Literary Calendar
Events for April 2014
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Visual Editions at Ace Hotel ShoreditchVisual Editions at Ace Hotel Shoreditch
April 2, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
Dazed’s Stuart Hammond will be in conversation with local London residents and map makers author and poet Joe Dunthorne and novelist Adam Thirlwell. It’s all happening on Wednesday 2nd April, with doors and drinks at 18.30 and readings and conversation at 19.00 at Ace Hotel London Kamila Shamsie, Southbank CentreKamila Shamsie, Southbank Centre
April 2, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
The launch event of Kamila Shamsie’s new novel A God in Every Stone. Named last year as one of Granta‘s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’, Kamila Shamsie is the author of five works of fiction. Her most recent, Burnt Shadows, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. Her [&hellip |
Eleanor Catton in conversation with Robert Macfarlane, RSLEleanor Catton in conversation with Robert Macfarlane, RSL
April 3, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
A special collaboration with the Royal Society of Literature and Intelligent Life magazine sees the return of Eleanor Catton to London for an exclusive event in which Robert Macfarlane, bestselling travel writer and Chair of the Man Booker Prize judges, will interview Catton for the first time. Read all reviews for The Luminaries Last October, [&hellip |
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Tim Parks on Teach Us to Sit Still, Kings PlaceTim Parks on Teach Us to Sit Still, Kings Place
April 7, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
‘Just when the medical profession had given up on me and I on it, just when I seemed to be walled up in a life sentence of chronic pain, someone proposed a bizarre way out: sit still, they said, and breathe. I sat still. I breathed. It seemed a tedious exercise at first, rather painful, [&hellip |
Donna Leon talks to Judith Flanders, Daunt’s MaryleboneDonna Leon talks to Judith Flanders, Daunt’s Marylebone
April 8, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
A great crime writer on her latest superb Brunetti mystery. Judith Flanders is best known for her wonderful Victorian history books, Victorian London and The Invention of Murder, will be in conversation with Donna Leon. Judith’s new crime novel, Writer’s Block, has just been published. More information |
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Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism: David Harvey and Owen Jones, LRBSeventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism: David Harvey and Owen Jones, LRB
April 10, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
In his new book, Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (Profile), David Harvey unravels the paradoxes at the heart of capitalism – its drive, for example, to accumulate capital beyond the means of investing it; its imperative to use labour-saving technologies that leave consumers bereft of adequate means of consumption; and its compulsion to exploit nature to the [&hellip |
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The importance of science: Bill Bryson at the Royal SocietyThe importance of science: Bill Bryson at the Royal Society
April 15, 2014 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
He has been given the President’s Award by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Bradford Washburn Award by the Museum of Science in Boston and has been made an honorary Fellow of the Kavli Institute of Particle Physics, the British Science Association and the Royal Society. Yet renowned author Bill Bryson claims to have been [&hellip |
Alan Johnson on This Boy, Daunt’s MaryleboneAlan Johnson on This Boy, Daunt’s Marylebone
April 16, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
The former Home Secretary on his beautifully written memoir of a troubled but ultimately triumphant childhood in the 50′s and 60′s. Lara Feigel in conversation with Selina Hastings on The Love-Charm of Bombs, Daunt’s MaryleboneLara Feigel in conversation with Selina Hastings on The Love-Charm of Bombs, Daunt’s Marylebone
April 16, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
The bombs of the Second World War wrought terrible destruction on London, but they were also a ‘love-charm’ for the city’s inhabitants. Freed from the responsibilities of normal life, many Londoners succumbed to the thrill of wartime passion. In her extraordinary work – part history, part biography and part literary criticism – Lara Feigel describes [&hellip |
Danny Dorling with Ed Howker, Southbank CentreDanny Dorling with Ed Howker, Southbank Centre
April 17, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
Why are the British so obsessed with house prices? Housing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on the housing market. What does it mean for our future? Tracing how we got to our current crisis and how housing has come to reflect class and wealth in [&hellip |
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Canongate’s Letters Live, Southbank CentreCanongate’s Letters Live, Southbank Centre
April 23, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Letters Live celebrates the enduring power of literary correspondence. Inspired by To the Letter by Simon Garfield and Letters of Note by Shaun Usher, Letters Live celebrates letters. All reviews for To the Letter by Simon Garfield All reviews for Letters of Note by Shaun Usher From Virginia Woolf’s heart-breaking suicide letter to the recipe for drop scones sent by Queen Elizabeth II to President [&hellip Sarah Hall, A.L. Kennedy, Helen Simpson, Southbank CentreSarah Hall, A.L. Kennedy, Helen Simpson, Southbank Centre
April 23, 2014 @ 8:00 pm
Three of our greatest short story writers read a story that questions what it means to be human. Following on from our discussion on the art of curiosity, three leading authors read a story that questions what it means to be human; to live, to love, to fall ill, to suffer a head injury, and [&hellip |
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5×15, Wilton’s Music Hall5×15, Wilton’s Music Hall
April 27, 2014 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Wellcome Prize nominees, Sarah Wise, Elizabeth Gilbert and Emily Mayhew at Wilton’s Music Hall. All reviews More information |
Auden And Us with Alexander McCall Smith and Edward Mendelson, CourtauldAuden And Us with Alexander McCall Smith and Edward Mendelson, Courtauld
April 28, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
W.H. Auden once called poetry “a way of happening”, and in his own work the way was a marvellous one, striking a deep, popular chord. His “Funeral Blues” provides the only moment of gravity in Four Weddings and a Funeral; “September 1, 1939” was faxed around New York in the aftermath of 9/11. For Alexander McCall [&hellip 5×15, The Tabernacle5×15, The Tabernacle
April 28, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Charmian Gooch, Akhil Sharma, Miranda Carter, Henry Marsh, Ian McEwan at 5×15 More information Philip Hensher on The Emperor Waltz, Southbank CentrePhilip Hensher on The Emperor Waltz, Southbank Centre
April 28, 2014 @ 7:45 pm
Philip Hensher reads from his new novel The Emperor Waltz. The Emperor Waltz is described by the author as ‘a big, camp epic about books, AIDS, boyfriends, money, political protest and the importance of not having your bathroom suite in avocado.’ Hensher is joined by Rebecca Chance, LaJohn Joseph, Kiki Archer and Sophie Ward. Paul Burston’s celebrated [&hellip |
Akhil Sharma with David SedarisAkhil Sharma with David Sedaris
April 29, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi in 1971 and moved to the US at the age of eight. His first novel An Obedient Father (2001) won him a PEN/Hemingway prize, a Whiting Award, and praise from the likes of Jonathan Franzen and Joyce Carol Oates. Now, more than a decade later, Akhil will be at the shop to [&hellip |
Dominic Lawson, Flash Boys, Michael Lewis at 5×15, RGSDominic Lawson, Flash Boys, Michael Lewis at 5×15, RGS
April 30, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Dominic Lawson, Flash Boys, Michael Lewis. More information |