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Ian McEwan explores how our understanding of the self has changed over time
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A largely unseen side of the literary world is explored in Michael Grandage’s directorial debut
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Bookworms, get booking! Max Porter, Howard Jacobson and Elif Shafak are among the starry selection of writers speaking at Daunt Books London Literary Festival 2016.
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Simon Armitage is joined by exciting newcomers Mona Arshi and Zaffar Kunial for an evening of poetry reading
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‘Among Giants and Ghosts’ at the Royal Festival Hall sees literary titans David Mitchell and Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation
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Karl Ove Knausgaard is one of our age's most celebrated autobiographical writers. He comes to The Tabernacle on February 23 as part of the Guardian Live 2016 programme
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The very best children's books of 2015 to teach little ones to love the written word and keep teens reading long after lights out
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Max Porter, celebrated first novelist, and Maria Liosogorskaya, member of 2015 Turner Prize winning collective Assemble, are among the speakers at this 5x15 event
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Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka reflects on a life in literature at the British Library
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Brooklyn and Nora Webster author Colm Tóibín speaks at the Tabernacle in February
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Esteemed playwright David Hare comes to King's Place as part of the Guardian Live programme
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Masters of experimental theatre, Forced Entertainment, adapt Agota Kristof's war memoir into an unsettling two man show at the B.A.C
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The T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry Readings 2015 are a jewel in the Royal Festival Hall's literature and spoken word programme.
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The National Theatre's freshly adapted Husbands and Sons play puts the hardships of wives and mothers in the spotlight
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Catch literary scholars offer unprecedentedly deep insights into T S Eliot's Poetry with their 50th Anniversary talk on one of the world's most cherished writers
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'Posh' playwright Laura Wade adapts Sarah Waters' lesbian romp, Tipping the Velvet, for the stage
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Don't miss Waterstones' Elena Ferrante evening - free and fascinating discussion with her translator and many others
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To mark the publication of Jonathan Franzen's new book Purity, the bestselling author is speaking at the Royal Geographical Society.
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London literary events don't get much lovelier: we're head over heels for this Bloomsbury Bookclub
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Poet in the City is planning a special celebration of Samuel Beckett poems with live readings and panel discussions
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Ted Hughes talk, The Art of Translation, will celebrate the former Poet Laureate's exquisite work at Kings Place this November
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Timberlake Wertenbaker's masterpiece about the humanising power of theatre for prisoners in 1788 Australia is revived at the National Theatre.
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The Dulwich Literary Festival 2016 hosts Harriet Harman, Nick Clegg, Joanna Trollope plus events for kids, Potter fans and bookworms
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Award-winning children's writer Patrick Ness discusses new novel The Rest of us Just Live Here with Radio 1's Gemma Cairney.
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As part of the Wanamaker Playhouse Concerts by Candlelight, world class actors bring classic and contemporary poetry to life.
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Catch up on your reading this autumn: we pick the best books of 2015 to curl up with or give as gifts
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This shining stage adaptation of Dereck Walcott’s Nobel Prize-winning epic poem, Omeros, returns to the Sam Wanamaker stage.
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Birdsong author Sebastian Faulks discusses new novel in a London literary talk at Lutyens and Rubinstein bookshop.
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Don't miss this British Academy Hilary Mantel talk, where the writer will discuss her hero Thomas Cromwell.
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The Cocktail Party, T.S Eliot's prose play is revived at in the newly-refurbished Print Room Theatre for autumn 2015.
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At the invitation of 5x15, Mary Beard discusses her new book S.P.Q.R at the Royal Geographic Society.