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Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …

A duchess, a PM’s wife and a queen of the bestsellers all make an appearance in this week’s events around town. And you thought literary London would just go quietly into hibernation until after the holidays… Wednesday: Medical London historian Richard Barnett and editor Mike …

A blog, humbly devoted to all things London, Londonist is – could you have guessed? Meet the fib – no, not the kind you told at uni when submitting yet another late essay – but the poetic kind: a 6-line verse reminiscent, in its constriction …

Or, Dear Martin Creed: I didn’t really want to run in your exhibition anyway Been to see the sprinters at the Tate Britain yet? Whatever are you waiting for? Whilst you’ve been working, eating, sleeping, living – they’ve been running running running: some 310 km …

After a momentary pause, literary London returns to form this week, with a couple of ace festivals headed our way. Wednesday: There are no fewer than three events on our radar for this evening: Chapman brother Jake discusses his debut novel, The Marriage of Reason …

And we’re off! Polls open about now at many locations along the Eastern U.S., and for many of London’s American expats and interested observers, a long day and night’s anticipation awaits. Will we chew all our fingernails off? Be forced to throw back shots of …

There’s a rather eerie silence over literary London this week, but with the US election, Bonfire Night and the Lord Mayor’s Show all happening in rapid succession over the next 5 days, we suppose that this is one of those (rare?) occasions when life is …

Gift-giving season is grand (books in the book grocer’s stocking [if the grinch banker doesn't steal Christmas]), but when it comes to unadulterated bibliophilia, it’s autumn that sets our hearts aflutter. With literature festivals ongoing all over the country and a rapid rollout of the …

Sex will be had in a different city the next time around, if Mr Big gets his way. That’s because Chris Noth, the 53-year-old actor who played Sarah Jessica Parker’s long-time love interest-cum-sugar daddy in both the Sex and the City series and movie, would …

No, this isn’t another Sarah Palin story. In place of the pit-bull-in-lipstick, we bring you the decidedly nonpartisan Coal, the bulldog-with-a-prosthetic-leg (and if he has an opinion, he’s just not saying). Coal lost his left forepaw to cancer a year ago, and osteoarthritis in his …