Nick Cave Book Signing

Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome legendary musician NICK CAVE for a signing of his new memoir Faith, Hope and Carnage. The signing will take place beginning at 12:00pm on Wednesday, October 11 and will end at 1:30pm. People who have registered should arrive between 11:45am, when doors to the signing line open, and 1:00pm to ensure their spot in line. Please read the following ticket and signing guidelines below.

Tickets to this event are sold out. There is no waitlist or standby line for this event. 

Tickets and Book Pickup

• Tickets are required to join the signing line. Each ticket admin one (1 ) person and includes one (1) paperback copy of Faith, Hope and Carnage.
• Tickets are limited to 100 people. Once tickets are sold out, there will be no waitlist or stand-by line.
• Tickets are non-refundable and non-returnable.
• Additional copies of Faith, Hope and Carnage will be available for purchase at the bookstore.
• Books included with ticket purchase can be picked up the afternoon of the signing, but not before.

Timeline

• The signing will begin at 12:00pm on Wednesday, October 11, 2023.
• Doors will open to the signing line at 11:45am. Harvard Book Store event staff will instruct attendees where to line up. Please do not arrive before 11:45am.
• Ticket holders will receive their books at check-in.
• The signing will end at 1:30pm. Folks who have registered should arrive between 11:45am, when doors to the signing line open, and 1:00pm to ensure their spot in line.
• Ticket holders should expect that there will be some wait-time to get their books personalized when they arrive.

Signing Line Guidelines

• This signing is specifically for paperback release of Faith, Hope and Carnage.
• Nick Cave will only personalize copies of his new book.
• Nick Cave will NOT be taking photos with ticketholders.

About Faith, Hope and Carnage

A Telegraph Best Book of 2022

Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life.

Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity.

The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly on Cave’s life, from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work ethic and his dramatic transformation in recent years.

Faith, Hope and Carnage offers ladders of hope and inspiration from a true visionary. 

Praise for Faith, Hope and Carnage

"In 2022, these intimate, revelatory conversations were neatly packaged into one thoughtful, moving memoir, Faith, Hope, and Carnage, in which Cave invites you into his innermost world – from his struggles with addiction to his explosive relationship with the Bad Seeds, through to grief and growth." —Brit Dawson, GQ (UK)

“[An] extraordinary, intensely personal book . . . Through O’Hagan’s sensitive questioning, Faith, Hope and Carnage is one of the most powerful and affecting meditations on grief and loss published in recent years.” —James Cook, ArtReview (UK)

“The soft-spoken, knowing voice of a wise man whose youthful excesses inevitably led him to a quiet life of meditation and art . . .There is a fly-on-the-wall sense that when Cave speaks, he has a particular audience in mind: the silently grieving.”— Lauretta Charlton, The New York Times Book Review

Mask Policy

Face masks are encouraged but not required.