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.

Join writers Judith Robinson and Scott Pack as they travel the globe in search of great, but largely unsung, works of world literature. They will do their best to stop off at each continent where they will champion, discuss and recommend ten books, many of them in translation.