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Weekly literary event listings plus book reviews, London poems and spoken word happenings.

Sylvia Plath. Photo credit: Rollie McKenna

Full Reading Of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel At London Literature Festival

40 fantastic women will perform Plath’s poems.

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London Book And Poetry Events: 11-17 April

SJ Bolton, Simon Armitage, AC Grayling and Granta in a bumper week.

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London’s Industrial Heritage Explored In New Book

From mighty warships to false teeth…London made everything.

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London Book And Poetry Events: 4-10 April

Taiye Selasi, Book Slam, a Doctor Who celebration and more booky events.

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London Book And Poetry Events: 28 March-3 April

Mohsin Hamid, Rachel Cusk, Joe Dunthorne, Luke Wright, Craig Taylor and more.

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London-Themed Literary Events All April With Cityread

Start reading Sebastian Faulks’s A Week in December and get involved.

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London Book And Poetry Events: 21-27 March

Gillian Slovo, James Herbert, Jodi Picoult and other authors and poets in town.

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Penguin Publishes Set Of Books Inspired By Each Tube Line

12 books for 12 lines.

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Criminal London: A Criminally Good Book

Thicker and chewier than a truncheon sandwich.

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London Book And Poetry Events: 14-20 March

A.L. Kennedy, Soho stories, St Patrick’s day and lots more author and spoken word events.

Thomas Shotter's view of Piccadilly, 1842. ©The Trustees of the British Museum.

Never Published Images Of London Feature In New Book From The British Museum

70 historic views of the capital you’ve probably never seen before.