1 & 2 June 2013
We’ve just finished reading Jojo Tulloh’s book, The Modern Peasant: Adventures in City Food. In it, in a quest to become more self-sufficient whilst still living in London, Tulloh learns, among other things, how to bake bread, keep bees, grow… Continue reading
Another week, another cookbook. And yet, this one is so wittily written, with such great do-able recipes that we couldn’t resist it. Written by Felicity Cloake, who writes a weekly column for The Guardian trying out ‘best of recipes’ (we… Continue reading
Be Awesome is awesome! Bravo, Hadley Freeman, for writing such a great book and telling the truth, without being dour or preachy, about the effort required to be a sane and healthy modern woman. Because it is quite a task,… Continue reading
June 6 2013, 7pm (but doors open at 6.30pm)
We loved American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld, the novel loosely based on the early life of Laura Bush. Gripping, intelligent and thought-provoking, we’ve recommended it endlessly to friends. So we’re extremely curious to hear about her latest book, Sisterland, and… Continue reading
23 - 25 May 2013
One of the great things about the Chelsea Flower Show is that you don’t need to go to the actual event to benefit from it. It spawns all kinds of spin-offs and celebrations, such as the Chelsea Fringe: the Alternative… Continue reading
Sat 25 May 2013, 7.45pm
Is he officially a National Treasure yet? Did you read Victoria Coren’s piece about him in The Observer at the weekend? Didn’t it make you wish you could sit down and talk to Rupert Everett about things like… Continue reading
4 June 2013, 6.30pm
Blimey. A chance to see not one internationally major writer reading and discussing her work, but six of them, all together, all at once. Sort of a moment, isn’t it. Sort of unmissable. The six writers – Hilary Mantel, Zadie… Continue reading
You’ll have to steel yourself to read Wave, but steel yourself you should, because this is one of those books – like The Year of Magical Thinking or The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – that tells you so much… Continue reading
26 May, 7.30pm
Fifty years ago, Sylvia Plath died leaving behind a black file of poetry that was to become her final, posthumously published collection, Ariel. In celebration, forty leading poets and actresses are gathering together for an evening at the Royal Festival Hall… Continue reading
There’ve been a few books published in the last year that became so widely discussed, amongst the media and friends alike, that they became must-reads (if only so you could talk about the frustrating plot twists). We’re thinking particularly of… Continue reading
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