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

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London Book And Poetry Events: 6-12 February

Andrew Motion, Neil McKenna, Clare Summerskill, poetry and storytelling.

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Book Review: London For Lovers By Sam Hodges And Sophie Vickers

Publication date just before Valentines might not be a coincidence.

"Watson, I must measure that Monopoly board." "But why, my dear Holmes?" "To see if the game is a foot".

Sherlock Holmes In Sci-Fi And Fantasy

To boldly go where no elementary Martians have battled dinosaurs, my dear Watson.

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London Book And Poetry Events: 30 January-5 February

Joe Dunthorne, Boris Akunin, Samantha Harvey, Kat Francois and more.

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Preview: LGBT History Month Events In London

Films, talks, art and walks in February.

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London Book And Poetry Events: 23-29 January

Loads of launches and the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice.

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London Poems: High Street Haiku

Poetic comment on the plight of HMV and Blockbuster.

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London Book And Poetry Events: 16-22 January

Andrew Kaufman, Gillian Slovo and Mark Billingham among the writers in London this week.

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London Poetry: A Hornchurch Commuter By Luke Wright

Poem from Luke Wright’s new collection, Mondeo Man.

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High Impact – Literature From The Low Countries @ The Tabernacle

Six Dutch writers are joined by Deborah Moggach, David Mitchell and Tracy Chevalier.

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Art Preview: Our Mutual Friends – A Celebration Of The Commonplace

Artworks inspired by Dickens’s bicentenary.