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Discover author talks, book launches and conversations worth getting out for, across London.
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Join designer and artist Roland Mouret for a discussion of his life and career, from the family boucherie to creating legendary fashions
Are you a big book nerd? Do you live vicariously through fearless, fantastic and insane heroines and heroes? Do you just really want a drink at the end of a long work week? Well then come and join us for our monthly book quiz!
Our friends over at Avery Hill Publishing have got some many excited releases on the horizon! We're thrilled to celebrate a double launch party celebrating two of their latest books on Thursday 29th October 2026, from 7-9pm. We'll be welcoming Kristyna Baczynski who will be releasing Another Realm…
Legendary screenwriter Andrew Davies joins bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud
The Alienation Effect begins with Owen Hatherley as 'Eye Casualty', and his re-emergence from the Eye Department of St Thomas Hospital – coiled, nervy, squinting – taking in, with fractured vision, Naum Gabo's kinetic sculpture Revolving Torsion. This revolutionary 400 tons of twisted metal [outside St Thomas’s] initiated Hatherley’s literary jaunt through the 1930s of Central European émigrés, bolters, refugees, displaced eggheads, escapees from the Nazis, and Thule Society cranks.
Geoff Dyer and Lisa Appignanesi join Tom Overton, author of new biography John Berger: From Life, and to discuss Berger's titan role in culture then and now
Sechel and Sensibility draws on a remarkable tradition of humour, scholarship and imagination, and sets it loose for one evening in the heart of London's academic quarter.
Join us when we welcome Jack Parlett to read from and discuss his new book FLAMBOYANCE: THE ART OF BURNING BRIGHTLY with Amelia Abraham
Author, activist and performer Lemn Sissay unravels his poems in a night filled with hope and light
A master of words shares poetry, stories, and creativity for an unexpected evening.
Enter an extraordinary world in a multi-art form event. In association with Service95 Book Club
Join cartoonist Phil Corbett for a dead-funny, hands‑on comic‑making workshop inspired by his brand‑new graphic novel series, Ghost and Toast!
Find your next read at this year’s award showcase of under-represented writers
Join us for an very special evening with best-selling author Garth Nix as he takes to the stars in his first ever adult sci-fi novel, Massif.
Drawing on a previously untapped archive of one of the Society for Psychical Research's most prolific investigators, Chasing the Dark is the compelling story of our relationship with the supernatural. What do these atmospheric and often chilling cases teach us about who we are, and the anxieties that consume us? And why do the dead still find ways to make themselves known?
Taking The Aural Sea, the 2026 exhibition at the Uzbekistan National Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, and Zulfiya Spowart’s presented work Beshik (The Cradle) as a starting point, this conversation will explore Spowart’s experience and practice as a participating artist – the exhibitions, conversations and knowledge systems which shaped her work.
What can horror teach us about morality? Join us at Conway Hall for a screening of Robert Wiene’s landmark German horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) for a deep dive into why horror continues to complicate our understanding of good and evil.
Join us for an exciting evening as we celebrate the paperback release of fantasy thriller Queen Of Faces by Petra Lord and gothic romantasy Reap and Sow by Charlotte B. Plumb.
Join us for an unforgettable evening with bestselling author Bonnie Garmus in conversation with Clare Chambers as we celebrate the release of her incredible new novel Peck & Peck.
Join us for a hugely exciting evening with Ana Huang and Fee Mak, in celebration of 'The Keeper', the third book in the God of Games series.
Join the Lambeth LGBTQ+ book group to discuss The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor.
Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu brings together the everyday chemistry in our lives with the latest nanotechnology delivering drugs in our bodies.
Literary legends offer a joyful refutation of the myth that serious literature must be solemn
A stellar line-up of writers makes fiction feel alive, discussing rhythm, form and sound in writing
The British Library's annual encounter with strange, uncanny and chilling fiction.
