London Book And Poetry Events: 21-27 November
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Wednesday 21 November: Simon Garfield turns his attention from fonts to maps at Daunt Books Marylebone (7pm, £8). The people who...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 28 November-4 December
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Wednesday 28 November: Roddy Doyle, AL Kennedy, Adam O’Riordan and host Alex Clark record the Vintage Podcast at the Queen’s Head...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 5-11 December
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Wednesday 5 December: Michael Morpurgo talks about his life, work and new autobiographical short story at the National Theatre...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 12-19 December
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Wednesday 12 December: Waterstones Covent Garden is having a meet-the-author night, with Simon Garfield, Russell Norman, The Gentle...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 2-8 January
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Wednesday 2 January: Philip Pullman talks about his version of Grimm’s fairy tales at the National Theatre (6pm, £4 / £3). Friday 4...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 9-15 January
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Wednesday 9 January: Jonathan Fenby talks about China past and present at Foyles (6.15pm, free). Hear poets Claire Crowther,...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 16-22 January
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Wednesday 16 January: Andrew Kaufman, author of The Tiny Wife and the superlative All My Friends are Superheroes, is at Waterstones...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 23-29 January
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Wednesday 23 January: Nii Parkes, Maria Jastrzebska and Sofia Buchuck talk about what happens to poetry when the poet migrates, at...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 30 January-5 February
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Wednesday 30 January: John Burnside and The Wilderness author Samantha Harvey help launch the latest issue of Granta at Foyles...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 6-12 February
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Wednesday 6 February: Lucy Hughes-Hallett talks about The Pike, the story of poet, seducer and proto-Fascist Gabriele D’Annunzio,...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 13-19 February
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Wednesday 13 February: There might be a few tickets left for Stephen Grosz and Andrew Solomon talking with Cressida Connolly at...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 20-26 February
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Wednesday 20 February: Jami Attenberg and Melissa Harrison will read from novels The Middlesteins and Clay at Bookseller Crow on...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 27 February-6 March
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Wednesday 27 February: English PEN launches its Prison Writing pamphlet at the Free Word Centre, with Mark Haddon (7pm, £6). Jewish...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 7-13 March
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Thursday 7 March: It’s World Book Day! Find out what’s happening near you with the World Book Day website. Courttia Newland reads...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 14-20 March
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Thursday 14 March: It’s actually a bit embarrassing how much Londonist’s Books ed loves A.L. Kennedy. Find out why at the London...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 21-27 March
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Thursday 21 March: Three of Russia’s best contemporary writers – Andrei Makine, Mikhail Shishkin and Irina Prokhorova – talk about...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 28 March-3 April
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this Easter week Thursday 28 March: Joe Dunthorne, Luke Wright and Josie Long are at excellent comedy purveyors Invisible Dot for a crossover...
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 4-10 April
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this Easter week Thursday 4 April: Mohsin Hamid, Ross Sutherland, Charlie Dark, Riz MC and Nadine Shah are at Book Slam (7.30pm, £6 / £8)....
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 11-17 April
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Thursday 11 April: Comedian Robert Newman is at Waterstones Islington for the launch of his new novel The Trade Secret (8pm)....
View ArticleLondon Book And Poetry Events: 18-24 April
Author appearances, poetry and spoken word events in London this week Thursday 18 April: Mark Haddon and playwright Simon Stephens discuss The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time on page and...
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