London's independent bookshops need our support now more than ever as the recession bites. So, beat a retreat from...
Time Out charts London‘s 30 finest-ever peddlers of smut, filth and depravity
Burlesque star Dita Von Teese will be signing copies of her new book 'Dita: Stripteese'.
Time Out goes to the boozer to talk prostitutes, dogs and monsters with the capital's bookworms
In an industry almost entirely dominated by big boys and blockbusters, it's a delight to discover the delicate charms...
Move over,short stuff: the grown-ups have realised what fun storytelling is, and now unusual nights are popping up...
The former Python, actor and travel presenter chats about his latest diary publication 'Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988', including the filming of 'The Meaning of Life' and 'A Fish Called Wanda'.
We caught up with comedy legend Michael Palin to talk drinking, 'Spamalot' and working with the Pythons
Lionel Shriver, who won the Orange Prize for Fiction for 'We Need to Talk About Kevin', Paul Lyall, Andreya Triana and The Great Western Singers usher in the last Book Slam of the year.
Will Self isn’t your average straight white male writer. Time Out meets a man proud to be in touch with his...
The Farrago Festival of Spoken Word continues with the championships, hosted by John Paul O'Neill. Plus current UK champion Hollie McNish, two previous holders of the title, Nii Parkes and Zena Edwards, and poets AF Harrold and Idil Sukan,...
Professor Barsky, on a rare visit from the USA, will be exploring the work of Noam Chomsky, considering his role as a both analyst and activist, and trying to assess why he has come to mean so much to so many.
As part of the Slow London Project designed to inspire Londoners to challenge the cult of speed, poet Miriam Nash will lead a workshop that uses letter writing to explore creativity. Booking essential.
An exclusive and intimate interview with Nobel Prize-winning lady of letters Doris Lessing
Sathnam Sanghera tells Time Out about mental illness, the pain of arranged marriages and why not all his relatives...
In Neil Gaiman’s latest novel for children, a young boy is adopted by a graveyard’s occupants after his parents...
Glitterbest's Andreas Grant hosts a weekly poetry night.
Jim McSweeney talks Time Out through the history of the only dedicated lesbian and gay bookstore in the UK
Does Gautam Malkani‘s powerful new novel ’Londonstani‘ live up to the hype?
The award-winning author and illustrator of 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea' and the Mog picture books will be signing copies of her new book 'One Night in the Zoo'.
Sex, celebs and phobias: Time Out meets two authors making pop-up books appeal to a whole new generation of readers
Time Out discovers some surprising reading matter filed away on the British Library‘s shelves
At 52, Iain Banks has no intention of mellowing with age – the Iraq war alone has left him furious
We review the latest crop of audiobooks and nominate the best of the bunch
Smash Hits fell so far down the dumper that it closed earlier this year. But a new collection of its ’greatest...
Can James Herbert‘s new novel elicit anything like the thrill we felt devouring ’The Fog?'
Curator and writer James Putnam, a former curator of the British Museum's department of Egyptian antiquities and the author of 'Art and Artifact - The Museum as Medium', gives the Last Tuesday Society lecture on 'The Museum as Art Form'. Booking...
Writing isn't always romantic says author Alan Warner
Martin Amis‘s maligned collection of essays and short stories, ’The Second Plane‘, is more than ’a book about...
Author Roz Kaveney remembers her friend Angela Carter as the South Bank prepares to celebrate her legacy
Time Out's critics help you decide which new books are worth a read and which you should leave on the shelf
From Soviet space to travel to life after God - four of London's hottest new writers reveal the inspiration behind...
Time Out's critics pick the best books to be giving as Christmas presents: art books, film books, classical music...
Salman Rushdie on Renaissance sex, Barack Obama and his new novel ’The Enchantress of Florence‘
Author Salman Rushdie on Tottenham, being 'three-quarters Kashmiri' and George Galloway
New novels, Londostani‘ is set in Hounslow, while’Disobedience‘ centres on the Orthodox Jews of Hendon.
Poetry and music from Writer's Block, and all for charity. With Polar Bear, shortMAN and Ade Omotayo, a backing singer for Amy Winehouse. Plus open mic.All proceeds go to the Boyhood to Manhood Foundation.
From taxi driver‘s bigoted rantings to the mathematics of love.
Time Out gains exclusive access to the set of the superb TV adaptation of Jake Arnott‘s ’He Kills Coppers‘
A panel of writers, including Geoff Dyer and Adam Thirlwell, comes together for a New York Review of Books event that aims to put our entire system of literary values under the microscope. Booking advisable; email events@foyles.co.uk.
Chuck Palahniuk tells Time Out why we all love the idea of apocalypse
Time Out speaks to Robert Harris about his new gripping book 'Imperium'
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