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The book grocer returns from August hiatus to find all kinds of lovely literary events with which to fill up our diary for September. And having remembered a lesson or two from primary school (beer before liquor, never sicker? No, not that one), we share …

Long summer days conjure up memories of the carefree days of our youth. And then we read this: 10-year-old boys attack a woman after she denies them a cigarette. Shouldn’t they be bumming candy or, we don’t know, splashing around in a lido instead? By …

There are sometimes always so many lovely events going on in this city that keeping tabs on all we want to do and promote can often seem a Herculean task. Case in point: we’ve just now spotted the excellent-looking 3:AM in Conversation with Chris Petit. …

Summer, our fickle friend – are you going to cooperate with us now? No more depriving us of our fun in the sun, our picnics, our tans, our leisurely strolls through parks and convivial afternoons spent barbequing? Because if not, look at all the other …

Head to the Southbank Centre for the London Literature Festival Fresh Off the Page series. Tonight’s event, These Streets Sound Like LDN City, showcases the talents of several young spoken word artists and musicians and is put together by young curators from the SOWF Street …

B**K, an exhibition of book-inspired artworks, at the London Print Studio. See what happens when artists think outside the book: you get everything from tree-carved Log Books (pictured), to a pop-up jigsaw book accompanied by a herd of (we presume fake) sheep, to texts quite …

First Kilo the Cat, now Diesel the Dog – call it animal cruelty, antipathy, or apathy, it all incenses us just the same. Below we mete out armchair justice (and reveal why our law career never got off the ground). The Facts: A June 22 …

Festival season embeds itself in our social life this week and makes a mockery of our diary – it’s all illegible scribblings, strike-throughs, and exclamation points. Whilst we attempt to sort ourselves out, let’s see what sense we can make of the week ahead in …

We’re not going to lie: It was the panda and its gratuitous cuteness that drew us in. The curators of Endangered Wildlife Exposed were no doubt banking on that reaction when choosing an image to promote the Roger Hooper exhibit at Oxo Gallery. With their …

Where do Britons go when, in Christina Aguilera’s parlance, they want to get dirrty? (We’ll give you one guess.) Adding to its ever accumulating pile of accolades, London, according to a poll conducted by hotel site HRS.com, is the preferred destination for dirty weekends away. …