In the latest dispatch from A Room for London – a hotel installation in the shape of the boat in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness – we hear from the Pakistanti novelist Kamila Shamsie.
As part of a year-long project by Artangel, a writer is invited to stay in the boat, which is moored on top of London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, for four days every month - tasked only with writing about rivers, London or the legacy of Joseph Conrad. For Shamsie, the task throws up questions about the invisibility of women in the annals of exploration, even as they dominate travel writing.
During the year we are also live-streaming a series of concerts from A Room for London; take a look at what's been going on here.
