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    • Persephone Books © Rob Greig

      London's independent bookshops need our support now more than ever as the recession bites. So, beat a retreat from...

    • David Walliams & Quentin Blake

      • Comedian and children's writer David Walliams and illustrator Quentin Blake will be signing copies of 'Mr Stink', the second children's book on which they have collaborated.

    • London Book Club

    • London Book Club

      Time Out goes to the boozer to talk prostitutes, dogs and monsters with the capital's bookworms

    • Philip Pullman and David Eagleman

      • 'His Dark Materials' author Philip Pullman and neuroscientist David Eagleman discuss Eagleman's collection of stories on life after death, 'Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives', chaired by radio broadcaster Kirsty Lang. There will also be...

    • BEYOND WORDS FESTIVAL Michael Morpurgo

      • Accompanied by lyrical a cappella songs from Coope, Boyes and Simpson, the 'War Horse' author and former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo reads his brothers-in-arms novel 'Private Peaceful', about one night on the battlefield of Ypres during...

    • Bob Dylan & Babylon: Together Through Life

      • Drawing on his book 'The Nightingale's Code: A Poetic Study of Bob Dylan' John Gibbens will be discussing the many influences on Dylan's music, examining his more recent works, and playing some tracks.

    • Glitterbest

      • Glitterbest's Andreas Grant hosts a weekly poetry night.

    • Sir David Attenborough

      • The much-loved broadcaster and naturalist will be signing copies of his new book 'Life Stories'.

    • Brian May and Elena Vidal

      • Between Queen gigs, Brian May is an academic and a lifelong stereograph enthusiast. He and photographic historian and conservator Elena Vidal have painstakingly excavated exquisite stereo photographs of an Oxfordshire village, taken by TR...

    • Sir Stirling Moss

      • The Formula One legend will be signing copies of his new book 'All My Races' which describes every race and every car that he drove in his illustrious career.

    • The Arts Foundation Graphic Novelist Award 2010

      • The Arts Foundation has this year decided to award one of its £10,000 fellowships to a graphic novelist. The judges, Pat Mills, Posy Simmonds and Paul Gravett, will discuss the graphic novel's ascendancy in this country and announce the...

    • Zac Goldsmith

      • Environmental campaigner and MP Zac Goldsmith talks to columnist Jackie Ashley about his new book 'The Constant Economy'.

    • Islington Poetry Workshop

      • Monthly workshop offering opportunities to present and discuss your poetry in a supportive and friendly group. Bring copies of texts you want to discuss. Tutors: Frances Presley and Brian Docherty.

    • Julian Barnes: interview

    • Julian Barnes photographed at the Lord Palmerston pub, Tufnell Park

      Julian Barnes‘ new book, ’Nothing to be Frightened of‘, is a rapt meditation on death which mixes essay and...

    • Latest book reviews

    • Latest book reviews

      Time Out's critics help you decide which new books are worth a read and which you should leave on the shelf

    • Martin Amis: interview

    • Martin Amis: 'All I was doing was trying to express what I felt' (image: Tom Craig @ Bill Charles Agency)

      Martin Amis‘s maligned collection of essays and short stories, ’The Second Plane‘, is more than ’a book about...

    • A Celebration of New Departures/Poetry Olympics at Fifty

      • Launch of the two new New Departures anthologies, 'Great-Grandchildren of Albion' and 'The POE! (Poetry Olympics Enlightenment) Anthology',with introductions, Q&A, poetry, song and music performances by the four co-editors, Melanie Abrahams, John...

    • Sebastian Faulks

      • Novelist Sebastian Faulks talks with psychoanalytic psychotherapist Monica Lanman about his work, in particular his recent novels 'Human Traces' and 'Engleby'. This is the first of the season's Connecting Conversations events, which bring...

    • Jonny Woo Storytelling

      • For this week's Cabaret Carousel, performance artist Jonny Woo tells stories with accompaniment from DJ Mariano Robles and a reading by Time Out's Clubbing editor Kate Hutchinson.

    • A London story

    • A London story

      Our chain story has come to an end - read the full story here. Thanks to all those who contributed

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