Speakers: Thomas L. Friedman, Ned Temko

Jewish Book Week presents a live interview with Thomas L Friedman, to celebrate the launch of his latest book, Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, a field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observers. In his most ambitious work to date, Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration – and explains how to live in it. Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Thomas L Friedman is the author of six bestselling books, including From Beirut to Jerusalem and The World is Flat: the Globalised World in the 21st Century which sold half a million copies worldwide. Ned Temko was editor of the Jewish Chronicle from 1990-2005 before leaving to become Chief Political Correspondent of The Observer