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Booker Tuesday: Did you bound out of bed this morning breathless with excitement in anticipation of sitting at your computer and continuously refreshing the Man Booker website all day? Just us then? The winner won’t be announced until this evening – so hold your horses and head on over to the London Review Bookshop for a discussion of Mohamed Choukri’s In Tangier, a recollection of Choukri’s experiences in 1970s Tangier and his interactions with the many members of the Western counterculture who sought refuge there (7pm, £6). more ›

Tuesday: The theme for this week should be hot: hotly tipped writers, hot topics, and, well, if not hot, then warm-ish weather. Junot Diaz was named one of the New Yorker’s 20 Writers for the 21st Century, and his latest, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, is a 2007 finalist for the American National Book Critics Circle Award. You can hear Diaz reading from his acclaimed novel tonight at the Southbank Centre. 7.45pm, £7.50 tickets, £3.75 concessions. more ›