Bart van Es for True Fire: Saint Augustine in Our Age of Crisis

Author Bart van Es discusses his biography True Fire, a portrait of Saint Augustine, at Topping & Company Booksellers in York.

Bart van Es, Oxford professor of English literature and Costa Award-winning author of The Cut Out Girl, discusses his biography True Fire, a life of Saint Augustine. The book follows Augustine through the four places that shaped him — Milan, Cassiciacum, Ostia and Hippo — and connects his ideas on time, language, the self and Original Sin to modern crises such as climate change, mass migration and viral media. The event takes place at Topping & Company Booksellers in York, with doors opening at 6.30pm ahead of the 7pm start.