Join Neil Jordan, director of Interview with the Vampire and The Butcher Boy, to discuss his literary sci-fi novel, The Library of Traumatic Memory, in conversation with Marie-Louise Kerr. 

In the year 2084, Christian Cartwright, a librarian at the enigmatic Huxley Institute, spends his days archiving the world's most painful memories – but when his lover dies, he secretly resurrects her as a digital consciousness. 

As Christian navigates a world where memories can be edited, dreams harvested, and the dead made to speak, he uncovers a deeper conspiracy buried in the Institute's foundations. 

Meet the writer

Neil Jordan is an Irish film director, screenwriter and author based in Dublin. His first book, Night in Tunisia, won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. He is also a former winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Irish PEN Award, and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Jordan's films include Angel, the Academy Award-winning The Crying Game, Michael Collins and The Butcher Boy.