Celebrating 20 years of the pioneering poetry collective, Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, we close out the festival with a party of poetry featuring Inua Ellams, Malika Booker, Kayo Chingonyi, Zakia Carpenter-Hall, Arji Manuelpillai, Charlotte Ansell, hosted by MPK Director Jill Abram.

Novelist Polly Samson speaks to Edward Docx about her spellbinding new novel set amongst the artists, writers and musicians of 1960s Hydra. Alongside music and readings, they discuss utopian dreams and the explosive potential of artistic communities.

Historian Simon Schama, discusses some of the most famous and fascinating friendships to have been forged amongst writers throughout history: from Boccaccio and Petrarch to Montaigne and La Boétie and plenty others since.

We bring Monique Roffey (UK) and C Pam Zhang (USA) together across two continents to discuss the common themes of myth, discovery and the lure and lore of the frontier. In partnership with Brighton Festival.

We showcase the exceptional talent to come out of the inaugural London Library Emerging Writers Programme with members of the cohort reading from the anthology of the work they produced throughout their year with the Library.

In partnership with 5x15, historian Suzannah Lipscomb, novelist and screenwriter David Nicholls, novelist Naomi Ishiguro and writer and engineer Yassmin Abdel-Magied share stories inspired by The London Library’s gloriously eccentric Science & Miscellaneous section.

Tom Stoppard and Edmund de Waal come together in conversation to discuss some of the themes and concerns they share in their work, including diaspora, displacement, art and libraries and the cultural particularity of pre-War Vienna.

Exiled by the Nazis from his native Vienna at the height of his glittering literary career, Stefan Zweig found refuge in London and The London Library. Philippe Sands, George Prochnik and Daria Santini discuss Stefan’s Zweig’s time in London. woven through with readings of his letters.

Salman Rushdie joins English PEN and The London Library to celebrate 40 years since the publication of his trailblazing novel, Midnight's Children. He’ll discuss the inspiration and genesis of his magical realist classic, his remarkable body of work since, literature and freedom of expression.

Marking the 80th anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s death, we premiere our dramatisation of her iconic 1928 feminist polemic, A Room of One’s Own, adapted by Linda Marshall-Griffiths, directed by Charlotte Westenra and filmed in the atmospheric spaces of The London Library.

As English PEN and The London Library mark our anniversaries, we celebrate the incredible life of Rebecca West, author, journalist, literary critic, travel writer, fearless intellectual and one of the most energetic and fierce figures in our organisations’ histories.

Hannah Chukwu, editor of Bernardine Evaristo’s Black Britain: Writing Back series and Lennie Goodings, Chair of Virago Books, speak to writer and broadcaster Bidisha about the political nature of publishing and the importance of bringing forgotten works to new generations.

Sarah Waters talks to Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five, about the inspiration, motivation and discoveries which have informed her award-winning novels – all modern classics, beautifully and vividly told, which reveal the hidden histories of women’s lives and LGBTQ+ culture.