Cultur Vultur / Books & Ideas
Discover author talks, book launches and conversations worth getting out for, across London.
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Elif Shafak will be at Hatchards in St Pancras Station to sign her latest book In One Brief Moment All Eternity.
This event is part of the free Lunchtime Lecture series. No booking is required.
Join us for our Crime Book Club at Waterstones Piccadilly on the third Thursday of every month. Chat with our booksellers about the best Crime & Thriller has to offer, both old and new.
Want to be able to tell your Homer from your Hugo, your Austen from your Aeschylus? Waterstones Gower St invites you to pick up the classics (and the Classics!) you've always been too intimidated to try.
Yap! follows in the pawprints of the breeds we have grown to love and cherish, from the small dogs memorialised in Ancient Rome, to the pug who colonised Napoleon’s marital bed, to the toy spaniels who never left the side of King Charles II and canine stars like Billy and Tiny the Wonder who drew crowds to Victorian taprooms and taverns. Through this endearing account we are brought all the way up to Y2K fashion trends popularised by Paris Hilton and her chihuahua, Tinkerbell, and the pet influencers of the 21st-century.
Join Sebastian Faulks to discuss his latest novel Farewell to Eden.
We’re very excited to welcome Jasper Fforde to Waterstones Piccadilly as we celebrate the publication of Dark Reading Matter, the final entry in the Thursday Next series.
The Future of Free Speech confronts a stark truth: the right to speak freely is under siege.
Join us for an evening of superstitions, spirits and more as we welcome authors Jake Arnott, Heather Davey, Melinda Salisbury and Vanessa Santos to this folk horror panel! Come along as we explore chilling tales and horrors passed down from times long forgotten.
Join us at Waterstones Chiswick for our October bookclub where we will be reading Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.
Please join Simon Franklin for a conversation with Ekaterina Schulmann about his new book Troublesome Words: A Cultural History of Russian (Reaktion, August 2026).
Sohn Won-Pyung visits Foyles to discuss her books Almond and Counterattacks at Thirty with Ella Lee
Join us for a special event with David Szalay to discuss his Booker Prize wining novel FLESH with Oactavia Bright
The Club That Created The 80’s
How did early modern people make festivals, and why did they take such enormous care in the production of seemingly ephemeral events? Elaine Tierney’s new book, Celebrating the City: Making festivals in early modern London and Paris, explores these questions by taking readers behind the scenes of urban festivities. Where other studies unpick the courtly, literary and iconographical contexts for festivals, this book foregrounds the processes of designing, making and organising by which the events were produced. This shift in focus reveals that urban festival politics cannot be understood without attention to the nitty-gritty of these material worlds. In making this case, the book combines the tools of design history and the concerns of political history to shed new light on how people, from royal officeholders to anonymous faces in the crowd, used festivals to participate politically in late seventeenth-century Europe’s two most populous cities. This event celebrates the book’s publication. After a short welcome and introduction from the author, two respondents highlight the volume’s key contributions to histories of festivals, political culture and urban life.
Join us for a very special publication day event with one our most beloved storytellers, the global bestselling novelist Elif Shafak at London’s Emmanuel Centre, as we celebrate the publication of In One Brief Moment All Eternity.
Artists Maggi Hambling, Bharti Kher and Linder Sterling discuss the gallery’s bold, storied history
Historian A.N. Wilson takes us on a journey into the heart of the progressive Victorian dream, and where it has left us today.
From the forthcoming changes to pensions to understanding how Inheritance Tax could affect you, bring your questions to ask our solicitor panel.
We’re delighted to host an evening to celebrate The Discworld Bestiary with illustrator Paul Kidby & Rob Wilkins, director of the Terry Pratchett estate.
The Somali Week Festival launch returns to the British Library.
Bitingly original, wildly funny, wickedly sharp: the author discusses her novel with Pandora Sykes
Director-General of CERN, Mark Thomson, explores what's next for the world-leading research facility, and how decades of research have got us to this point.
Join us for an evening of musical and cultural self-examination as Afrobeats artist Fuse ODG explores the social impact of Fela Kuti’s work and how it has inspired his own T.I.N.A (This Is New Africa) movement today.
