Even on its quietest weeks, London is something of a happy haven for bibliophiles such as ourselves, though we may be doing nothing more than perusing one of the city’s many lovely bookshops. This week, however, we’re in a veritable book geek heaven, as the London literary scene goes all glittery, playing host to some major names and fantastic events, leaving us tongue-tied and weak at the knees. Do we gush? Very well then,......

Watch your step this weekend: there is a veritable feast of festivals for Londoners starting from tomorrow until the last person stands partying on Sunday. You're very likely to just trip over one. Cardinal Place Carnival This new shopping and dining area in Victoria is putting itself on the map as a chic and unique place to spend your money and eat well. It is very definitely not a shopping centre and attempts to......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. August is a quiet month for book launches and the like, so lucky there's a good old fashioned book brawl to hot things up! Yes, it's Greer versus Rushdie. The two have famously never seen eye to eye (Greer went to Cambridge University in the late '60s with Rushdie, and have had several reported......

Perhaps it was too much to expect a faithful reproduction of an area like Crouch End on TV because, well... why would you want to see that? However, a lush, full-sound, full-scale cinematic screen-capture of the sights and scenes of Brick Lane is a far more exciting prospect and no doubt those waiting for the film adaptation of Monica Ali's Booker-shortlisted novel Brick Lane are expecting a few scenes to be filmed in, you......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. There's a wide range of events to choose from this week, with something on offer nearly every night of the week. We also have new releases from, among others, Douglas Coupland (pictured), Peter Carey, Monica Ali, Will Self, and A.M. Homes... Events Around London: Tonight, Turkish author Elif Safak celebrates the English translation of......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. We're not even going to bother with our weekly rant about how the publishing industry isn't publishing anything anymore. Mostly because we know it's not going to do any good, but also because we're sick of repeating ourselves. Instead, we'll just point you to Book Slam, because regardless of what gets read there, you're......