In light of the continuing coronavirus pandemic, all live events and late shopping evenings at the bookshop have been cancelled until further notice. We will endeavour to keep the conversation flowing with livestreamed events, remotely recorded podcasts and written Q&As on our website. You can buy a limited selection of our favourite books and bestsellers here. Watch this space, keep in touch and keep well.
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.
The London Review Bookshop is also available for hire; email or call (020) 7269 9030 for more information.
We have wheelchair access to the ground floor. If you have any queries regarding disability access at external venues please give us a call.
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.
Join us for a unique event to celebrate the finale of Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet, Summer.
Ali Smith’s quartet of season novels is unashamedly political, driven by current affairs. The first of them, Autumn, was published shortly after the ...
Igbo and Tamil writer and artist Akwaeke Emezi's mesmerising first novel Freshwater was published to universal acclaim in 2018, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Their second book was Pet, a novel for young adults that ...
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.
Five Dials 57, ‘To Leave and to Be Left Behind’, explores the imaginative space of the journey – where it can take us and how it can change us. Guest-edited by Sophie Mackintosh, it brings together a range of playful, intimate and ...
To celebrate the publication of Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?, a new collection of Jenny Diski’s LRB essays, chosen and introduced by Mary-Kay Wilmers, Deborah Friedell talked to Jenny Diski’s daughter, journalist Chloe Diski, ...
In Sinews of War and Trade (Verso) Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, explores the vital importance of ports and shipping in defining the new battlegrounds of the 21st century. In particular, ...
Although our events programme is on hold at the moment, we’re delighted that Danny Dorling and Zoe Williams could get together virtually to record this podcast in lieu of the planned event.
Although our events programme is on hold at the moment, we’re delighted that Lola Olufemi and Momtaza Mehri could get together virtually to produce this written exchange in lieu of the planned event.
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 ...
Although this event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis, we’re delighted to be able to bring you this podcast with novelist, essayist, memoirist and book and film reviewer Adam Mars-Jones and poet Richard Scott, to celebrate ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
