Exhibition Review: Murder In The Library! @ The British Library
A celebration of crime fiction comes to the British Library.
Agatha Christie
Extra, Extra
Hidden parks, sand, golden thrones, Agatha Christie and other news.
Theatre Review: Murder on the Nile @ New Wimbledon Theatre
Where’s Poirot when you need him?
Monday Miscellanea
This week in London’s history:
Lit Review: Terry Pratchett @ Chiswick Book Festival
Chiswick Book Festival kicked off on Friday in fine style by giving Sir Terry Pratchett the chance to promote his latest book, I Shall Wear Midnight aimed at his younger readers. He was in a sprightly mood and didn’t disappoint the faithful West London fans …
Monday Miscellanea
This Week In London’s History Monday – 24th November 1868: The new meat market at Smithfield (known as the Central Market) is opened. Tuesday – 25th November 1952: Agatha Christie’s stage play, The Mousetrap, begins its run at the New Ambassadors Theatre in the West …
Mousetrapped
It’s good to know that no matter what else changes in London there is one mainstay that has proved indestructible: The producer of Agatha Christie’s thriller “The Mousetrap” predicted on Monday that the world’s longest running play would never close. As the classic whodunnit embarked …
The Londonist Literary List
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. It’s a busy old week, so let’s get on: Tonight May Contain Graphic Content poses the question “Are graphic novels a complex and creative new …
The Londonist Literary List
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. August is a quiet month for book launches and the like, so lucky there’s a good old fashioned book brawl to hot things up! Yes, …
The Lights. The Greasepaint. The Projectile Vomiting.
When we finished writing today’s Extra, Extra we thought there could be no other headline today that could get anywhere beating the sheer genius of Huge armed thief steals small car. But we have to admit that Theatregoers sprayed with vomit does come a pretty …
The Londonist Literary List
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. The Edinburgh Festival ended last month and we literary Londoners were finally allowed to have some interesting stuff to do around here for awhile. But …
