All London book talks, June to Oct 2026
The next four months of London's literary events
This is a rolling list of London’s literary events over the next four months, aggregated from 90 bookshops, libraries, academic institutions, and arts venues.
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Further lists filtered by subject and date: history and politics; poetry; LGBTQ+; 25 of the best events in June
Theatre listings: literary theatre productions, June to Oct 2026; literary theatre round-up: June 2026; Shakespeare plays, June to Sep 2026
Recent issues of Literary Backlistings, in which I recommend remarkable books and other literary goings-on: On Tracey Emin’s writing and On George Eliot and making new
This month
Tuesday 16 June
James Marriott in conversation with Dominic Sandbrook: The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
Union Chapel, 7pm, tickets
The pair will discuss Marriott’s new book, The New Dark Ages, which investigates how a shift away from the printed page is reshaping our minds, culture and collective future.
Bloomsday & Beyond: Sinéad Gleeson and Patrick Freyne
Daunt Books Marylebone, 7pm, tickets
The two Irish writers will discuss how they have responded to the city and the country in their own work, what Joyce means to them, and more.
Freddie Phillipson: The Ulysses Project
8 Smart’s Place, 6.30pm, tickets
The architect will present and discuss his drawings of Dublin as experienced in the novel, taken from his 20-year exploration of Joyce’s text.
Nora Lange in conversation with Lamorna Ash
Waterstones Islington, 6.30pm, tickets
Lange will discuss her debut novel Us Fools, a tragicomedy of two precocious sisters coming of age in 1980s America, and her short fiction collection Day Care, stories of lust, estrangement and self-preservation.
Raveheart: Graeme Armstrong in conversation with Tice Cin
Foyles Charing Cross, 7pm, tickets
As a far-right UK regime sweeps to power and cracks down on youth, culture, and - the final straw - electronica, the protagonist of Armstrong’s new novel launches a rave revolt.
An Evening with Jem Calder and Ana Kinsella
BookBar Chelsea, 7.15pm, tickets
The authors discuss their novels, I Want You To Be Happy and Frida Slattery As Herself, both about millennial life and love.
Erin Maglaque & Hannah Dawson: Presence
London Review Bookshop, 7pm, tickets
Presence explores the hidden history of the female body through deep archival research: fragments in medical texts, trial transcripts, legal treatises, prayerbooks, letters and diaries come together to make tangible a vanished past, unfamiliar because of its deliberate suppression. 10 Questions with Erin.
The Next Fix by Kojo Karam
Housmans, 7pm, tickets
Karam asks whether the war on drugs is really over – as substances criminalised for generations are being reborn as mental health treatments and billion-dollar investment opportunities – or merely changing its formula.
Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris on The Book of Birds
The MCT at Alleyn’s School, 7.30pm, tickets
The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss is a celebration of birdlife in Britain and how we can save them.
On Thin Ice: An Explorer’s Memoir of Siberia, Surveillance and Survival by Charlie Walker
Pushkin House, 7pm, tickets
Walker will discuss his account of his 600-mile walk across Siberia, which he began in February 2022. A few days later, Russia invaded Ukraine, and Walker’s journey eventually ended in a Russian jail cell.
Power Play: Video Games, Politics and the Battle for Global Influence by George E. Osborn
Backstory Bookshop, 7.30pm, tickets
Osborn reveals how video games - the world’s largest entertainment medium - are being used by autocrats, populists and violent extremists to influence the real world.
Travel Writer Talks: Louis D. Hall and Shafik Meghji
Stanfords, 7pm, tickets
The writers discuss their books: In Green, about Hall’s journey on horseback across the Ligurian Alps, and Small Earthquakes, about Britain’s forgotten connections with South America.
Double launch: Private Letters, Public Matters by Michael Pearson and The Innocent Canadian by John Delacourt
Canada House, 4-6pm, info, RSVP to CanadaTrafalgarSquare@international.gc.ca
The launch of Pearson’s biography of his grandfather, Canadian prime minister Lester B. Pearson, and of Delacourt’s novel about the romance and intrigue chronicled in the diaries and correspondence of Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie and novelist Elizabeth Bowen during WWII.
Wednesday 17 June
Bàrd Debuts: June
Bàrd Books, 7pm, tickets
Imagine a night of speed dating except the people selling themselves are the newest authors on the scene. Each takes the stage for 10 minutes: momo Yamaguchi, Brodie Crellin, Lauren Mooney, Freya Bromley, Max Lury, Emma Cleary.
Fitzcarraldo Editions x Lala Books
Lala Books, 7pm, tickets
An evening of readings from Fitzcarraldo writers Brian Dillon, Alice Hattrick and Makenna Goodman. Read 10 Questions with Brian Dillon.
Chloe Michelle Howarth and Siän Hughes in conversation with Sarah Shaffi
Backstory Bookshop, 7.30pm, tickets
Howarth and Hughes will discuss their novels, No Such Thing As Monday and Heap Earth Upon It, which both explore family secrets and the weight of generational trauma. 10 Questions with Chloe.
Bloomsday: Oisín McKenna, Louise O’Neill and Sarvat Hasin with Eve O’Connor
London Irish Centre, 7.30pm, tickets
Readings from three novelists to celebrate James Joyce’s work, hosted by playwright and performer Eve O’Connor.
Livi Michael on Elizabeth Gaskell
Dickens Museum, 1.30pm, tickets, also online
Michael’s latest novel, Elizabeth and Ruth, based on the real correspondence between Gaskell and Charles Dickens, is about Gaskell’s efforts to help a young Irish prostitute released from prison.
Surviving extreme times with Mishal Husain and Lea Ypi
LSE, 6.30pm, tickets, also online
In their books, both authors have explored family histories through periods of authoritarianism and political upheaval. They will discuss what history can tell us about living through difficult times.
Rebecca Tamás & Malcolm Gaskill: The Book of Mysteries
London Review Bookshop, 7pm, tickets
Guided by the waypoints of the Pagan calendar, Tamás set out on a journey around Britain, seeking solace from grief. Her book makes a plea for reimmersion in the natural rhythms of the seasons as a remedy for self and planet.
Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art by Daisy Dixon
Foyles, 7pm, tickets
The philosopher of art explores some of the most volatile and contentious works ever produced, from prehistoric sculpture to extreme metal music, showing that humans have always used art to make sense of our less innocent aspects. With Dan Hicks.
Turning Away: The Poetics of An Ancient Gesture by Benjamin A. Saltzman
Housmans, 7pm, tickets
Saltzman reveals how gestures including the averted gaze in art, poetry, and philosophy have become a language for our uncomfortable engagements with the world. With Revd Dr Ayla Lepine.
Norwegian Poetry Celebration
St Olave Church, 7pm, info
A celebration of contemporary Norwegian poetry to open this year’s European Poetry Festival. The poets presenting new collaborative work include: Bjørn Vatne and Luke Kennard; Thor Magnus Tangerås and Eley Williams; Vilde Bjerke Torset and Lavinia Singer; Sean Bell and SJ Fowler; Bob T Bright and Matthew Sokulsky; Yemi Dipeolu and Cameron Wad; Petra Pálkovácsová and Katerina Koulouri.
Stacy Skolnik & Luke Roberts with Hannah Regel
Burley Fisher, 7.15pm, tickets
Skolknik discusses Robert Frost: captivated by the Facebook updates of a high school friend and his increasingly nomadic lifestyle, Skolnik created a portrait in poetry of a life on the edges of American society. Roberts discusses Bad Omens, a collection drawn from a decades worth of journals and notebooks.
Mr. Moonlight by Philip Norman
Owl Bookshop, 6.30pm, tickets
Norman discusses his comprehensive biography of Brian Epstein, the man who built the Beatles, with Tim Haigh.
The Smallest Restaurant in Paris by Rachel Khoo
Honey & Co Studio, 7pm, tickets
Khoo’s memoir describes her journey from a London office job to a Bastille bedsit, to hosting suppers in her 21m³ apartment that sold out months in advance.
How To Date Better: Emma-Louise Boynton
Sir Devonshire Square Hotel, 6.30pm, tickets
Drawing on her new book Pleasure, Boynton will reflect on how culture, technology and our relationship with intimacy shape the way we approach dating today.
Ethical Matters: Can Superheroes Save the World?
Conway Hall, 6.30pm, tickets
A conversation on superheroes, ethics, identity and social justice with comedian, writer and activist Juliette Burton and author and academic Danny Graydon, founder of The Superhero Project.
Brave and Bold: 100 Years of the Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath (in All Weathers) by Nell Frizzell
The Highgate Society, 7pm, tickets
Rich with archive material and new interviews – from Dolly Alderton and Amy Liptrot to lifelong swimmers of every era – this is a story of community, women and wild water across a century of social and political change.
Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Camille de Peretti
Institut Français, 7pm, tickets
De Peretti discusses her novel reimagining the life of a woman who was the subject of a painting by Gustav Klimt that was lost, repainted, stolen, and ultimately found intact in a rubbish bag. With novelist Ben Faccini.
An Evening with Hattie Williams and Grace Alexander
Waterstones Streatham, 7pm, tickets
The authors discuss their novels: Bitter Sweet, about a young publicity assistant who embarks on an affair with an illustrious older writer, and The Lowe Job, about the fallout of a political scandal.
Camilla Barnes and Claire Powell
Brick Lane Bookshop, 7pm, tickets
The novelists will discuss writing humour and family dynamics with journalist Alex Peake-Tomkinson.
The Talk of the Party by Foluso Agbaje
Waterstones Islington, 6.30pm, tickets
In this Lagos-set thriller, the children of a matriarch find themselves embroiled in scandals that could shatter the flawless reputation their mother has carefully built.
Phantom at the Feast by Tony White
Stewart House, 6pm, tickets
White will discuss his new thriller with Will Montgomery from Royal Holloway’s Poetics Research Centre, with readings and Q&A.
Thursday 18 June
Capital Crime 2026
Leonardo Royal St Paul’s, also 19 & 20 June, tickets
A three-day festival with more than 100 authors and specialists discussing crime and thriller fiction.
Bermondsey & Beyond Literary Festival
Various venues, runs 18-29 June, info
A series of free literary talks and workshops in South London over 11 days.
Dalloway Day London Literary Salon
The Queens Larder, 7.30pm, tickets
Hosted by the European Writers Salon and Insurgent Press. Readings from writers engaging with Mrs Dalloway and Woolf more widely, with drinks and conversation.
M. John Harrison & Julia Armfield: The End of Everything
London Review Bookshop, 7pm, tickets
In Harrison’s new novel, a a beachcomber in post-apocalyptic Britain comes across a strange, shape-shifting creature, and realises he must take it inland before it destroys everything he knows.
Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman
BookBar Islington, 7pm, tickets
In the middle of the countryside, a realtor shows a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about the home’s many wonderful qualities but about its previous owner, the mystifying Helen, whose presence still seems to suffuse every fixture.
Uprising by Tahmima Anam
Daunt Books Notting Hill, 6.30pm, tickets
In Anam’s novel, a rebellion ignites among a community of sex workers on an isolated island, a story inspired by the real women of Banishanta, Bangladesh. With Sanam Mahloudji.
No Such Thing as Monday by Siân Hughes
Waterstones King’s Rd, 7pm, tickets
Haunted by what happened to her sister when they were children, Steffie is stuck in a loop of self-destruction, defiance, and shame. But when her bullying father dies suddenly, it sparks a reckoning.
Tagore’s Salon: Writing Resistance, Migration, and Settler Colonialism
Peckham Levels, 7pm, tickets
Novelists Tina Makereti and Saraid de Silva discuss how decay and dystopia illustrate colonialism and displacement, and how writing can transport us to different countries, continents, hellscapes and paradises.
Redacted - Brave New Words
London Library, 7pm, tickets
Writers will create and perform their own black-out poetry from the same section of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Host Inua Ellams will be joined by guests Shami Chakrabarti, Jenni Fagan, Luke Harding, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Barry Sadid and more tbc.
Cyprus at the European Poetry Festival
High Commission of Cyprus, 6.30pm, tickets
An evening to celebrate Cypriot poetry, as poets from Cyprus, Greece and the UK diaspora present one-off collaborations.
Into the mystic with W.B. Yeats
Union Church & Community Centre, 7.30pm, tickets
A celebration of Yeats’ life and work. Readings of his poems by Nora Connolly and Teresa Jennings, with live music.
Writers and Readers Salon: London Writers Awards Edition
Lala Books, 7pm, tickets
Adam Zmith, Ashani Lewis, Emma Lowther and Sufiyaan Salam read their work and discuss developing a career as an author, with a focus on writers who are traditionally underrepresented in UK publishing.
Mrs Dickens by Emily Howes
Hatchards Piccadilly, 6.30pm, tickets
Howes’ novel traces the long marriage between Charles Dickens and Kate Hogarth.
Kat Dunn in conversation with Sarvat Hasin
Waterstones Trafalgar Sq, 7pm, tickets
Dunn discusses Rottenheart, her sapphic gothic horror novel inspired by Hamlet.
Logging Off: Adele Zeynep Walton in conversation with Frankie McNamara
Pages of Hackney, 7pm, tickets
From workers fired by algorithms, to online forums dedicated to revenge porn and suicide, to censorship of marginalised voices, Logging Off reveals how the digital world is fuelling crises that only empathy, agency and humanity can resolve.
And The Cello Came Too by Robin Lustig
Wiener Holocaust Library, 6.30pm, tickets
When Lustig’s mother died in 2013, he found himself drawn back into the tangled history of his German-Jewish family – a story of survival, exile, death and endurance. 10 Questions with Robin.
They Call Me Guess by Beulah Smith-Coombs
Brixton Library, 7pm, tickets
Smith-Coombs chronicles her early childhood in 1950s rural Jamaica, narrating her upbringing and student years in ‘swinging 60s’ England and the decades beyond. Joined by Professor Suzanne Scafe.
The Writing Shed featuring William Wyld and Hetty Cliss
The Front Room, 6.30pm, tickets
Open mic evening featuring two headliners.
STST Word Club: An Image Expressed by the Action of Light
Staffordshire St SE15, 7pm, tickets
A celebration of the summer solstice, light, and seasonal song, curated by Lu Rose Cunningham. Performers include Blue Pieta, Esmé Hogeveen, Raymond E. Slacker and Sunny Vowles.
Friday 19 June
Dead Poets Live: Briggflatts - An Autobiography
Coronet Theatre, 7.30pm, also 20 & 21 June, tickets
Simon McBurney will explore Basil Bunting’s life and perform, sixty years after its first publication, one of the greatest – and most unjustly neglected – poetic accomplishments in English.
Law and the world: rights, justice and writing with Philippe Sands and Gerry Simpson
British Academy, 6.45pm, tickets
The lawyers discuss law, justice and the power of writing. Part of the British Academy Ideas Festival.
Wild Pavements: Exploring Britain’s Cities with an Urban Naturalist by Amanda Tuke
Hewson Books, 2pm, tickets
Tuke will discuss her book on a walk around Kew in search of the fascinating wild plants and other wildlife which find a home on our pavements.
Small Change by Steph Ellen Feeney
The Poetry Café, 7pm, tickets
Feeney launches her debut collection about the transformations of new motherhood, published by Broken Sleep Books. With Rachel Long.
Saturday 20 June
The British Academy Ideas Festival
British Academy, 11am-5pm, tickets
Talks from authors and academics including Jonathan Bate, Sarah O’Connor, Sunil Amrith and Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚.
Richard Ayoade: Afterthoughts
Hackney Empire, 2pm & 7.30pm, tickets
Ayoade shares insights from his latest book, Afterthoughts, or Some Pistachios Won’t Open: Wisdom for the Unreflective.
Out of Print: The problem of literacy
Verdurin, 2-6pm, tickets
A syposium to examine the ostensible crisis of reading in our age in literary, philosophical, historical, and sociological forms, with Kit Wilson, Edmund King and Daniel Hadas.
Barbican Young Poets: Open Works 2026
Barbican, 12pm, tickets
The cohort of 23 poets presents new work developed over the course of this year’s programme.
Dead Poets Live: Briggflatts - An Autobiography
Coronet Theatre, 7.30pm, also 19 & 21 June, tickets
Simon McBurney will explore Basil Bunting’s life and perform, sixty years after its first publication, one of the greatest – and most unjustly neglected – poetic accomplishments in English.
European Poetry Festival: Swiss Poetry Celebration
Hundred Years Gallery, 7.30pm, info
Swiss poets present new work, made for the event, with British counterparts.
The power of storytelling and activism
LSE, 3.30pm, tickets, also online
Novelist Yassmin Abdel-Magied, theatre director Amir Nizar Zuabi and history professor Joanna Lewis discuss how art, literature and performance can be used to connect people and inspire activism.
From Lebanon to the Frontlines with Sorj Chalandon & Fergal Keane
Institut Français, 7pm, tickets
Reflecting upon Chalandon’s novel The Fourth Wall, set amid the Lebanese civil war, and Keane’s decades of reporting from conflicts, the pair will explore how writers and journalists bear witness to lives transformed by violence.
Fault Lines: Olivier Norek in conversation with Abir Mukherjee
Institut Français, 2.30pm, tickets
The crime writers discuss the crime novel as a way of making sense of the world, and exploring questions of justice and social divides. With Nick Caistor.
South London Speaks by Stephen P. Daly
Blue Anchor Library, 1pm, free tickets
From 1950 to 1980, London’s streets echoed with a dialect full of distinct expressions, sharp idioms and slang. Daly’s book documents this fading language.
Sunday 21 June
Dead Poets Live: Briggflatts - An Autobiography
Coronet Theatre, 7.30pm, also 19 & 20 June, tickets
Simon McBurney will explore Basil Bunting’s life and perform, sixty years after its first publication, one of the greatest – and most unjustly neglected – poetic accomplishments in English.
Torriano Poetry: Nasim Lukzaj & Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
Torriano Meeting House, 7.30pm, tickets
The poets will read from their works Bad Queer and Ultraviolet with Landing Marks. Followed by open mic. 10 Questions with Gayathiri.
Monday 22 June
5x15: Five Historians on Moments in History that Matter to Them
Union Chapel, 7pm, tickets
Five historians and authors each tell a story from the past in 15 minutes: William Dalrymple, Kate Williams, Alice Loxton, Peter Frankopan and Gary Younge.
Dominique by Françoise Dolto: A Discussion with Eleanor Ivory Weber, Lionel Bailly and Perwana Nazif
Institute of Psychoanalysis, 7.30pm, tickets, also online
The trio – the co-director of Divided Publishing, the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and the writer – will discuss Dolto, the case study as a literary form and the various manifestations of the unconscious in Dominique.
Flanders Poetry Celebration at the European Poetry Festival
Flanders House, 7pm, free tickets
Three Flemish poets present new collaborations made with British counterparts, alongside several other poets in pairs.
Launch: Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History, no. 6
UCL, 6pm, free tickets
Performances by Erica Baum, Stephen Emmerson and Buzz Spector. The theme of no.6 is ‘Cuts/ tears’. The journal, edited by Gill Partington, Simon Morris and Adam Smyth, features work by book artists, printmakers, writers and academics, and is focused on the processes of mark-making in the widest possible sense.
The Women Are Not Fine by Hope Reese
Szent István Ház W5, 7pm, info
In the 1900s, the women of Nagyrév, Hungary, were in trouble: they had husbands who drank and made their lives unbearable. A midwife offered an answer: arsenic, turning the village into the epicentre of one of the deadliest series of poisonings in modern history. Reese has pieced together newspapers, court documents, police records and more to uncover the truth. With Winnie M. Li.
War, Hope and Impunity in Ukraine
Frontline Club, 7pm, tickets
Andrey Kurkov, whose latest book is Three Years on Fire: The Destruction of Ukraine, and Manisha Ganguly from The Guardian join Kim Darroch to discuss their Orwell Prize-shortlisted reporting on war crimes in Ukraine.
Information at War: A Communication History of the Ministry of Information 1939–1946
Senate House, 5.45pm, tickets
Simon Eliot and Henry Irving discuss the wide range of activities undertaken by the Ministry of Information, both in Britain and in scores of countries overseas.
Tuesday 23 June
Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor
Brixton House, 7pm, tickets
Taylor discusses his novel about a gay Black painter navigating desire, creativity and the art world. With Joshua Rivers.
Olivia Laing on Art, Solitude, and The Lonely City at 10
Union Chapel, 7pm, tickets
Laing will reflect on the legacy of The Lonely City, which was a personal quest to master the art of being alone, and an investigation into how artists have reckoned with isolation; her latest novel The Silver Book; and what loneliness, intimacy, solidarity and connection mean today. Joined by writer and curator Charlie Porter.
Colin Grant & Michael Rosen: What We Leave We Carry
London Review Bookshop, 7pm, tickets
Historian Colin Grant and WritersMosaic writers have travelled the length and breadth of the country to gather the voices and experiences of immigrants living in Britain. Their accounts ask questions about assimilation, identity, belonging and the emotional cost of migration.
Ben Pester + Keith Ridgway
Bàrd Books, 7pm, tickets
Pester discusses his short story collection, Sail Away Land, about normal things – losing people, finding love – but also about going to parties through a door in the back of a colleague’s head, housebreaking in search of a sister’s ghost, and asking the strangers in the kitchen to resurrect you at midnight.
Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day with Justine Waddell
Waterstones Piccadilly, 6pm, tickets
The actor, writer and producer will discuss her new film adaptation of Night and Day, starring Timothy Spall, Jack Whitehall, Lily Allen and Jennifer Saunders.
Becoming a Novelist in Post-Brexit Britain: Four Italian Women on Writing, Identity and the Contemporary Novel
UCL, 5.30pm, tickets
Four Italian women, who migrated to the UK and became novelists, will discuss how their first books came into being in London: Cecilia Ghidotti, Olga Campofreda, Carolina Bandinelli and Giorgia Tolfo.
The Future of Memoir: Blake Morrison, Susanna Crossman and Neil Griffiths
Foyles Charing Cross, 7pm, tickets
This panel asks: in a time of infinite self-expression available on social media, what role does memoir have and how does it remain relevant?
Love’s Labour by Stephen Grosz
Waterstones King’s Rd, 7pm, tickets
The psychoanalyst’s latest book explores the challenges, obstacles and rewards of two people surrendering to one another. With Hadley Freeman.
The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea by Helen Lewis
Backstory Bookshop, 7.30pm, tickets
Taking us from Leonardo da Vinci to Elon Musk, Lewis unravels a word that we all use – without really questioning what it means – and asks if the modern idea of genius is distorting our view of the world. With Rachel Parris.
Femmephilia by Sophie Lewis
ICA, 6.45pm, tickets
Lewis makes the case for the importance of politicized femme-ness: a feminism that is self-consciously artificial, extravagant in its erotic and political appetites, and staunchly anti-work, abolitionist, and utopian. With S. Lamble.
The Nuremberg Women: Natalie Livingstone in conversation with Daniel Finkelstein
Wiener Holocaust Library, 6.30pm, tickets
Livingston’s book sheds new light on the most famous trials of the 20th century through the stories of eight extraordinary women whose significance has long been overlooked.
The Women Are Not Fine: Hope Reese in conversation with Maria Balinska
Daunt Books Hampstead, 6.30pm, tickets
At the turn of the 20th century, the women of Nagyrév, Hungary, were in trouble: they had husbands who drank, beat them, and made their lives unbearable. The local midwife offered an answer: arsenic. Journalist Hope Reese has pieced together newspapers, court documents, police records and more to uncover the truth.
Inside the Panopticon with Jacob Siegel
Verdurin, 7pm, tickets
Siegel’s book The Information explores the rise of the data-fuelled control state, the encroachment of military technologies in civic life, and the role of political thought under surveillance.
Housman Poetry Series: James Byrne
Housmans, 7pm, free tickets
Byrne launches his latest collection The Banality of Power, which speaks back to aggressors and corporate power, beginning with Adolf Eichmann on trial in a glass cage, and asks: who are the Eichmanns now. Joined by Ziba Karbassi and Stephen Watts.
Wednesday 24 June
Indie Night: June
Southbank Centre, 7.45pm, tickets
A series celebrating independent publishers and the boundary-pushing authors they publish. Hosted by Okechukwu Nzelu and Eliza Clark.
European Poetry Festival: Estonia
Southbank Centre, 8pm, tickets
Three poets from Estonia present new live literary works, made in collaboration with British poets, on the night of their Midsummer (Jaanipäev) celebration.
Lack by Cecilia Knapp
Daunt Books Notting Hill, 6.30pm, tickets
In Knapp’s novel, a woman is deeply affected by grief and chaos: the death of her mother, a long-buried sexual assault, and a drawn-out affair with a married actor, and wonders whether it is possible to rebuild, when all you feel is lack. With Anna Whitwham.
Priya Parmar and Julie Owen Moylan
Hatchards Piccadilly, 6.30pm, tickets
The authors discuss their novels: The Original, about Hollywood star Katharine Hepburn, and Elizabeth and Marilyn, about the Queen and Marilyn Monroe.
Thirst Trap: Gráinne O’Hare in conversation with Alice Slater
Foyles Charing Cross, 7pm, tickets
O’Hare discusses her novel about three friends in their late twenties, grieving the tragic and sudden death of another friend.
Enchantment by Riikka Pulkkinen
Veranda Books, 6.30pm, tickets
Enchantment is a literary mystery about the suspicious death of a 17-year-old girl. It explores the uneasy terrain of girlhood, with all its scrutiny and judgement.
Archives: Edmund de Waal in conversation with Kavita Puri
London Library, 7pm, tickets
De Waal discusses his latest book, an Archive, which, like much of his work, is concerned with collecting and collections – how objects are kept together, lost, stolen or dispersed.
Sophie Lewis & Keiran Goddard: Femmephilia
London Review Bookshop, 7pm, tickets
Lewis makes the case for the importance of politicized femme-ness: a feminism that is self-consciously artificial, extravagant in its erotic and political appetites, and staunchly anti-work, abolitionist, and utopian.
Inside the Faber archive: Jan Morris
The Bindery, 7pm, tickets
Faber archivist Leigh Haddix and Morris’ biographer Sara Wheeler will discuss the journalist, travel writer and pioneer.
Investigating the Former Duke and Duchess of York: Andrew Lownie and Ross MacFarlane
Fitzrovia Chapel, 7pm, tickets
Lownie discusses his biography of the late Queen’s second son, from which the picture emerges of a spoilt former prince unable to connect. It also documents the pair’s links with Jeffrey Epstein.
Ben Rhodes on Trump, Iran and The Future of America
Union Chapel, 7pm, tickets
Barack Obama’s former foreign-policy aide and speechwriter will discuss his new book All We Say: A History of the United States in Fifteen Speeches, which traces the long battle over what it means to be American.
How To Win A Trade War: A Friendly Guide To An Unfriendly World by Soumaya Keynes
Backstory Bookshop, 7.30pm, tickets
The FT journalist discusses her witty, essential guide to our new era of economic competition, written with Chad Bown.
The Kitchen Book by Ella Risbridger
Waterstones King’s Rd, 7pm, tickets
The author of Midnight Chicken discusses her latest book, another love letter to food.
Apples and Snakes presents Jawdance
Brixton House, 8pm, tickets
A night of performance poetry with a DJ.
Dyke4Dyke Zine Issue 4 Release Party
Lala Books, 6.30pm, tickets
Hear readings from contributors.
Poetry magazine launch: Weekend
Housmans, 7pm, free tickets
The launch of a new poetry magazine, featuring Luke Roberts, Harriet Rose and others.