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From the banks of the Thames down to Peckham, here’s the best of the borough.

It starts with a call. The deep, calm voice asks if you’re alone. If you are, instructions pour forth on precisely where and when to meet your co-conspirators. And so begins the game-cum-tour experience which is the Menier Chocolate Factory’s Accomplice: London, an exercise in …

Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops A new bookshop has appeared in the corner of Bermondsey Square. It’s a beautiful, calm environment where you can sip a drink and nibble on a Konditor and Cook cake and admire the latest exhibition, but none of …

Photo / tim.pearse The Shunt lounge, a clandestine speakeasy-cum-performance space formerly located beneath London Bridge, has closed then re-opened before closing once again in the past year alone, so it’s unsurprising (but welcome nonetheless) to learn that it is being brought back to life. The …

Keep an eye out for these yellow discs, currently decorating the lamp posts of Southwark. Each is a sign that something noteworthy happened nearby, and will point you to a mobile web page where you can read all about it. The idea comes from a …

By DeanN A new bi-monthly mini-festival starts at Bermondsey’s Shortwave Cinema tomorrow. Exploring “the most interesting things in the universe” Rich Pickings starts off looking ‘between the lines’ on Sunday at the passage of film from page to screen through adaptation and translation. It’s high …