Literary Calendar
Events for July 2014
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Beginning, Middle And End with Michael Holroyd and Deborah Moggach, RSLBeginning, Middle And End with Michael Holroyd and Deborah Moggach, RSL
July 2, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Tens of thousands of novels are published in the UK every year – so how do new voices get heard? Two well-established authors, Michael Holroyd and Deborah Moggach, introduce two outstanding young writers with novels coming out this month. Karin Altenberg’s first novel, Island of Wings, was set on St Kilda, and was shortlisted for the [&hellip The Gender Issue, Southbank CentreThe Gender Issue, Southbank Centre
July 2, 2014 @ 8:00 pm
Why are women still unequally represented in publishing? Every year, the VIDA Count provides a tally of male and female representation in major literary publications and book reviews. The Count has led the way in highlighting the fact that the gender inequality in publishing is unambiguous and ongoing. Hosted by the editors of all-female online [&hellip |
Literary Death Match, FoylesLiterary Death Match, Foyles
July 3, 2014 @ 7:30 pm
4 authors…3 judges…2 rounds…1 epic finale! Literary Death Match, the world’s biggest live literary gameshow is coming to Independent Booksellers Week with Windmill Books (the online home of literary publishers William Heinemann, Hutchinson and, of course, Windmill). Join Alexandra Heminsley, Carys Bray, Nick Harkaway, John Boyne and more for a star-studded show to whet your [&hellip |
The White Review with Deborah Levy, Greg Baxter, Benedict Andrews and Sam Riviere, FoylesThe White Review with Deborah Levy, Greg Baxter, Benedict Andrews and Sam Riviere, Foyles
July 4, 2014 @ 8:00 pm
The White Review presents an evening of readings with an international flavour by novelists Deborah Levy and Greg Baxter, playwright Benedict Andrews and poet Sam Riviere. Benedict Andrews is an Australian theatre and opera director now resident in Iceland. This year, his first collection of poetry Lens Flare will be published by Pitt Street Poetry in Australia and [&hellip |
Political Digest with Owen Jones and Hadley Freeman, FoylesPolitical Digest with Owen Jones and Hadley Freeman, Foyles
July 5, 2014 @ 5:00 pm
Take a look at the year ahead in the political and social calendar, with outspoken opinion leaders and columnists, Owen Jones and Hadley Freeman. Join them as they anticipate and speculate on the landmark events, issues and scandals that will be hitting the headlines; from whether a Grandmother can make a suitable President up to, [&hellip |
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The Empathy Exams: Leslie Jamison and Olivia LaingThe Empathy Exams: Leslie Jamison and Olivia Laing
July 8, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Leslie Jamison’s essays deal with pain, illness, art, running, loss, the female body and everything else besides. She will be at the shop to discuss her work with the author Olivia Laing, who wrote of her in the New York Times ‘There is a glory to this kind of writing that derives as much from [&hellip |
Another Great Day at Sea: Geoff Dyer, LRBAnother Great Day at Sea: Geoff Dyer, LRB
July 9, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Geoff Dyer’s latest book Another Great Day at Sea (Visual Editions), illustrated with the photographs of Chris Steele-Perkins, recounts daily life aboard an American aircraft carrier the USS George H. W. Bush, on which Dyer spent time as a kind of writer in residence. Philip Hoare wrote of it in the Guardian: ‘This is beautiful [&hellip |
Happy are the happy: Yasmina Reza talks to Sarah ArdizzoneHappy are the happy: Yasmina Reza talks to Sarah Ardizzone
July 10, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
French writer Yasmina Reza first came to the attention of a British audience with the hugely popular and award-winning West End production of her play Art. More recently she adapted her own play The God of Carnage into the hit film Carnage, directed by Roman Polanski and starring Jodie Foster and Kate Winslet. She is [&hellip |
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African new writing: The Caine Prize Readings, Southbank CentreAfrican new writing: The Caine Prize Readings, Southbank Centre
July 13, 2014 @ 5:00 pm
The Caine Prize Readings are an opportunity to hear the best in new fiction and celebrate Africa’s leading literary award. Each shortlisted writer reads from and discusses their work. The 2014 shortlist is: Diane Awerbuck (South Africa) ‘Phosphorescence’ in Cabin Fever(Umuzi, Cape Town. 2011) Efemia Chela (Ghana/Zambia) ‘Chicken’ in Feast, Famine and Potluck (Short Story Day Africa, South Africa. 2013) Tendai Huchu (Zimbabwe) [&hellip |
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American Interior: Gruff Rhys and Iain Sinclair, LRBAmerican Interior: Gruff Rhys and Iain Sinclair, LRB
July 15, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
In the summer of 2012, Gruff Rhys, the lead singer and guitarist of Super Furry Animals, made a bizarre pilgrimage across the United States. He was following in the footsteps of his distant relative, the pioneering explorer and cartographer John Evans, who had set off from Snowdonia in 1792 in an attempt to track down [&hellip |
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Poets’ Love Letters, Southbank CentrePoets’ Love Letters, Southbank Centre
July 19, 2014 @ 7:30 pm
To celebrate Southbank Centre’s Festival of Love, hear readings from heartbreaking love letters. Harriet Walter and Guy Paul read the letters between Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Rilke and Marina Tsvetaeva. Ben Lamb reads Keats and Rupert Brooke. Susannah Fielding reads Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath and Pablo Neruda Jason Hughes reads one of Dylan Thomas’s [&hellip |
50 Love Poems, Southbank Centre50 Love Poems, Southbank Centre
July 20, 2014 @ 7:30 pm
Hear fifty of the greatest love poems from the last 50 years. More information. Actors and poets from across the globe come together for a celebratory reading. What does love give us? It gives us hope; courage; defiance. Through these poems we look at the world as it is now, through human qualities that counteract [&hellip |
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Rise of the Domestic Thriller at the Bloomsbury InstituteRise of the Domestic Thriller at the Bloomsbury Institute
July 22, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
Psychological thrillers in which girlfriends mysteriously disappear, husbands turn out not to be who you thought they were (or end up roasted and eaten) have gripped the nation. We peer under the covers of the domestic thriller to find out what it is we love about a gripping suspense that’s too close to home for [&hellip |
Susie Orbach talks ‘Jungles of the Mind’, London ZooSusie Orbach talks ‘Jungles of the Mind’, London Zoo
July 23, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
In the presence of one of the most beautiful and endangered “fauna of the night” - inhabitant of the world’s last remaining jungles - the distinguished psychoanalyst Susie Orbach talks about “jungles of the mind” at the ZSL London Zoo. It’s part of a regular series where ZSL conservation scientists and keepers team up with leading writers to [&hellip The Ranters: Nigel Smith talks to Stephen SedleyThe Ranters: Nigel Smith talks to Stephen Sedley
July 23, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
The Ranters were a disparate group of religious and political radicals who flourished during Britain’s revolutionary moment, from the outbreak of the Civil Wars to the early years of the Commonwealth. Ever since the mid-17th century their extreme libertarianism has been an inspiration to several generations of revolutionaries, as well as the subject of heated [&hellip |
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Polari with Paul Bailey, Southbank CentrePolari with Paul Bailey, Southbank Centre
July 29, 2014 @ 7:45 pm
Paul Bailey headlines author and journalist Paul Burston’s celebrated literary den. He talks about his new novel The Prince’s Boy. Bailey is joined by Janet Ellis, Tiffany Murray, Vernal Scott and Wayne Herbert. Recently named one of the world’s top LGBT events by ArtInfo,Polari literary salon returns for the summer season, offering the very best in new, [&hellip |
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