Events
As well as selling books, the London Review Bookshop features events. Readings, discussions, talks and debates make the London Review Bookshop a vital centre for intellectual exchange.
Unless otherwise stated, all events take place at the London Review Bookshop at 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL, and tickets are £6. Subscribers to the London Review of Books should call us for a discount, on 020 7269 9030.
Free wine after each event.
March
J.M.G. Le Clézio
Thursday 11 March at 7.00 p.m.
Hailed by the Swedish Academy as his ‘definitive breakthrough as a novelist’ and available for the first time in English translation, Desert (Atlantic) spans the 20th century, ranging from the Nor...
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Iain McGilchrist
Thursday 18 March at 7.00 p.m.
In The Master and his Emissary (Yale), Iain McGilchrist argues that left-brain thinking – categorical, precise and decontextualising – has usurped the role of the holistic, contextualising and cre...
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Peter Campbell and Julian Bell
Wednesday 24 March at 7.00 p.m.
Julian Bell and Peter Campbell have both worked as painters and written about art – Julian Bell most recently in Mirror of the World (Thames and Hudson), Peter Campbell in At... (Hyphen Press), a collection of his contributions to the LRB. They will talk about things that pa...
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April
Jim Crace
Thursday 1 April at 7.00 p.m.
In All That Follows (Picador), Lennie Lessing is a jazzman taking a break. His glory days seem to be behind him, his body is letting him down, and rather than continue to take on the world, he re...
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Previous Events
Chronic City - Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Tom McCarthy
Thursday 7 January 2010
In conversation with the novelist Tom McCarthy, Jonathan Lethem read from Chronic City and discussed, inter alia, Manhattan’s virtuality, the inspiration behind the character of Perkus Tooth, the price of things, and talking animals.
Alan Bennett - The Habit of Art
Monday 7 December 2009
With his new play about Auden and Britten, The Habit of Art, playing to packed houses at the National Theatre, Alan Bennett visited the Bookshop to read from his introduction to the play and to answer an eclectic range of questions from the audience.
Writing Family History with Jeremy Harding, John Lanchester, Nicholas Spice and Mary-Kay Wilmers
Sunday 15 November 2009
LRB editor Mary-Kay Wilmers, and contributors Jeremy Harding and John Lanchester, discussed the pleasures and pitfalls of writing family histories, under the chairmanship of LRB publisher Nicholas Spice.
Video Clips
Alan Bennett on The Habit of Art at the London Review Bookshop, 7 December 2009
As part of the London Review of Books’ 30th anniversary celebrations, the London Review Bookshop was delighted to welcome Alan Bennett, talking about his new play The Habit of Art.
Writing Family History with Jeremy Harding, John Lanchester, Nicholas Spice and Mary-Kay Wilmers at the London Review Bookshop, 15 November 2009
How do writers investigate their own pasts and shape them into a narrative, one which other people will find interesting? Nicholas Spice, the publisher of the LRB, chaired a discussion with Mary-Kay Wilmers, the paper's editor, whose book The Eitingons is out next month; Jeremy Harding, the author of the memoir Mother Country; and John Lanchester, the author of Family Romance.
Zachary Leader in conversation with Martin Amis at the London Review Bookshop, 28 November 2006
Zachary Leader discussed The Life of Kingsley Amis with Kingsley's son, the novelist and journalist Martin Amis, presenting a full picture of his subject's childhood, school days, and life as a teacher, professional author, husband, father and lover.
The Israel Lobby: Does It Have Too Much Influence On US Foreign Policy?, 28 September 2006
This debate took place at Cooper Union in New York City and was captured by ScribeMedia on behalf of the London Review of Books. A transcript is also available from the ScribeMedia site.