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1 event

19:00
Talk
Is Monogamy Dead?
Pints of Knowledge · EC1A
£20.25Tickets

Thu 24 Sept

4 events

18:30
Talk
Jordan Prosser in conversation with Barry Pierce
Daunt Books · W1U
£6Tickets
19:00
Talk
The Breaking OF The English Working Class: A Panel Discussion
Foyles · WC2H
£8Tickets
19:00
Talk
For Peace! Book Launch
MayDay Rooms · EC4Y
Tickets
19:30
Talk
Omar El Akkad in Conversation
Southbank Centre · SE1
£26Tickets

Fri 25 Sept

1 event

19:00
Talk
A Bigger Life: Louise O'Neill and Marian Keyes at St James's Piccadilly
Foyles · WC2H
£8Tickets

Sat 26 Sept

1 event

18:00
Talk
Vision Festival: An Emotional Education
The School of Life · WC1N
£11.19Tickets

Mon 28 Sept

3 events

18:30
Talk
Eclipsing the West? China's tech titans and the new global power shift
LSE · WC2A
FreeTickets
19:00
Talk
Guilty Pleasure: Patricia Nilsson in Conversation with Shon Faye
Foyles · WC2H
£8Tickets
19:00
Talk
Panel discussion: China’s Global Strategy Under Xi Jinping
Frontline Club · W2
£5.94Tickets

Tue 29 Sept

2 events

19:00
Talk
Alexandra Shulman in conversation with Katy Hessel
Daunt Books · W1U
£12Tickets
19:00
Talk
Traumatized: Catherine Liu in Conversation with William Davis
Foyles · WC2H
£8Tickets

Wed 30 Sept

3 events

17:15
Talk
Digital Intimacy: Young Women, Gendered Modernities and Aspirations in Inter-Asia
SOAS · WC1H
Tickets
18:30
Talk
The Art Worlds of Spain and the United Kingdom
Instituto Cervantes London · WC2R
FreeTickets
19:00
Talk
Venus Vanishing: Rebecca Birrell in Conversation with Freya Bromley
Foyles · WC2H
£8Tickets

Thu 1 Oct

4 events

19:00
Talk
Edward Chisholm
Daunt Books · W1U
£12Tickets
19:00
Talk
Everyman: Antara Haldar in Conversation
Foyles · WC2H
£8Tickets
19:00
Talk
Human Rights in Action: A conversation with SOAS Alumni
SOAS · WC1H
Tickets
20:00
Talk
The Fallen: The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland’s Legacy of Silence by Dr Louise Brangan
Irish Cultural Centre · W6
Tickets

Sun 4 Oct

1 event

19:30
Talk
David Shrigley: Creative Writing
Intelligence Squared · WC2N
£19Tickets

Mon 5 Oct

1 event

19:00
Talk
Black Bag: Luke Kennard in Conversation with Ben Pester
Foyles · WC2H
£8Tickets

Tue 6 Oct

3 events

17:30
Talk
Explorations in South and Southeast Asian photography: A roundtable discussion on three ongoing research projects
SOAS · WC1H
Tickets
18:30
Talk
Every last girl: a journey to educate India’s forgotten daughters
LSE · WC2A
FreeTickets
19:00
Talk
Perilous Enchantment: Sarah Clegg in Conversation with Ronald Hutton
Foyles · WC2H
£8Tickets

Wed 7 Oct

5 events

17:15
Talk
The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories
SOAS · WC1H
Tickets
17:30
Talk
Sixty-six years on - how can Nigeria escape the fragility trap and unlock its potential?
LSE · WC2A
FreeTickets
17:30
Talk
‘An evening with Alex Wade – Conservator’
Royal Society of Chemistry · W1J
Venue address: Chatham Historic Dockyard, Chatham, ME4 4TZ
£10Tickets
19:00
Talk
The Two Roberts: Damian Barr in Conversation with James Cahill
Foyles · WC2H
£8Tickets
19:30
Talk
An Evening with Katherine Rundell
Intelligence Squared · WC2N
£19.99Tickets

Thu 8 Oct

2 events

17:00
Talk
K-book Festival 2026: Kim Cho-Yeop in Conversation with Barry Pierce
Foyles · WC2H
£8Tickets
19:00
Talk
Damian Barr in conversation with Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Daunt Books · W1U
£7Tickets

Tue 13 Oct

1 event

19:00
Talk
Book Launch: The Age OF Hobsbawm by Emile Chabal
Housmans · N1
£163Tickets

Thu 15 Oct

3 events

18:30
Talk
The republic of freedom: a new political economy of freedom
LSE · WC2A
FreeTickets
18:30
Talk
The republic of innovation: a new political economy of freedom
LSE · WC2A
FreeTickets
19:00
Talk
Izabella Scott in conversation with Lucy Scholes
Daunt Books · W1U
£7Tickets

Fri 16 Oct

1 event

18:30
Talk
Contemporary Spanish Literature with David Uclés
Instituto Cervantes London · WC2R
£6.13Tickets

Sun 18 Oct

4 events

11:00
Talk
OzLit Festival 2026
Foyles · WC2H
£35Tickets
12:30
Talk
OzLit Festival: Alexis Wright - A Life in Writing
Foyles · WC2H
£10Tickets
16:30
Talk
OzLit Festival: A Family Haunting
Foyles · WC2H
£10Tickets
18:00
Talk
OzLit Festival: Out of the Shadows: Hidden Lives Illuminated
Foyles · WC2H
£10Tickets

Tue 20 Oct

3 events

18:30
Talk
The good, the black and the boujee: how black Britain became middle class
LSE · WC2A
FreeTickets
18:30
Talk
Ghosts, Ghouls & Spirits of Medieval Britain
Seed Talks London · SW9
Location unverified
£17Tickets
19:30
Talk
Michael Lewis: Blockers
Southbank Centre · SE1
£29Tickets

Wed 21 Oct

2 events

19:00
Talk
Nao-Cola Yamazaki in conversation with Sharlene Teo
Daunt Books · W1U
£12Tickets
19:30
Talk
Ta-Nehisi Coates & Tareq Baconi: On Freedom
Southbank Centre · SE1
£29Tickets

Thu 22 Oct

2 events

19:00
Talk
Building The Book: Jacqueline Wilson in Conversation with Nick Sharratt
Foyles · WC2H
£8Tickets
19:30
Talk
An Evening with Pachinko author Min Jin Lee: American Hagwon
Intelligence Squared · WC2N
£19.99Tickets

Fri 23 Oct

1 event

19:45
Talk
Indie Night: October
Southbank Centre · SE1
£17Tickets

Sat 24 Oct

3 events

15:00
Talk
Dua Lipa & Zadie Smith: White Teeth
Southbank Centre · SE1
£29Tickets
16:00
Talk
Words In, Words Out: A Night in With Koestler Arts
Southbank Centre · SE1
£18Tickets
20:00
Talk
Dua Lipa & Mustafa: Nour
Southbank Centre · SE1
£29Tickets

Sun 25 Oct

2 events

19:30
Talk
Dua Lipa & Patti Smith: Bread of Angels
Southbank Centre · SE1
£29Tickets
19:45
Talk
Go All In: Gaming and the Power of Story
Southbank Centre · SE1
£17Tickets

Tue 27 Oct

1 event

19:00
Talk
Doom Painting: A.K. Blakemore in Conversation with Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Foyles · WC2H
£8Tickets

Wed 28 Oct

1 event

19:45
Talk
Service95 Book Club: Translated Fiction Showcase
Southbank Centre · SE1
£17Tickets

Thu 29 Oct

1 event

19:00
Talk
Teresa Krasny in conversation with Jackie Wullschläger
Daunt Books · W1U
£12Tickets

Fri 30 Oct

1 event

19:45
Talk
The Funny Business of Serious Literature
Southbank Centre · SE1
£21Tickets

Sat 31 Oct

4 events · 3 rows

12:00
Talk
Service95 and English Pen: Censorship Live!
Southbank Centre · SE1
£17Tickets
14:00
Talk
Counterpoints Masterclass with Hisham Matar
Southbank Centre · SE1
£46Tickets
19:45
Talk
Service95 Book Club: Rewriting Male Tenderness
Southbank Centre · SE1
£17Tickets

Sun 1 Nov

2 events

16:00
Talk
The Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist Readings
Southbank Centre · SE1
£17Tickets
20:00
Talk
Hanif & Carlo Kureishi: Are You With Me Now?
Southbank Centre · SE1
£29Tickets

Mon 2 Nov

3 events

18:30
Talk
Governing Growth: the postwar transformations of capitalism and democracy
LSE · WC2A
FreeTickets
19:00
Talk
Pick Your Bottles: Dan Keeling in Conversation with John Niven
Foyles · WC2H
£8Tickets
19:30
Talk
An Evening with Karl Ove Knausgaard: Arendal
Intelligence Squared · WC2N
£19.99Tickets

Sun 8 Nov

3 events

10:30
Talk
Irish Folklore & Witchcraft Summit
Seed Talks London · SW9
Location unverified
£24Tickets
10:30
Talk
Irish Folklore & Witchcraft Summit [ire]
Seed Talks London · SW9
Location unverified
£26Tickets
19:30
Talk
The Booker Prize 2026 Shortlist Readings
Southbank Centre · SE1
£29Tickets

Tue 10 Nov

1 event

19:30
Talk
Playback Poetics: London Review of Books
Southbank Centre · SE1
£13Tickets

Wed 11 Nov

1 event

13:30
Talk
Green Careers Conference 2026
Linnean Society of London · W1J
£9.38Tickets

Thu 12 Nov

1 event

18:30
Talk
Echoes of the Past, Voices of the Present
Armenian Institute London · EC1N
FreeTickets

Mon 16 Nov

1 event

18:30
Talk
Non-binary lives
LSE · WC2A
FreeTickets

Wed 18 Nov

1 event

13:00
Talk
Diversifying Children’s Books in the Classroom: Beyond the Secret Garden
British Library · NW1
FreeTickets

Thu 19 Nov

2 events

09:00
Talk
Guerrilla Tactics conference 2026
RIBA · W1B
Tickets
19:00
Talk
Case BY Case: Jamieson Webster & Patricia Gherovici with Rachel Connolly
Foyles · WC2H
£8Tickets

Mon 23 Nov

2 events

18:30
Talk
Investigating moral status
LSE · WC2A
FreeTickets
19:00
Talk
Resistance: A History of Disability in Britain
British Library · NW1
£13Tickets

Tue 24 Nov

1 event

19:00
Talk
Mary Lawson in conversation with Graham Norton
Daunt Books · W1U
£12Tickets

Wed 25 Nov

1 event

19:00
Talk
An African History of Africa, with Zeinab Badawi
Intelligence Squared · WC2N
£19Tickets