London Review BookshopNew/Used: new books, used books Web site: http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/ Events: http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/events (updated February 14) Amenities: food/drink Description: Whether you live in London or are just visiting, come down to Bloomsbury and see the London Review Bookshop for yourself. 14 Bury Place is conveniently located, just round the corner from the British Museum and five minutes from Covent Garden. The shop is quiet, light and spacious, ideally suited to anyone who likes to browse for books in peace. It has particularly strong sections in fiction, poetry, general literature, history, politics and current affairs. The shop expanded in 2007 to make room for the London Review Cake Shop (http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/cake), a place to meet, talk, read and enjoy the best tea, coffee and cake in Bloomsbury.
The London Review Bookshop runs a very strong events programme, details of which are posted on the website (and usually on this LibraryThing page too).
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No events found. Go ahead and add an event. Past eventsAnne Enright (March 6 at 7:00pm) "The stories in Taking Pictures (Cape) are snapshots of the body in trouble: in denial, in extremis and in love. Mapping the messy connections between people – and their failures to connect – the stories capture their characters in the grainy texture of real life, from Dublin ... (more)Fiona Sampson: Translation, Transformation (March 16 at 5:00pm) Fiona Sampson, Tony Frazer, Eric Ormsby and Amarjit Chandan. The encounter with another language, let alone its poetry, forces us to reconsider our own writing and thinking; even our own ideas of music, emotion or poetic pleasure. Translating and being translated, then, are among the most challenging - and liberating - of poetic activities. In this session, our ... (more) Louis de Bernières (March 19 at 7:00pm) " The Partisan’s Daughter (Harvill Secker) is the story of an unlikely romance between an unhappily married man and a young Serbian woman. He is increasingly drawn into her world, from her childhood as the daughter of one of Tito’s partisans to her more recent dangerous and ... (more)London International Documentary Film Festival Launch Event (March 27 at 7:00pm) The first in-depth study of its kind, Films of Fact explores the fascinating development of science on screen since 1903. The latest title in Wallflower Press’s Nonfictions series, the book discusses important films such as Cheese Mites (1903) and World of Plenty (1943), as well as seminal television ... (more)A.L. Kennedy (April 16 at 7:00pm) A. L. Kennedy’s fifth novel Day (Vintage), in which Alfred Day looks back at his time as a tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber, is a powerful novel about the brutal simplicities of war – of horror, and the camaraderie found in the closeness to death – and a moving exploration of the complexities ... (more)Interested: tianyi Added by FlossieT. R.W. Johnson (April 22 at 7:00pm) R. W. Johnson will talk about and answer questions on the recent momentous election in Zimbabwe: how it all worked, what has happened since and what relevance it has for the decay of the liberation movements across Southern Africa. R.W. Johnson has established a large reputation as a writer on southern ... (more)Sebastian Barry in conversation with Richard Mason (May 1 at 7:00pm) The Secret Scripture (Faber) ) is a follow up to Sebastian Barry’s A Long Long Way, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker and IMPAC prizes and winner of the Kerry Group Prize for Irish Fiction. Nearing her hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future as the mental hospital where ... (more)Interested: antoinetta Added by FlossieT. David Lodge (May 8 at 7:00pm) When the university merged his Department of Linguistics with English, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. He misses the purposeful routine of the academic year, and has lost his appetite for research. But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction ... (more)Mike Marqusee (All Power to the Imagination!) (May 14 at 7:00pm) In If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an anti-Zionist Jew (Verso), Mike Marqusee has written an eloquent and deeply felt memoir exploring his complex relationship with his Jewish identity, from his upbringing in 1960's Jewish-American suburbia, his anti-war and pro-Palestinian activism on the British ... (more)David Runciman (May 15 at 7:00pm) What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? In Political Hypocrisy (Princeton), David Runciman looks at the problems of sincerity and truth in politics through lessons drawn from some of the great truth-tellers in modern political thought – Hobbes, Jefferson, Bentham and Orwell ... (more)Lorrie Moore - EVENT SOLD OUT (May 27 at 7:00pm) Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. Her ferociously funny, soulful stories tell of the gulf between men and women, the loneliness of the broken-hearted and the yearned-for, impossible intimacies we crave. Moore pays a rare visit to the ... (more)Henri Lefebvre and the Critique of Everyday Life - EVENT SOLD OUT (May 29 at 7:00pm) Henri Lefebvre’s three volume magnum opus Critique of Everyday Life makes the radical case for analysing moments of everyday life, from work to leisure to family life, to see how they are colonised by capitalism and how, as a result, people become alienated from each other. It’s been lauded as a ... (more)Andrew O'Hagan (June 5 at 7:00pm) To coincide with the publication of Andrew O’Hagan’s collected non-fiction, The Atlantic Ocean (Faber), the novelist and LRB contributing editor will be in conversation with Observer writer Gaby Wood. O’Hagan’s essays and reported pieces have examined the cultures of Britain and America since ... (more)Rory Stewart on international intervention (June 9 at 7:00pm) Rory Stewart. 'Afghanistan rhetoric and reality': Rory Stewart will speak about international intervention. He is the author of The Places in Between, which describes his walk across Afghanistan in 2002. His second book, The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq, chronicles his time ... (more)James Wood (June 25 at 7:00pm) In the tradition of E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera’s The Art of the Novel, Woods’ How Fiction Works (Cape) is a searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterisation, dialogue, realism, and style. How can we ‘know’ a fictional character? ... (more)Interested: roadtomandalay Added by FlossieT. La Fontaine (July 3 at 7:00pm) La Fontaine is still the most often quoted French writer. His Fables are an integral part of French culture, repeatedly rewritten and reinterpreted in dance, music and the visual arts. They are equally remarkable for their formal perfection and for the understanding of human nature embodied in them. Gordon ... (more)Aleksandar Hemon (August 19 at 7:00pm) The Lazarus Project (Picador) is an epic narrative born from a historical event – the 1908 killing of a 19 year old Jewish immigrant by the chief of Chicago police. The story follows Vladimir Brik, a Bosnian-American writer, who, a century later, gets funding to travel to Eastern Europe to unearth ... (more)Tariq Ali (September 11 at 7:00pm) Tariq Ali discusses The Duel - Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power. Tariq Ali has long been acknowledged as a leading commentator on Pakistan. In The Duel – Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power (Simon & Schuster), he combines deep understanding of the country’s history with extensive firsthand research and political judgement to weigh the prospects of those ... (more)Interested: twp77 Added by FlossieT. Rosemary Hill (September 16 at 7:00pm) Augustus Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects, inventor of the Gothic Revival and revealed as the designer of Big Ben and much of the Houses of Parliament. By the age of 21, he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and widowed; before he was 30 he had designed 22 churches and 3 cathedrals; at ... (more)Interested: lydiasbooks Added by FlossieT. Janice Galloway in conversation with Jenny Diski (September 24 at 7:00pm) Janice Galloway is one of Britain’s most celebrated and admired novelists, praised for her ability to depict imagined lives in all their complexities. She has turned this skill on herself for her first memoir, This is Not About Me (Granta), in which she writes about her first twelve years growing up ... (more)Reading Aloud (October 1 at 7:00pm) A selection of audio recordings from five years of live events at the London Review Bookshop is about to go online. Raise a glass with us to celebrate its launch, discover archive materials of readings, debates and performances as you browse the shelves, and buy books at a 10% discount.
Benjamin Black (John Banville) (October 2 at 7:00pm) Commissioned as a high-profile serial by the New York Times Magazine, The Lemur is a new stand-alone thriller by Banville’s alter ego, Benjamin Black, author of the two stylish Quirke novels. ‘Big Bill’ Mulholland is an Irish-American electronics billionaire and an ex-CIA operative, for whom everything ... (more)Michael Holroyd (October 9 at 7:00pm) Ellen Terry was a natural actress who filled the theatre with a magical radiance. The Times called her the ‘uncrowned queen of England’ but behind her public success lay a darker story. She eloped with a friend of Oscar Wilde at 21 and gave birth to two illegitimate children. But her greatest partnership ... (more)Artesian (October 23 at 7:00pm) John Berger.; Rosalyn Driscoll.; Iona Heath.; Deborah Levy.; Peter Whitehead. Marking the launch of a new twice-yearly journal celebrating committed creativity in art and life, a unique evening of readings from work of enduring value by a highly distinguished line-up of writers, artists, doctors and film-makers. Ranging widely across art forms and human activity, Artesian seeks ... (more)Leo Hollis (October 30 at 7:00pm) In The Phoenix: St Paul’s Cathedral and the men who made modern London (Weidenfeld & Nicholson), Leo Hollis, through extensive research, including the previously unavailable papers of Robert Hooke, has brought together in a single narrative all the key characters (Evelyn, Locke, Barbon, Wren) of a ... (more)Interested: skak Added by FlossieT. Gillian Slovo with Susie Orbach (November 13 at 7:00pm) Set in Ceylon and Britain of the 1950s, across two generations of a family, Black Orchids (Virago) is a powerful novel about the search to feel at home in your own skin. Gillian Slovo, the author of Ice Road, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, will be in conversation with Susie Orbach, whose ... (more)Interested: skak, skak Added by FlossieT. Carl Djerassi (November 18 at 7:00pm) Four Jews on Parnassus – A Conversation (Columbia) is a biography of four intellectual giants – Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Gershom Scholem, and Arnold Schönberg - written as a debate between the four on Jewish identity, the making of history, and the desire for immortality, with emphasis ... (more)Jenny Diski (January 20 at 7:00pm) Jenny Diski’s new novel Apology for the Woman Writing (Virago) is based on the true story of Marie de Gournay, the passionate and complex young woman who was only 18 when she was so overwhelmed by the work of Michel de Montaigne that she had to be revived with hellebore. When he died four years later, ... (more)Hanif Kureishi - SOLD OUT (January 29 at 7:00pm) in conversation with John Sutherland Something to Tell You (Faber) follows the fortunes of a successful psychoanalyst who is reflecting on his coming-of-age in 1970s suburbia, on his first love, and on a brutal act of violence from which he can never escape. That decade’s sense of sexual freedom, and ... (more)Iain King (February 17 at 7:00pm) In his book How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time (Continuum), Iain King argues that right and wrong need a Newtonian revolution so they are no longer a matter of judgment or guesswork. While dismantling traditional tenets of moral philosophy (including ‘do unto others...’), he constructs ... (more)Alastair Crooke (February 24 at 7:00pm) Alastair Crooke reads from Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution. In Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution (Pluto), Crooke traces the essence of the Islamist Revolution from its origins in Egypt, through Najaf, Lebanon and the Iranian Revolution’s impact on Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as its response to western thinking based around individualism. He ... (more)Faber Firsts (April 9 at 7:00pm) Faber & Faber was founded by Geoffrey Faber in 1929, with T.S Eliot as editor. As part of this independent publisher’s 80th Anniversary celebrations, the London Review Bookshop welcomes three authors who will read from and discuss their first works. Sarah Hall’s Haweswater, set in 1936 in a remote ... (more)Hanan al-Shaykh with Esther Freud (June 19 at 2:00pm) The leading Lebanese writer Hanan al-Shaykh's most recent novel, Only in London, was shortlisted for the 2001 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Also a short-story writer and playwright, she pays particular attention in her work to women's role in society and the relationship between the sexes. Hanan ... (more)Event location: BP Room, British Museum
Translation: Making a Whole Culture Intelligible? (June 20 at 12:00pm) Anne McLean.; Anthea Bell.; Daniel Hahn.; Frank Wynne. Anthony Burgess insisted that 'translation is not a matter of words only'. Umberto Eco has said that 'translation is the art of failure'. So, what do translators hope to achieve? What are the practical aspects of the job, and the principles behind it? The panellists will address the status and perception ... (more)Event location: Hamlyn Library, British Museum
Ma Jian with Flora Drew (June 20 at 2:00pm) Ma Jian's Beijing Coma, winner of the T. R. Fyvel Index on Censorship Award and shortlisted for this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, is a seminal novel about the Tiananmen Square protests. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has called Ma's 'one of the most important and ... (more)Event location: BP Room, British Museum
Faïza Guène with Sarah Ardizzone (June 20 at 4:00pm) Faïza Guène is a French writer and film director, born to Algerian parents in 1985. She wrote her first novel, Kiffe Kiffe demain (published in English as Just Like Tomorrow), when she was 17 years old. It was a huge success in France, and has been translated throughout the world. Guène's work breaks ... (more)Event location: BP Room, British Museum
Dubravka Ugrešić with Lisa Appignanesi (June 21 at 12:00pm) An award-winning novelist and essayist, Dubravka Ugrešić reflects on femininity, ageing, identity, secrets and love. These are the themes of her new novel, Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, a modern reworking of a traditional myth, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać, Celia Hawkesworth and Mark Thompson. She will ... (more)Event location: Stevenson Room, British Museum
Mourid Barghouti with Ruth Padel (June 21 at 2:00pm) Midnight and Other Poems, translated by Radwa Ashour, is the first major collection of Mourid Barghouti's poetry to be published in the UK. This remarkable Palestinian writer, best known to English-language readers for his autobiography I Saw Ramallah, which won the Naguib Mahfouz Award for Literature, ... (more)Voicing the Masters (and Mistresses): Translation with Variations (June 21 at 3:30pm) Marina Warner, the prominent writer, critic, historian and broadcaster, will address the wide variation in translated versions of Russian texts. Her conversation with Robert Chandler will focus on Andrey Platonov in particular. Chandler has translated and co-translated several of Platonov's novels, including, ... (more)Event location: Stevenson Room, British Museum
Elias Khoury with Jeremy Harding (June 21 at 5:30pm) Edward Said described Elias Khoury as an artist who gives 'voice to rooted exiles and trapped refugees, to dissolving boundaries and changing identities, to radical demands and new languages'. Best known to English readers for his epic Gate of the Sun, Khoury's new novel is Yalo, translated by Peter ... (more)On Simenon (October 13 at 7:00pm) John Banville.; John Gray.; Edwin Frank. Georges Simenon was not only a popular and prolific novelist but also a visionary writer of modern life. His short romans durs, the “hard” or “tough” novels he set apart from his crowd-pleasing Maigret mysteries, are perceptive, nervewracking and unsentimental explorations of the crooked passages ... (more)August Kleinzahler (October 20 at 7:00pm) Although best known as a poet, Kleinzahler has long dabbled in music criticism, writing columns for the San Diego Reader and other publications, and these are now gathered in Music I-LXXIV (Pressed Wafer), a collection of tart, well-informed and opinionated essays ranging from Muddy Waters to Glenn Gould. ... (more)Martin Bell with Steve Richards (October 22 at 7:00pm) During his time in Parliament and as a member of The Standards and Privileges Committee, Martin Bell foresaw many of the issues that have recently come to the public’s attention. In A Very British Revolution – The Expenses Scandal and How to Save Our Democracy (Icon), Bell offers a manifesto for ... (more)Writing Family History (November 16 at 7:00pm) How do writers investigate their own pasts and shape them into a narrative, one which other people will find interesting? What are the particular pleasures, and pitfalls, of this kind of writing? Nicholas Spice, the publisher of the LRB, will chair a discussion with Mary-Kay Wilmers, the paper's editor, ... (more) |
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