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Jilted Generation with Ed Howker and Shiv Malik, SouthbankJilted Generation with Ed Howker and Shiv Malik, Southbank
September 3, 2013 @ 6:30 pm
Ed Howker and Shiv Malik discuss the Jilted Generation, the millions of young people in Britain who face an uncertain future. In the fifties, Britain was told we’d ‘never had it so good’. In the 1990s, ‘things’ could ‘only get better’. Today, things are actually getting worse. Why? Standards of living are falling for new [&hellip |
Hannah Kent in conversation with Sarah Moss, Daunt Bookshop, MaryleboneHannah Kent in conversation with Sarah Moss, Daunt Bookshop, Marylebone
September 4, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Daunt Books is delighted to introduce author Hannah Kent, who will be discussing her superb novel Burial Rites, the most talked about debut of the year. As haunting as it is beautiful, Burial Rites explores the true story of a young woman condemned to death for the murder of her lover in Iceland, 1829. Sarah [&hellip |
African Writers’ Evening: Point of Protest, SouthbankAfrican Writers’ Evening: Point of Protest, Southbank
September 5, 2013 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Writers discuss how point of view might be a point of protest in writing about Africa. Africa has been enveloped in centuries of externally imposed myth, often grand and romanticised with rarely any space for the voices of the mundane. The fact of any individual voice emerging, having its own humour, expressing awareness of its [&hellip Deborah Levy and Juan Pablo Villalobos, Keats HouseDeborah Levy and Juan Pablo Villalobos, Keats House
September 5, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” – Leo Tolstoy With razor-sharp humour and curiosity, celebrated authors Deborah Levy and Juan Pablo Villalobos explore the meaning of family and belonging. Deborah Levy’s novel Swimming Home was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012, and her latest collection of [&hellip |
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An Evening with Ruth Rendell at The Rose TheatreAn Evening with Ruth Rendell at The Rose Theatre
September 8, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Next year Ruth will celebrate her 50th anniversary as a published writer. This is a unique opportunity to hear Ruth Rendell talk about her long and successful career in writing wrongs, and to hear about her new Wexford novel No Man’s Nightingale. Ruth Rendell will be in conversation with Peter Kemp, Fiction Editor at The [&hellip |
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Eleanor Catton, SouthbankEleanor Catton, Southbank
September 10, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Eleanor Catton, prize-winning author of The Rehearsal, presents her definition-defying second novel, The Luminaries. Eleanor Catton, born in 1985, is the author of The Rehearsal, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, longlisted for the Orange Prize, winner of the Betty Trask Award and published in twelve languages. Tonight she presents her second [&hellip |
Multiples: Adam Thirlwell with Tash Aw, A.S. Byatt and Joe Dunthorne, LRBMultiples: Adam Thirlwell with Tash Aw, A.S. Byatt and Joe Dunthorne, LRB
September 11, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Is it possible that translation could be an optimistic art? In an effort to experiment with this possibility, the novelist Adam Thirlwell, on behalf of McSweeney’s Quarterly, invented an experiment: what would happen if a story were successively translated by a series of novelists, each one working only from the version immediately prior to their own [&hellip |
Samuel Beckett and Judaism, LJCCSamuel Beckett and Judaism, LJCC
September 12, 2013 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
For virtually all of his life Irish playwright Samuel Beckett was personally connected with the Jewish people. This presentation will explore those connections and highlight traces of a hidden Jewish context and wartime suffering in Waiting for Godot and other postwar works. More information/book tickets Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet with Harry EyresLife Lessons from an Ancient Poet with Harry Eyres
September 12, 2013 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The writer and journalist Harry Eyres brings you an evening of essential life advice from Horace, the ancient poet who coined the phrase ‘carpe diem’. He reveals how Horace can help us navigate our way through life, love and leisure. The humble son of a freed slave, Horace championed the saving grace of modest pleasures: poetry, leisure and wine. [&hellip |
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Why critics don’t take funny books seriously with John Crace and Lucy Mangan, LJCCWhy critics don’t take funny books seriously with John Crace and Lucy Mangan, LJCC
September 15, 2013 @ 11:30 am - 5:00 pm
Critics sometimes remark on the humour in novelists such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens as if it’s a quality of the writing the reader needs permission to enjoy. Meanwhile many other books that are hailed as comic masterpieces barely raise a smile. What makes humour the poor relation of so much literature? And is [&hellip Deborah and Lottie Moggach talk to John Crace, LJCCDeborah and Lottie Moggach talk to John Crace, LJCC
September 15, 2013 @ 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Deborah Moggach’s new book, Heartbreak Hotel (all reviews here) is a warm, wise and funny romp in the Welsh countryside, which will appeal to the legions of fans who enjoyed the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Lottie Moggach’s Kiss Me First (all reviews here) is a moving coming of age story hidden within a harrowing mystery. While Lottie explores a lot [&hellip Charlotte Mendelson talks to Claire Armitstead, LJCCCharlotte Mendelson talks to Claire Armitstead, LJCC
September 15, 2013 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Charlotte Mendelson has just been long listed for the Man Booker Prize for Almost English (all reviews here). She will be talking to Guardian Books and News Editor, Claire Armitstead. Charlotte Mendelson’s last novel, When We Were Bad, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as a book of the year in the Observer, Guardian, [&hellip |
Hunters in the Snow with Daisy Hildyard, LJCCHunters in the Snow with Daisy Hildyard, LJCC
September 16, 2013 @ 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
After his death, a young woman returns to her grandfather’s farm in Yorkshire. At his desk she finds the book he left unfinished when he died. Read all the reviews for Hunters in the Snow. Part story, part scholarship, his eccentric history of England moves from the founding of the printing press into virtual reality, linking [&hellip Fifty Shades of Feminism with Susie Orbach & Lisa Appignanesi, LJCCFifty Shades of Feminism with Susie Orbach & Lisa Appignanesi, LJCC
September 16, 2013 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Fifty Shades of Feminism is the antidote to the idea that being a woman is all about submitting to desire. Co- editors Susie Orbach and Lisa Appignanesi discuss their selection of fifty women for this inspiring new volume; young and old, writers, politicians, actors, scientists and mothers – their reflections on the shades that inspired [&hellip Andrew Wilson talks to Henry Kelly about Mad Girl’s Love Song, LJCCAndrew Wilson talks to Henry Kelly about Mad Girl’s Love Song, LJCC
September 16, 2013 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Fifty years after her death, Andrew Wilson explores the life of Sylvia Plath before her marriage to Ted Hughes, in an intimate portrait of the brilliant and tragic literary enigma based on her early poems, letters and diaries. Drawing on exclusive interviews with friends and lovers and using previously unavailable archives and papers, this is [&hellip |
Gill Hornby & Hilary Boyd talk to Lisa Jewell, LJCCGill Hornby & Hilary Boyd talk to Lisa Jewell, LJCC
September 17, 2013 @ 12:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Hilary Boyd’s first ‘gran lit’ novel, Thursdays In The Park, was published last year and has since sold over 400,000 copies in ebook and print. She has worked as a nurse, a marriage guidance counsellor and a health journalist and published six non-fiction books on health-related subjects such as step-parenting, depression and pregnancy. Gill Hornby is a writer and [&hellip Daisy Waugh talks to Rachel Hore, LJCCDaisy Waugh talks to Rachel Hore, LJCC
September 17, 2013 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Bestselling novelist Daisy Waugh discusses her new novel, Melting the Snow on Hester Street, with fellow novelist Rachel Hore. Bestselling writer Daisy Waugh discusses her new book with fellow novelist Rachel Hore. Set in Hollywood in 1929, Waugh’s Melting the Snow on Hester Street follows a high-society couple, an actor and actress, on the brink of bankruptcy and divorce. [&hellip John Harvey and Stella Duffy, chaired by Alison Joseph, Chair of the CWA, LJCCJohn Harvey and Stella Duffy, chaired by Alison Joseph, Chair of the CWA, LJCC
September 17, 2013 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Members of the Crime Writers’ Association, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, talk about their love of short crime fiction – is the short story’s resurgence really such a mystery? This is part of the Highgate & Hampstead Literary Festival. More information/book tickets |
Book launch for Our Hearts Hang From the Lemon Trees by Laetitia Rutherford, Daunt BooksBook launch for Our Hearts Hang From the Lemon Trees by Laetitia Rutherford, Daunt Books
September 18, 2013 @ 6:30 pm
Book launch for Laetitia Rutherford’s memoir, Our Hearts Hang From the Lemon Trees, published by Short Books. More information/book tickets   Simon Schama and Bettany Hughes talk to Prospect, The Shaw TheatreSimon Schama and Bettany Hughes talk to Prospect, The Shaw Theatre
September 18, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Join Prospect for an evening of conversation with Simon Schama and Bettany Hughes to celebrate the publication of Schama’s long-awaited The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 100 BCE – 1492. The Story of the Jews is an epic of endurance against destruction, creativity in oppression, joy admist grief. Don’t miss the chance to hear two of our most [&hellip |
Giles Milton in conversation with Roland Chambers, Daunt Bookshop MaryleboneGiles Milton in conversation with Roland Chambers, Daunt Bookshop Marylebone
September 19, 2013 @ 7:00 am - 5:00 pm
Giles Milton has followed his best-sellers Paradise Lost and Nathaniel’s Nutmeg with Russian Roulette. His storytelling is as fine as ever in this tale of a Soviet plot to destroy British rule in India. It is also the story of the British spies who were sent to thwart it, a small band of men who [&hellip Concerning Frank Kermode, LRBConcerning Frank Kermode, LRB
September 19, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Frank Kermode was the great humanist critic of his generation. The LRB and the Department of English at UCL have together instituted an annual event to commemorate Kermode’s distinguished life and highly influential work. This year’s inaugural discussion, in which Jacqueline Rose and Michael Wood among others will participate, and which will be chaired by John Mullan, [&hellip Peter Bradshaw discusses Night of Triumph, Brick LanePeter Bradshaw discusses Night of Triumph, Brick Lane
September 19, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw will be reading from, talking about and signing his novel ‘Night of Triumph’. On VE night, 1945, the then teenage princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, were allowed to leave the palace incognito and join the parties and festivities with their subjects – pretending to be ordinary people for the first and [&hellip |
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Open House London, The London LibraryOpen House London, The London Library
September 21, 2013 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The London Library is delighted to announce it will once again be taking part in Open House London – the capital’s greatest architectural showcase taking place on 21 & 22 September 2013. Open House London celebrates all that is best about the capital’s buildings, places and neighbourhoods. Every September, it gives a unique opportunity to [&hellip |
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The Southbank book club discuss The Turn of the ScrewThe Southbank book club discuss The Turn of the Screw
September 25, 2013 @ 6:30 pm
Our book club explores The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Throughout 2013 we read books to tie in with Southbank Centre’s year-long festival on 20th-century culture and music, The Rest Is Noise. Please read the book in advance of the event and bring a copy with you on the evening. September marks Benjamin Britten’s centenary, making [&hellip Max Hastings on Catastrophe: Europe goes to War 1914, Daunt Bookshop, MaryleboneMax Hastings on Catastrophe: Europe goes to War 1914, Daunt Bookshop, Marylebone
September 25, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Max Hastings, amongst the finest military historians of the Second World War, turns his formidable skills to the Great War. Catastrophe looks at both the roots of the conflict and its early years and argues against the ‘poets’ view’ that it was not worth winning. He offers a striking and broad account of seven nations [&hellip The Betrayal of Oscar Wilde: Rupert Everett, Merlin Holland and Sir David Hare, Soho Literary FestivalThe Betrayal of Oscar Wilde: Rupert Everett, Merlin Holland and Sir David Hare, Soho Literary Festival
September 25, 2013 @ 7:30 pm
Sir David Hare, who wrote The Judas Kiss, and Rupert Everett, the play’s star,are delighted to be opening the festival with a discussion with Merlin Holland. Merlin is Oscar Wilde’s only grandchild and the co-curator of the Wilde exhibition at the British library. His father, Vyvyan Holland, wrote a memoir,The Son of Oscar Wilde. More information/book tickets |
Virginia Ironside: Growing Old Disgracefully, Soho Literary FestivalVirginia Ironside: Growing Old Disgracefully, Soho Literary Festival
September 26, 2013 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
When an agony aunt reaches her sixties, she can lie like a trouper, jump off a bridge – or take to the stage. Virginia Ironside is a well-known British journalist and author. Her career began in the 1960s when she wrote a rock column for the Daily Mail. Today she writes the Dilemmas column for the Independent and a monthly column for The [&hellip Claire Tomalin on Charles Dickens, Soho Literary FestivalClaire Tomalin on Charles Dickens, Soho Literary Festival
September 26, 2013 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
We are delighted to welcome Claire Tomalin to the Soho Literary Festival. She is one of our most prominent literary biographers, whose subjects have included Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Katherine Mansfield, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft. She will be talking about her acclaimed work, Charles Dickens: A Life. More information/book tickets The Animals: Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, Soho Literary FestivalThe Animals: Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, Soho Literary Festival
September 26, 2013 @ 7:30 pm
In 1952, Christopher Isherwood (Goodbye to Berlin) met the teenage Don Bachardy on Santa Monica beach. Defying convention, the two men began living together as an openly gay couple in an otherwise closeted Hollywood. Their relationship lasted until Isherwood’s death in 1986. In romantic letters to one another, the couple created the private world of the Animals. Christopher was ‘Dobbin’, [&hellip |
Craig Brown & Friends, Soho Literary FestivalCraig Brown & Friends, Soho Literary Festival
September 27, 2013 @ 6:00 pm
Last year’s show, Comedy and Parody with Craig Brown & Friends, was a sell-out – so Craig and his friends are back this year by popular demand, with their own One-Stop Literary Festival, including the prose and poetry of such distinguished authors as Paolo Coelho, Vivienne Westwood, Pippa Middleton and Ed Miliband. His ‘& Friends’ and partners [&hellip We Need To Talk About Lionel: Rosie Boycott talks to Lionel Shriver, Soho Literary FestivalWe Need To Talk About Lionel: Rosie Boycott talks to Lionel Shriver, Soho Literary Festival
September 27, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Rosie Boycott, former editor of the Independent and the Daily Express, will interview Lionel Shriver, the award-winning author of the hugely successful and controversial We Need to Talk About Kevin (which was later adapted for the big screen). Shriver’s most recent book is Big Brother, a novel that delves into the topical issue of obesity and extreme diets. More information/book tickets |
Dreaming of Daphne du Maurier with Jane Dunn and Hilary Macaskill, Soho Literary FestivalDreaming of Daphne du Maurier with Jane Dunn and Hilary Macaskill, Soho Literary Festival
September 29, 2013 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Daphne du Maurier is one of the icons of 20th-century literature. Hugely successful as a writer, her short story The Birds and novels Rebecca and Jamaica Inn were also effortlessly transferred to the screen. Daphne was the daughter of the Edwardian actor-manager, Gerald du Maurier, whose funeral she refused to attend, the wife of ‘Boy’ [&hellip The Grammar Bee with Mr Gwynne, Harry Mount and Toby Young, Soho Literary FestivalThe Grammar Bee with Mr Gwynne, Harry Mount and Toby Young, Soho Literary Festival
September 29, 2013 @ 12:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Gwynne’s Grammar has sat at the top of the bestseller lists for most of the year. Why? Because most of us have the nagging doubt that our English ain’t what it might be. Harry Mount (Amo, Amas, Amat) is a fellow stickler for good grammar, not because he’s pedantic but because he believes good English helps people in [&hellip Life and Death in Victorian England with Judith Flanders, Kate Colquhoun and Claire Armitstead, Soho Literary FestivalLife and Death in Victorian England with Judith Flanders, Kate Colquhoun and Claire Armitstead, Soho Literary Festival
September 29, 2013 @ 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Claire Armitstead, the literary editor of the Guardian, will talk to Judith Flanders and Kate Colquhoun about survival in the 19th century, when you might well fall victim to murder, assault, poor medicine or an epidemic – in a time when sex was taboo and death was revered. More information/book tickets |
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Lincoln Book Festival: James Fergusson on The Most Dangerous Place on EarthLincoln Book Festival: James Fergusson on The Most Dangerous Place on Earth
September 30, 2013 @ 6:15 pm
James Fergusson THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE ON EARTH: inside the outlaw state of Somalia Award winning author and journalist James Fergusson has met everyone in Somalia from politicians, pirates, extremists and mercenaries to aid workers, civilians and refugees. He gives a unique account of a country ravaged by war, considers what the future might hold for [&hellip An evening with Robert Harris, The TelegraphAn evening with Robert Harris, The Telegraph
September 30, 2013 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Read all reviews for An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris. The ticket includes a copy of An Officer and A Spy to collect at the event, and a drinks and canapé reception. More information/book tickets 5 x 15, Belgravia5 x 15, Belgravia
September 30, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
Unscripted true stories of passion, obsession and adventure from Ruby Wax, Serge Schmemann, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin and Sarah Harper. More information/book tickets |