined the art of biography, yet Aubrey’s own life was a personal and financial struggle to record the doings of great historical figures and the relics of antiquity before they vanished forever: the habits of Christopher Wren and Isaac Newton, the stones of Stonehenge and the stained glass of forgotten churches. Described by Hilary Mantel as ‘light, ingenious, inspiring, a book to reread and cherish,’ Ruth Scurr’s imaginative biography of Aubrey takes the form of a diary drawn from the man’s own words and is steeped in the atmospheres of the London taverns and English landscapes Aubrey helped to preserve.  Free, email events@anthonyburgess.org to book