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.
By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside, but two years ago, she began to feel that she was only seeing half the picture. She needed to get inside the groups to truly understand ...
In Day Sleeper (MACK) artist Sam Contis presents a new way of looking at the work of iconic American photographer Dorothea Lange. Drawing on Lange’s extensive archive, and featuring many works never before seen in public, Day Sleeper ...
Leïla Slimani was the first Moroccan woman to win France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt for her novel Lullaby. Her latest book Sex and Lies (Faber) departs from fiction to explore the lives of and give a voice to the young women of Morocco, ...
Anne Enright’s latest novel Actress (Cape) tells the story of the relationship between Irish theatre legend Katherine O'Dell and her daughter Norah, as told by Norah herself. Early stardom in Hollywood, triumphs and tragedies on the stages of ...
Marking publication of the exploratory anthology Of Mud and Flame: a Penda's Fen Sourcebook, dramatist and screenwriter David Rudkin will be in conversation about his hugely influential 1974 television drama.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Join LRB contributors and editors at the London Review Bookshop in the month of the paper’s 40th anniversary, as they reflect on the last four decades through the lens of subjects they’ve written about in the pages of the LRB. On Thursday 17 ...
