If you’re having a stroll along the South Bank tonight, be on the lookout for friendly hawkers trying to push books into your hands. We’re told that Canongate Books will be handing out 1,000 free copies – that’s free, folks – of Lewis Hyde’s 1983 classic, The Gift, along the South Bank at 6.00pm this evening. If you’re not familiar with the book, expect some heavy but worthwhile questions about the role of creativity......

Just out the Van: Margaret Atwood leaves the telepresence book-signing robot at home and joins fellow authors Andrew O'Hagan and Erica Wagner and publisher Stephen Page, Chief Executive of Faber & Faber, to discuss the brave new world of authors, readers and publishers in the age of new technology. Digitise or Die: What is the Future of the Book? is part of the London Book Fair. Tuesday 17th, 7.30pm, £9, The Southbank Centre. In......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Along with a wealth of events this week, new books by Margaret Atwood and Jay McInerney (pictured) are also of particular interest... Events Around London: Tonight, David Runciman discusses his new book, The Politics of Good Intentions, which claims that Blair and Bush have abused history in order to further their goals for the......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Yes, there is a new novel out by Nadine Gordimer this week (along with a serious slew of others). But early reports are leading us to believe that the real star of the new releases is The Possibillity of an Island, by the controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq (pictured). Once you get past the......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. This part of the world is doing quite well in literary circles these days, what with all of the praise heaped on the Booker Prize nominees and Harold Pinter winning the Nobel Prize. Heck, we've even noticed some American publications musing over their readerships' envy of British literature. And to really drive the point......

We're starting to feel a little peeved that every week we have to bow down to Edinburgh, this being the LONDONIST Literary List and all, and not an Ode to Cities to the North. But what can a column do, when it is not only London-centric, but Literary-centric as well, and all the literary stuff is in Edinburgh? But alas, there’s only a week to go, and it seems to be winding down a......

Yes, yes. There, there. All of you literary lovers out there now have a new reason to visit Londonist every Tuesday. It is here, yes, right here, on this Tuesday and on every Tuesday to come, that Londonist will be bringing you the very best and the very greatest of literary releases and readings and happenings around London. Yes, even writers have to get out of the flat every so often. Even bookworms need......

If you don't 'take' the Observer on a Sunday then you might have missed this article by Miranda Sawyer in the paper's Sunday magazine. The piece was written to mark the twenty-year anniversary of the death of photojournalist David Hodge, who was fatally injured during the Brixton riots. During the article Sawyer tries to assess the area in which she's lived for fifteen years and throws up some interesting facts while she's at it:......