Literary Calendar
Events for January 2014
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2013 TS Eliot Prize readings at the Southbank2013 TS Eliot Prize readings at the Southbank
January 12, 2014 @ 7:30 pm
Hear readings from the poets shortlisted for the 2013 TS Eliot Prize, one of the most loved events of the literary calendar. Ian McMillan comperes the evening. Ian Duhig chairs the judging panel, accompanied by two other judges, poets Vicki Feaver and Imtiaz Dharker. Expect an electric atmosphere at this performance, which is a unique [&hellip |
Jeanette Winterson and Stephen Grosz at Kings PlaceJeanette Winterson and Stephen Grosz at Kings Place
January 13, 2014 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Award-winning Jeanette Winterson, author of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, in conversation with Stephen Grosz, psychoanalyst and author of The Examined Life. Funny, acute, fierce and celebratory, Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal tells how the painful past she thought she had left behind returned to haunt her, and sent her on a journey into madness and [&hellip |
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The White Review No. 9 with Matthew Gregory and Francesco Pacifico, FoylesThe White Review No. 9 with Matthew Gregory and Francesco Pacifico, Foyles
January 23, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
The White Review, an arts and literature quarterly, launches its ninth issue featuring new fiction, essays, reportage, poetry, artwork and interviews. Tonight’s guests include the winner of the Eric Gregory award 2010, poet Matthew Gregory and the author of The Story of My Purity, Italian novelist Francesco Pacifico. Book tickets/more information Will Self on Guy Debord, LRBWill Self on Guy Debord, LRB
January 23, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Will Self will be at the shop to discuss the work of Guy Debord, and in particular The Society of the Spectacle, for the new Notting Hill edition of which he has written an introduction. ‘Never before’, he writes, ‘has Debord’s work seemed quite as relevant as it does now, in the permanent present that [&hellip Is the world of literature is becoming more, or less, closed? With Jonathan Dimbleby, Alan Johnson and Stephen KelmanIs the world of literature is becoming more, or less, closed? With Jonathan Dimbleby, Alan Johnson and Stephen Kelman
January 23, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
There is much talk about social mobility, but little evidence of it in Britain today. Private school students are fifty-five times more likely to win a place at Oxbridge than students at state schools who qualify for Free School Meals. Seven per cent of children attend private schools, but they account for 54% of FTSE [&hellip |
5×15: Matthew Green, Simon Munnery, Deborah Levy, Anna Whitelock, Steve Jones5×15: Matthew Green, Simon Munnery, Deborah Levy, Anna Whitelock, Steve Jones
January 24, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
Matthew Green, Simon Munnery, Deborah Levy, Anna Whitelock and Steve Jones at 5×15 at Tate Britain. More information/book tickets |
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Emily’s Walking Book Club, DauntsEmily’s Walking Book Club, Daunts
January 26, 2014 @ 11:30 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday, 26th of January at 11.30am at our shop on South End Road Join other book-lovers for a walk on Hampstead Heath to discuss a lost Russian masterpiece, The Spectre of Alexander Wolf. A man is haunted by the memory of a soldier he killed, until he reads a story that describes it in perfect detail. Obsessed [&hellip |
Frank Furedi on the First World War, FoylesFrank Furedi on the First World War, Foyles
January 27, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
Dr Frank Furedi is a social commentator and author and emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury. His latest book argues that the battle of ideas which crystallized during the course of the Great War continues to the present, and claims that the Culture Wars of today are the latest expressions of a [&hellip Germaine Greer at Kings PlaceGermaine Greer at Kings Place
January 27, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
The author of The Female Eunuch tells us how she embraced the fight to bring back a forest in her native Australia. Expect Germaine Greer to bring the same passion with which she defended feminist issues to the essential challenge faced by our planet’s biodiversity. Book tickets/more information |
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Jonathan Lethem on his book Dissident Gardens, LRBJonathan Lethem on his book Dissident Gardens, LRB
January 29, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Jonathan Lethem’s latest book Dissident Gardens (Cape) tells, in a ‘torrent of potent voices, searing ironies, popculture allusions, and tragicomic complexities’ the story of three generations of a radical New York family, at the same time painting a vivid portrait of the American Century. Book tickets/more information |
Bookslam at Clapham GrandBookslam at Clapham Grand
January 30, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
January sees us attack the new year head-on with an event as bracing as a stiff breeze, sweeping as a new broom and challenging as Anneka … we welcome two of the most creative thinkers we know (albeit of very different thoughts and very different talents) in, dare we say, an unusual masterstroke of programming. JONATHAN [&hellip |
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