books

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

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Book Review: London In Maps, A Changing Perspective

200 pages of mappish goodness.

Photo by Annie Mole

Book Swap Wins Ideas4Mayor Competition

Bored with your book? Swap it for something more scintillating.

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Book Review: Dickens’s Victorian London 1839-1901

Or should it be Victoria’s Dickensian London?

Habibi by Craig Thompson £15.99

Go Christmas Shopping At Foyles

Did you know, Foyles have been selling books in London since 1903? (sponsored)

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Book Grocer: 7-13 December

Book, poetry and spoken word events in London this week

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Book Review: Do Not Alight Here By Ben Pedroche

Track down London’s many ghost stations.

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Book Grocer: 30 November-6 December

Book, poetry and spoken word events in London this week

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Lit Preview: Julian Barnes

The Booker Prize winner’s only public event this year, in aid of Freedom from Torture.

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Book Grocer: 23-29 November

Book, poetry and spoken word events in London this week.

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Book Review: Johnson’s Life of London by Boris Johnson

The Mayor of London has a new book about London.

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Manga Preview: Professor Munakata’s British Museum Adventure

Manga intrigue at the Bloomsbury attraction.