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.
Professor Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays Richard Sennett explores displacement in the metropolis through two vibrant historical moments: mid-nineteenth-century ...
Join translator Daniel Hahn and novelists Tessa Hadley and Ariana Harwicz to discuss the dark art of fiction writing. Ariana Harwicz is one of the leading lights of contemporary Argentinian literature, and Die, My Love, a gripping thriller set ...
Joshua Cohen, one of Granta magazines 'Best Young American Writers' for 2017, will be at the shop to read from and talk about his latest novel Moving Kings, published by Fitzcarraldo. Described by James Wood in the New Yorker as 'A Jewish ...
Join us for our monthly Late Shopping evening on Wednesday 4 October, 6 - 8 p.m.
We're utterly delighted to be hosting Kate Young, whose first cookbook The Little Library Cookbook we've long been looking forward to. Come along on the night to ...
Author of the multi-award winning fiction Fugitive Pieces, 'the most important book I have read for forty years' (John Berger), Canadian poet and novelist Anne Michaels presents two new titles in this very special event, her only London ...
Epic in scope and ambition, Yuri Slezkine’s The House of Government tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin’s ...
Audre Lorde (1934-92) described herself as ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. Born in New York, she had her first poem published while still at school and her last in the year of her death in 1992. Her extraordinary belief in the power ...
Join us for a screening of Salt of the Earth, the remarkable blacklisted American drama from 1954, plus Q&A with Howard Caygill, Professor Of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University and author of On Resistance.
Iain Sinclair has been writing about London for most of his adult life, and if any of us can even begin to understand this peculiar sort of city that we sort of call a sort of home, then it's with Sinclair that we begin. The Last London ...
What do we think about when we think about football? Football is about so many things: memory, history, place, social class, gender, family identity, tribal identity, national identity, the nature of groups. It is essentially collaborative, even ...
Join us for a screening of Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 classic The Battle of Algiers.
The Battle of Algiers tells the story of the life-and-death struggle between the French colonial government of Algeria and the Algerian Liberation Front, the FLN. ...
Join us for a screening of José Luis Cuerda's The Butterfly's Tongue.
Adapted from a trio of short fictions by Manuel Rivas, The Butterfly's Tongue is a Galician coming-of-age tale that follows the friendship between Moncho, a senstive young ...
To mark the 30th anniversary of James Baldwin's death, join us for an extremely rare screening of I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1980), presented by Dick Fontaine, the film's director and a friend of Baldwin's.
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.
Philip Hoare, who won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2009 for his magnificent Leviathan, continues his exploration of our watery world with RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR (Fourth Estate). In searching the past and present for stories encapsulating the human ...
Anna Minton, Reader in Architecture at the University of East London and author of Ground Control, asks, in her latest book Big Capital (Penguin), a very big question: 'Who is London For?' As the cost of housing spirals upwards, putting this ...
Andrew O’Hagan’s latest book The Secret Life brings together three of his finest long essays, each of them investigating the strange, vexed intersections and conflicts between the virtual and the real, and what they mean for the nature and ...
PalFest, The Palestinian Festival of Literature, which brings writers from around the world to Palestine to read to and meet their readers, celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. This Is Not a Border is an anthology of essays, poems and ...
Paul Beatty, winner of 2016's Man Booker Prize, was in conversation with Lola Okolosie, Guardian journalist and editor-at-large of Media Diversified. The Sellout (Oneworld) was the first novel by a US author to win the Booker; Beatty's other ...
Writer, filmmaker, architectural critic and essayist Jonathan Meades was in conversation with his publisher, John Mitchinson (Unbound Books) to discuss his career in literature, criticism and journalism. Meades’ literary works include novels
To celebrate the publication of Vanishing Points, a new showcase of writing from El Salvador, Tania Pleitez Vela and Claudia Castro Luna were at the shop to discuss the anthology, which aims to challenge the traditional concepts of nationality ...
In Future Sex, Witt captures the experiences of going to bars alone, online dating, and hooking up with strangers. After moving to San Francisco, she decides to say yes to everything and to find her own path. From public health clinics to cafe ...
Laurent Binet, who won the Prix Goncourt du premier roman for his first novel HHhH, was at the shop to read from and discuss his second, The 7th Function of Language (Harvill Secker). The new book is a global conspiracy thriller encompassing the ...
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