London Lit Weekend at Kings Place

Kings Place launches a new, two-day literary festival this weekend, featuring a top notch line-up of authors. Including the darkly humorous and moving British novellist, Jonathan Coe (Oct 6, 6.30pm), who is renowned for 'The Rotter's Club' and 'Dwarves of Death', which were both adapted to television. Jeremy Paxman (Oct 6, 2pm), the well-established and ruthless, but widely loved, BBC 'Newsnight' journalist, author and presenter also appears, along with award-winning Turkish author Elif Shafak (Oct 5, 3.30pm), whose work has been translated in over 30 languages, and many more. For further info, visit kingsplace.co.uk.