Harry Mount:
Walking Tour of Hampstead

This event is now SOLD OUT

(Limited to 20 people) Walkers will meet at Ivy House.

Join Harry Mount, author of A Lust for Window Sills - a Lover's Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble-Dash, a funny, anecdotal history of architecture, for his personal view of Hampstead....read more

John Lanchester
talks to
Stephanie Flanders:
Whoops!

John Lanchester's latest book Whoops! (Penguin Press, October 2010) explains the worldwide financial crash in accessible terms....read more

Ruth Padel:
Where the Serpent Lives

Ruth Padel is a prizewinning poet, writer and broadcaster. She will be talking about and reading from her first novel Where the Serpent Lives (Little Brown, February 2010). Set over one year in London, Devon and the jungles of India, it is a brilliantly woven meditation on motherhood, marriage and our relations with the natural world....read more

Stephen Games:
Pevsner: The Early Life:
Germany and Art

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, who lived for 50 years in Hampstead, was the best known and most important architectural historian of the twentieth century....read more

10 Books to Read Before You Die:
John Mullan,
Joanna Briscoe,
Louise Doughty
and Andrew O’Hagan

Our expert panel will inspire, motivate and inform you about their top ten choices from the world of literature....read more

Giles Coren & Guy Walters: In Conversation

Giles Coren is an award-winning restaurant critic and columnist for The Times.

Guy Walters is the author and editor of nine books, which include four wartime thrillers, the critically acclaimed Berlin Games and his latest work, Hunting Evil....read more

Ron Moody:
A Still Untitled, (Not Quite) Autobiography

Ron Moody has enthralled generations with his masterly performance as Fagin in both the stage and film versions of Oliver!...read more

Jay Rayner:
Food Writing and the Role
of Food in Fiction

Jay Rayner is an award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster...read more

Miriam Halahmy:
To Rhyme or
Not to Rhyme?
Poetry Workshop

Only 15 places available.

A poetry workshop which will look at writing poetry using interesting forms and rhymes, as well as poems which are written in modern free form....read more

Laetitia Maklouf:
The Virgin Gardener

Unfortunately this event will no longer be taking place. We apologise for any inconvenience....read more