Geoff Dyer's new book explores last things, changes wrought by time and Roger Federer

English writer Geoff Dyer’s career has always blended biography, fiction, memoir and journalism. He discussed with Donal O’Keeffe his new book, The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings, which is about “last things, and coming to the end of the day, and the changes wrought by time”

Geoff Dyer

When Geoff Dyer calls on an American number, I expect he’ll be in Venice, Los Angeles, his home these many years, but instead he’s in “a rather nice cafe in Copenhagen”, on a sunny morning.

After years of “being just driven insane by bad weather”, the Cheltenham native feels California’s “abundant sunshine” has mellowed him. “It is one of the few ways in which I do seem to have achieved a measure a relaxation, even enlightenment, in later life,” he says.