Sydenham is the place to be this summer for arts festival fun – there’s something happening almost every day from 6th June until 11th September, which is a phenomenal achievement before you even look at what those events are. However, we’d be pretty bloody remiss …
More of a penultimate minute listing, really. Just wanted to give you the heads up about this,as it sounds like a bit of fun. The Royal Park Keepers have ‘commissioned’ a stack of stories by a chapter of writers. Well, eight of them to be …
Al Robertson explores the capital’s live poetry scene and offers tips on where to get started. These days, we tend to think of a poem as being words written down, rather than spoken or sung. That’s a real shame, because it stops poetry from moving …
Another day, another tower to climb. Not content to sit back and rest on our laurels, the first full day of spring saw Londonist scaling a treacherous four stories of medieval spiralling staircase in Hackney’s St Augustine’s Tower with Hackneyite (though never hackneyed) urban chronicler …
Image courtesy of Annie Mole under the Creative Commons license In the next seven days: six Czech poets, five Yeats devotees, four more poets (but of eight minds), three ace events from the London Word Festival crew, two Shakespeare-inspired outings, and one under-the-radar reading from …
Image courtesy of an untrained eye under the Creative Commons license A happy confluence of events this week – the launch of the London Word Festival and a bibliophile’s international holiday – and the book grocer’s finally risen from her seasonal slumber. Wintry weather or …
Random trivia of the week: In what role did a 5-year-old Michael Palin make his acting debut in his preparatory school’s performance of A Christmas Carol? You’ll find the answer (it’s not as obvious as you might think) – and more appearances by both Palin …
A duchess, a PM’s wife and a queen of the bestsellers all make an appearance in this week’s events around town. And you thought literary London would just go quietly into hibernation until after the holidays… Wednesday: Medical London historian Richard Barnett and editor Mike …
After a momentary pause, literary London returns to form this week, with a couple of ace festivals headed our way. Wednesday: There are no fewer than three events on our radar for this evening: Chapman brother Jake discusses his debut novel, The Marriage of Reason …
There’s a rather eerie silence over literary London this week, but with the US election, Bonfire Night and the Lord Mayor’s Show all happening in rapid succession over the next 5 days, we suppose that this is one of those (rare?) occasions when life is …
Gift-giving season is grand (books in the book grocer’s stocking [if the grinch banker doesn't steal Christmas]), but when it comes to unadulterated bibliophilia, it’s autumn that sets our hearts aflutter. With literature festivals ongoing all over the country and a rapid rollout of the …
