Chiswick Book Festival kicked off on Friday in fine style by giving Sir Terry Pratchett the chance to promote his latest book, I Shall Wear Midnight aimed at his younger readers. He was in a sprightly mood and didn’t disappoint the faithful West London fans …
Family shows at the National Theatre should have songs, big set pieces, gripping adventure, amazing stunts, some puppets and moral lessons. Nation has these things. Less likely subjects for family shows at the National Theatre include swine flu, the 2004 tsunami, white colonial guilt, self-hating …
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 …
January is, as every primary school kid knows, named after Janus, the double-headed Roman god of gates, doors, beginnings and endings. It’s appropriate, then, that this month will see so many of both; we mourn the passing of Lost (Wed 10pm C4) and Rome, and …
Over on Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow is trying to be positive about the not so new news that Viacom is going to riddle Tottenham Court Road tube with video ads. 66 screens are going to be installed with easily updated advertising and (more worryingly) audio! …
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