Time Out charts London‘s 30 finest-ever peddlers of smut, filth and depravity
Will Self isn’t your average straight white male writer. Time Out meets a man proud to be in touch with his...
In an industry almost entirely dominated by big boys and blockbusters, it's a delight to discover the delicate charms...
We asked you to tell us about your local literary haven. Here's what you said.
Performance poetry and live music with Simon Munnery, Tim Clare, Joshua Idehen, AF Harrold and others.
'Newsnight' journalist Mason discusses workers' struggles as explored in his book 'Live Working or Die Fighting'.
We caught up with comedy legend Michael Palin to talk drinking, 'Spamalot' and working with the Pythons
Time Out goes to the boozer to talk prostitutes, dogs and monsters with the capital's bookworms
Broadcaster and comedian Jon Holmes talks Time Out through five of the best London-set tales in his new book 'Status...
Meg Rosoff’s coastal East Anglia of 1962 is a grey, grim and ghastly place to be, and the boys’ boarding...
Does Gautam Malkani‘s powerful new novel ’Londonstani‘ live up to the hype?
Performance poetry, broken beats and sonic sorcery with Michael Horovitz, Polar Bear and Last Mango in Paris.
Coffee shops and cafés have always been central to London‘s literary culture. Time Out round up the most important
London Literature Festival programmer Martin Colthorpe reveals the diverse delights in this year's event, which...
A chronicle of post-war West Indian immigration to Britain, Sam Selvon’s 1956 novel ‘The Lonely...
Timothy Dashwood’s life is one of unhappy privilege. He is bullied at his exclusive west London school, while...
Early in his 1991 memoir, ‘Patrimony’, Philip Roth recalls an unplanned visit to the grave of his mother,...
Time Out has sniffed out the places where rude books with ruder prices are flying off the (top) shelf
With Niall O'Sullivan and Rhian Edwards.
New novels, Londostani‘ is set in Hounslow, while’Disobedience‘ centres on the Orthodox Jews of Hendon.
Who needs another book about Shakespeare? The author of this slim volume of biography asks this question himself, and...
Time Out talks to Paul Burston about Hollywood, celebrity and gay identity
Martin Amis‘s maligned collection of essays and short stories, ’The Second Plane‘, is more than ’a book about...
Irvine Welsh tells Time Out about his eventful past-life as a Londoner
As Dalai fever hits Europe with the fourteenth Dalai Lama on another world tour, Tibet has never been more topical....
Self‘s new novel, ’The Book of Dave‘, enters the mind of a cabbie. We join the author on a journey through the...
An exclusive and intimate interview with Nobel Prize-winning lady of letters Doris Lessing
A new series of biographies of ’books that shook the world‘ impresses Time Out
The 'Fight Club' author reads from his new novel 'Snuff'.
From Soviet space to travel to life after God - four of London's hottest new writers reveal the inspiration behind...
When Aztec priests or Tudor lawyers become detectives and prowl mean streets, there is an element of fraud in the...
Don‘t throw away your old recipe books, Time Out finds they could make an equally tasty investment
Peter Cox presents an illustrated talk based on his new book about the radio ballads.
Sathnam Sanghera tells Time Out about mental illness, the pain of arranged marriages and why not all his relatives...
Following a harrowing incident at a New York subway station, an unnamed, thirtysomething woman endeavours to escape...
Smash Hits fell so far down the dumper that it closed earlier this year. But a new collection of its ’greatest...
Will Stopha explores the loneliness of technology using comedy, poetry and film.
Time Out admires Julie Myerson‘s ’The Story of You‘
The illustrations scattered through Kitty Hauser’s new book are not the family snaps one expects to find in a...
With Iranian and European writers including Ziba Karbassi and Wlodek Fenrych.
Salon selective with James Frey reading from his novel 'Bright Shiny Morning', singer-songwriter Bryn Christopher and slam champion Byron Vincent.
As admirers of the richly lauded Southern-based writer’s ‘Blood Meridian’ or ‘All the Pretty...
When his wife, Michelle, leaves him for another man, taking their son along too, cabbie Dave Rudman falls to pieces....
From the winner of the inaugural ABC Fiction Award comes this engrossing and original first novel about a sadistic...
Benny’s parents’ grave is a kitsch heap, which annoys the hell out of librarian Desirée whenever...
Poet laureate Andrew Motion gets down with the kids at a live poetry slam
As a uniquely communicative critic, teacher, broadcaster and poet, Tom Paulin has made his most flamboyant marks as a...
Writing isn't always romantic says author Alan Warner
This year is the fiftieth anniversary of Jack Kerouac‘s ’On the Road‘. Here, by way of celebration, fellow Beat...
‘Accidents in the Home’, the title of Tessa Hadley’s first novel, could also serve as a description...
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