Kae Tempest: Having Spent Life Seeking
A celebration of the new novel, in performance and conversation.
Main Space
Thursday 27 November 10am General Public Booking
Tuesday 25 November 10am Advance Priority Booking for Champion, Icon and Legend members
Wednesday 26 November 10am Priority Booking for all members
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In celebration of the release of his forthcoming novel Having Spent Life Seeking, Sunday Times-bestselling wordsmith and Mercury Prize nominated-musician Kae Tempest welcomes you to a very special evening of performance and conversation at the Roundhouse.
Released on 23 April 2026 via Vintage, the heart-breaking, soul-building new novel centres around the transformative power of love. Rothko Taylor has washed up with the tide, back in their hometown, Edgecliff. Fifteen years since they left it behind.
A decade in the making, Having Spent Life Seeking is about family and forgiveness; redemption and atonement; desire and abandon; selfhood and community. The things we seek when we are hiding, and what finds us, if we can let ourselves be seen.
Every ticket includes a copy of Having Spent Life Seeking (RRP £18.99). Your book will be available to collect on the evening of the event.
This event is part of Roundhouse Three Sixty 2026. Stand by for our full festival programme landing in the new year. Sign up here to be the first in the know.