Literary Listings London

St Columba's Church is the location for a Jane Austen Society meeting and lecture.

The British Library is hosting an event discussing Netflix's adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Seven Dials Mystery and also Présencia & Resistencia: A Wasafiri Celebration of Latinx Writing.

BookBar Chelsea is hosting an evening with Nicola Dinan, the author of Bellies, to discuss her latest novel, Disappoint Me.

Backstory Bookshop is hosting Tom McTague to discuss his book Between the Waves: Tom McTague and Chloe Hadjimatheou from The Observer on her The Salt Path exposé .

Fitzrovia Chapel is the venue for Michael Bracewell's conversation with Lias Saoudi about his novel Souvenir.

Carnegie Library hosts Jack Fairweather discussing his book The Prosecutor and Elias Jahshan discussing the anthology This Queer Arab Family.

The Poetry Café is hosting a Poetry Review Reading Group, the launch of Yearbook Signing by Leatrice, The Poetry Review Winter 2025 launch, Stanza Bonanza: Folkestone & Margate (plus open mic), and Launch: Homography by Nathan Evans.

Love Affair Basement is the location for the launch of the third issue of The BitterSweet Review.

Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution is hosting a lecture by Grace Livingstone on the history of United States interventions in Latin America.

The London Review Bookshop is hosting Marie-Laure Bernadac & Lauren Elkin to discuss Louise Bourgeois, Juliet Mitchell & Frances Morris to revisit her landmark text, Glyph: Ali Smith & Sarah Wood and Vittles 2: Lauren J Joseph , Sheena Patel, & Odhran O’Donoghue.

Goldsmiths is hosting C.D. Rose to discuss his winning novel, The Rose Field by Philip Pullman and Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre presents Camilla Balshaw and Miranda Doyle.

The Freud Museum is hosting Juliet Mitchell and Lili Owen Rowlands to revisit her landmark text, Psychoanalysis & Feminism, and The Life You Want by Adam Phillips.

Upstairs at the Horse & Groom is hosting Geraldine Norman and Joe Daniel in conversation with Max Décharné about Soho Night and Day and Jake Arnott in conversation with Cathi Unsworth about Journeys into the London Underworld.

Southbank Centre is hosting Out-Spoken: January, TS Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings and Indie Night: February.

Hatchards Piccadilly is hosting James Geary to explore the aphorism, Helen Cammock & Andrew Jones to discuss The Line, Zephyrus Calling: Simon Winchester, Rediscovering Britain: Quintin Lake and George Orwell: Life and Legacy with Robert Colls.

Owl Bookshop is hosting Paul Holden to discuss his investigation The Fraud and Lottie Moggagh in conversation with Alex O’Connell.

Common Press is hosting Gigi Engle and Rachel Thompson discussing Kink Curious and Launch: Celebrating the Resilience of Black Queer Relationships.

Burley Fisher is hosting Launch: Telegraphy by Farah Ali and Possessions: Davina Quinlivan in conversation with So Mayer.

Queens Park Books is hosting Launch: The Fox of Kensal Green by Richard Tyrrell.

The Emmanuel Centre is hosting Dr Rangan Chatterjee and Oliver Burkeman to share insights into the science of happiness.

Conway Hall is hosting LRB Winter Lectures | Adam Shatz: Another Country, Ethical Matters: Green Crime by Julia Shaw, LRB Winter Lectures | Seamus Perry: Pluralism and the Modern Poet, Ethical Matters: How Housing Broke London and Ethical Matters: Loving Differently.

Daunt Books Marylebone is hosting David McCloskey in conversation with Jonathan Freedland and Everybody Loves Our Dollars by Oliver Bullough.

Waterstones Islington is hosting Lucy Hughes-Hallett to discuss The Scapegoat and Krisztina Tóth in conversation with Lucy Popescu.

St George’s German Lutheran Church is hosting Mary Fulbrook to discuss Ten Moments that Shaped Berlin.

The Society of Antiquaries is hosting Bibliographical Society Lecture and Bibliographical Society Lecture: Staying in print: the Brontës, 1846-1876.

Waterstones Gower Street is hosting The Line: Helen Cammock & Andrew Jones to discuss The Line, Tom Bolton to discuss Atomic Albion: Journeys Around Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations

Brixton Library is hosting Professor Keon West and Dr Peter Olusoga to discuss The Science of Racism.

Senate House is hosting W.B. Yeats, Poverty, and the Merrion Square Effect and Stevenson Lecture 2026 | Richard Oswald’s Library: Slavery, Collecting, and the Invention of Rare Books.

Keats House is hosting a reading of Keats’s poem 'The Eve of St. Agnes'.

Chats Palace is hosting Ellen Jones to mark the paperback launch of Outrage: How to Fight for LGBTQ+ Lives.

University Women’s Club is hosting Michèle Barrett giving the 25th Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain Annual Birthday Lecture.

Bàrd Books is hosting a bookish Burns night and Behind the Scenes with the Blue Pencil Agency .

London School of Economics is hosting Lea Ypi to discuss Are revolutions justified?.

Pushkin House is hosting Irina Sadovina and Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse to discuss translating Indigenous literature from the Russian North.

Dr Johnson’s House is hosting a talk on David Garrick and Queer Georgians: A hidden history of lovers, lawbreakers and homemakers.

Pages of Hackney is hosting Nida Sajid in conversation with Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi about her novelette COOP.

Waterstones Streatham is hosting Derek Owusu in conversation with Iman Amrani about Borderline Fiction and He’s the Devil: Tobi Coventry in conversation with Alice Slater.

UCL is hosting Modern Peru: A New History edited by Professors Paulo Drinot & Alberto Vergara, Amphibious Realities: The Documentary Poetics of Allan Sekula and Dickinson’s Fortunate Falls: Professor Linda Freedman’s Inaugural Lecture.

King’s Place is hosting The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland, Jewish Book Week at 75: A Celebration, Jewish Book Week Festival, New Jewish Playwrights: A Showcase and Hidden Histories: Spies, Secrets and Survival.

Stoke Newington Bookshop is hosting Ken Worpole and Gareth Evans to discuss the relationship between literature, landscape, and social history.

Highgate Library Hall is hosting Chalk Farm Railway Lands by Peter Darley and The Shortest History of Japan.

BookBar Islington is the venue for Tareq Baconi discusses his memoir Fire in Every Direction.

Battersea Arts Centre is hosting Philippe Sands KC giving the Alf Dubs Annual Lecture 2026.

The London Library is hosting The London Library Emerging Writers Programme Showcase 2026, Art/Lit Salon: Gertrude Stein and The Mitfords.

Housmans is hosting The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline that Listened by Tash Walker & Adam Zmith.

OSO Arts Centre Barnes is hosting Bloody Barnes Crime Writing Festival.

Marylebone Theatre is hosting T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets.

Shaw Theatre is hosting The Unlikely Politician: Sir Sajid Javid.

Reference Point is hosting Royal Society of Literature: Inside Visual Storytelling.

Barbican is hosting An Evening with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Mayfair Library is hosting Mayfair Mini Book Fair.

Coronet Theatre is hosting Poetry Club: Sarah Howe.