Jamfaced waits oh-so-very-patiently for his meal at Franklin’s in East Dulwich and debates how long is too long to wait for your food. The conclusion? “…fifteen or twenty minutes is the limit between ordering and my starter turning up, unless they are plying me with …
Westminster Council has unveiled what are thought to be the first two recharging points for cars in the UK. The borough suffers from the UK’s highest levels of air pollution caused by the amount of traffic flowing in and out of central London. Electric cars …
Iain Hollingshead has won an esteemed literary award with his first novel: Iain Hollingshead has won the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2006 with his first novel Twenty Something. Now in its 14th year, the award is given to the passage considered to …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghoutir has fourteen books under his belt and has been described by Edward Said as “one of the finest existential …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Tonight Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award way back …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday Based on his columns for McSweeny’s, Nick Hornby’s The Complete Polysyllabic Spree seems rather a lazy excuse for a “meta” book. Hornby (pictured) explores …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. It’s a busy old week, so let’s get on: Tonight May Contain Graphic Content poses the question “Are graphic novels a complex and creative new …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday To eat or not to eat? Professor of Ethics Peter Singer, author of “Animal Liberation” and “How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday Colm Tóibín’s first collection of short stories, Mothers and Sons, is a meditation on the dramas surrounding that most elemental of relationships (read an …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Is it Booker Longlist season again? Drum roll please… Peter Carey Theft: A Love Story Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss Robert Edric Gathering the …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday If know your manga from your anime, your Akira from your Ghost in the Shell, tonight’s Tokyopop Manga looks set to draw a dedicated …
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