Out of a mixture of gratitude and admiration, we turn our shop, twice a week or so, into a miniature auditorium in which authors talk about and read from their work, meet their readers, and engage in lively debate about the burning topics of the day. Find out here who’s scheduled to appear.
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Audio and Video
Missed one of our sold-out events, or longing to revisit an evening you enjoyed? This site includes a healthy selection of audio, video and pictures from previous events in the Bookshop. Browse through our calendar, or scroll down for a full listing. You can also subscribe to our events podcast via iTunes or RSS.
Attentive observers of the past ten years of British politics may not have heard of Kaya Mar, but chances are they will have seen one of his pictures – at a rally, or in an agency photograph syndicated around the world, or via a viral tweet. ...
Join us for our monthly Late Shopping Evening. Reserve your place and enjoy a 10% discount on all books, recommendations from our expert booksellers and a glass of wine to sip whilst you browse the shelves.
Son of a black father and a white mother, Thomas Chatterton Williams had always thought of himself as black. The experience of becoming a father himself to two apparently white children led him to question many of his, and our, assumptions about ...
Writing on Lorna Goodison’s poetry, Derek Walcott asks ‘What is the rare quality that has gone out of poetry that these marvellous poems restore? Joy.’ Goodison has served as the Poet Laureate of Jamaica and published twelve volumes of ...
James Shapiro’s many books on Shakespeare, including 1599, 1606, Contested Will and Shakespeare and the Jews, have pulled off the admirable trick of being, all at the same time, scholarly, authoritative, compulsively readable and best-selling. ...
Novelist, essayist, memoirist and book and film reviewer Adam Mars-Jones will be at the shop to read from and talk about his latest book Box Hill (Fitzcarraldo). On his eighteenth birthday Colin, taking a walk on the eponymous Surrey hillside, ...
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld rose to fame in their native Netherlands with their first poetry collection Calfskin. This early success is now followed by a novel The Discomfort of Evening (Faber), a portrait of a Dutch farming family torn apart by ...
Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin’s fictions, both in short and long form (A Mouthful of Birds; Fever Dream) are consistently unsettling in the way they mix the familiar and the surreal, conveying an off-centre perspective on the world we ...
Join us for our monthly Late Shopping Evening. Reserve your place and enjoy a 10% discount on all books, recommendations from our expert booksellers and a glass of wine to sip whilst you browse the shelves, plus seasonal treats from the Cake ...
Beginning in San Francisco in 1981, the era of punk and nascent gay pride, Rebecca Solnit’s latest book Recollections of My Non-Existence (Granta) is a powerful memoir of growing both as a woman and an artist, drawing on the powers of ...
Nikita Lalwani’s latest novel You People (Viking) centres on a London pizzeria where the chefs are Sri Lankan and many of the kitchen staff are illegal immigrants. Through a diverse set of characters Lalwani draws a vivid portrait of ...
In his latest book Greenery (Cape) ornithologist and environmental writer Tim Dee travels in search of spring, from South Africa via Chad and the Sahara to Spain and northern Europe. Always alert to the sounds, sights and smells of nature, his ...
Black feminist writer, organiser and activist Lola Olufemi will be in conversation about her book Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto). As feminism enters the mainstream of political thought and social action, is it in danger of being ...
In his intriguing and counterintuitive new book Slowdown (Yale) Danny Dorling argues that, contrary to what most of us believe, human life is actually slowing down, in diverse areas from birth rate to GDP to technological innovation. And, ...
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Georgia O'Keefe, Hilary Mantel, Ali Smith, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury all feature in Olivia Laing’s latest essay collection Funny Weather (Picador). In the current inclement political climate, Laing argues, art and ...
Sophie Mackintosh’s second novel Blue Ticket (Hamish Hamilton), following her Booker longlisted debut The Water Cure, is a subversive fable exploring fate, free will and motherhood. ‘The cool intensity and strange beauty of Blue Ticket is a ...
Join us for our monthly Late Shopping Evening. Reserve your place and enjoy a 10% discount on all books, recommendations from our expert booksellers and a glass of wine to sip whilst you browse the shelves, plus seasonal treats from the Cake ...
Join us for our monthly Late Shopping Evening. Reserve your place and enjoy a 10% discount on all books, recommendations from our expert booksellers and a glass of wine to sip whilst you browse the shelves, plus seasonal treats from the Cake ...
There's nothing quite like the experience of meeting the author of a favourite book. But if you weren't able to make it to one of our readings, don't despair! Explore the sights and sounds of events you may have missed – or want to
revisit – below.
Like Beethoven, the poet Ruth Padel first came to love and understand music through playing the viola. Her great grandfather, a concert pianist, studied music in Leipzig with Beethoven’s friend and contemporary. Her latest collection Beethoven ...
Will Harris’s RENDANG (Granta) is one of the most hotly-anticipated debut poetry collections of 2020. His poem ‘SAY’ was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, and his pamphlet All this is implied, from Happenstance Press, ...
The writer Samantha Harvey has won wide acclaim and a devoted following for her novels, most recently The Western Wind, set in mediavel Somerset. In her latest book The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping (Cape) she turns to philosophical ...
In the period between the wars nearby Mecklenburgh Square was home to many artists, writers and radicals. In a stunning work of rediscovery Francesca Wade focuses on five remarkable women who lived there: the modernist poet and visionary H.D; ...
The Observer called Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy ‘a landmark in twenty-first century English literature, the culmination of an artist’s unshakeable efforts to forge her own path’. The essays in her latest book Coventry explore other ...
Alexander Zevin's Liberalism at Large (Verso) is the first critical biography of the Economist newspaper, which, since 1843, has been the most tireless – and internationally influential – champion of the liberal cause anywhere in the ...
Celia Paul, born in India in 1959 and now resident in Bloomsbury is widely regarded as one of the most important artists working in Britain today. Following a passionate affair with painter Lucian Freud and figuring in several of his canvases ...
Jorge Galán’s extraordinary non-fiction novel Noviembre, now published in an English translation by Jason Wilson as November, recounts the horrifying murder of six Jesuit priests and two women during the Salvadorian civil war in 1989, dealing ...
LRB contributors and editors convened at the London Review Bookshop in the month of the paper’s 40th anniversary to reflect on the last four decades through the lens of subjects they’ve written about in the pages of the LRB. In the last ...
‘Banks get bailed out, slave owners get bailed out, the people get sold
out.’
In her latest book, Astra Taylor – ‘a rare public intellectual, utterly committed to asking humanity’s most profound questions yet entirely devoid of ...
