Speak To Strangers: Guerilla Book Drop
A hundred short stories of a hundred conversations with a hundred strangers, each in a hundred words.
Reading
In Pictures: Covent Garden Lawn Library
Relax with a good book this weekend in a pop-up library in Covent Garden piazza.
London Word Festival Review: The Quiet Volume
Do you remember learning to read? When were you last in a library for some quality time with a text?
Day Of Action To Save London’s Libraries
Did you go the library on Saturday?
Lit Preview: Tall Tales @ The Good Ship
The bloke behind the alternative universe football, family and friends novel Kilburn Social Club is putting on a show. Them that know say it will be ace and you are guaranteed sexy mermaids knowledge. So here’s the skinny: Tall Tales at The Good Ship in …
Lit Preview: James Ellroy @ QEH
James Ellroy, author of LA Confidential and The Black Dahlia, is reading from his latest novel Blood’s a Rover at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Tuesday. Blood’s a Rover is the final part of his ‘Underworld’ trilogy, and follows US political and social life from …
Last Minute Listing: The Doorbells Of Florence At Stanfords Bookshop
It’s been a play, now there’s a reading: The Doorbells of Florence will be presented by the author at Stanfords Travel bookshop tonight, 7.30pm and we’ve got a special offer for Londonist readers. Stanfords is one of the most delightful specialist bookshops in London and …
Libraries Not For Lending
By sunstarr Our “bring it on approach” to sexing up libraries was bookishly bold but seems to have been borne out by the latest visitor figures that put 6 London libraries in the top 20 most visited in the UK. Croydon Central Library rocks 4th …
The Book Grocer
The book grocer’s coffers are chockfull of goodies this week, so let’s jump right in and get shopping… Monday: Crikey. Take a look at author and critic George Steiner’s publishing credits and you have to wonder whether the man has actually slept in the past …
The Book Grocer: Valentine’s Events Preview
Congratulations – you can read! (Presumably. Unless you just look at Londonist for the pictures.) Literacy is sexy. Hyper-literacy, even sexier. Or so we at Londonist tell ourselves as we don our Coke-bottle glasses and curl up each night with a bottle of wine and …
Win: Pete & The Pirates Tickets
Fresh out of Reading, the well named Pete and The Pirates are currently making their way round the country, stopping off at Soho’s Borderline on January 29. Energetic and pacey, we first came across them when the awesome Good Weather for Air Strikes highlighted them …
