Albert Sánchéz Piñol

Catalan anthropologist Albert Sánchez Piñol is a specialist in the African Mbuti (pygmy) people, as well as an excellent writer. His worldwide break-through novel was Cold Skin, which tells the story of the battle two Europeans, one a lighthouse guard, the other a meteorologist, fight against an attacking force of giant frogs. Comparisons were drawn immediately to Joseph Conrad and Howard Phillips Lovecraft - not authors we would particularly mind being compared to.

At Crossing Border, Piñol will be discussing his latest novel Vae Victus. This is the seques of his bestselling novel Victus.