Peter Benson published his first novel, The Levels, in 1987. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Author's Club First Novel Award, it announced the arrival of a unique and distinctive voice. His subsequent books established him as a writer who refuses to accept literary norms - none of his novels bears a thematic, generic or stylistic relationship to the others - but each is written in a cryptic, understated and elegiac style.

Peter Benson is the author of the novels The Levels (1987), A Lesser Dependency (1989), The Other Occupant (1990), Odo's Hanging (1993), Riptide (1994), A Private Moon (1995), The Shape of Clouds (1997), Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke (2011), Isabel's Skin (2012), The South in Winter (2017), The Stromness Dinner (2020) and Kidnap Fury of the Smoking Lovers (2022). In this Q&A with Danny Rhodes, Benson talks about his writing career, the craft of writing, and his wider artistic interests which include photography, painting and basket-making.

This is an in-venue event, taking place in the Lg16 lecture theatre, in Laud building.