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Tue 26 Oct 21 · Ben’s Book Club: ‘Incomparable World’ by S I Martin (Benjamin Franklin House, London)
Thu 9 May 19 · Song in the Novel (Guildhall School, London)
Wed 25 Apr 18 · The Firbank Beneath My Foot (Newport Branch of the Gwent Family History Society, Newport)
Wed 15 Nov 17 · Deborah Cadbury and Queen Victoria's Matchmaking (Bloomsbury Institute, London)
Thu 26 Jan 17 · The Finest Beards in the Ladybird Archive (Florence Nightingale Museum, London)
Tue 17 Jan 17 · We Need to talk about Lionel Shriver (Cecil Sharp House, London)
Thu 29 Sep 16 · Rose Tremain: Forty Years On (British Library, London)
Thu 22 Sep 16 · Banned Books Week: Censorship and the Author (British Library, London)
Sun 19 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions, A Place Called Home (British Library, London)
Sun 19 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions, The Authenticity Paradox (British Library, London)
Sun 19 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions, The Very Thought of It: Ideas and Literature (British Library, London)
Sun 19 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions, Narratives of Fear (British Library, London)
Sat 18 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions (British Library, London)
Sat 18 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions,Utopia: The Impossible Dream? (British Library, London)
Sat 18 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions, Shakespeare reimagined: Jeanette Winterson on the Gap of Time (British Library, London)
Sat 18 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions, All the World’s a Story (British Library, London)
Sat 18 Jun 16 · The Folio Academy Sessions, Not Even Past: Historical Narratives (British Library, London)
Sat 28 May 16 · Signifying Nothing? The Creative Revolution of Punk (British Library, London)
Sat 21 May 16 · London is the Place for me (British Library, London)
Sat 21 May 16 · London is the Place for me, Caribbean Book Club (British Library, London)
Sat 21 May 16 · London is the Place for me, London Liming: Independence! (British Library, London)
Sat 21 May 16 · London is the Place for me, The James Berry Archive (British Library, London)
Sat 21 May 16 · London is the Place for me, We Need to Talk About Independence (British Library, London)
Sat 5 Mar 16 · Anna Kavan's Fictional Worlds (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)
Thu 9 Jul 15 · Untold Stories, Unheard Voices: On Diversity in Literature (Bloomsbury Institute, London)
Tue 23 Jun 15 · Bloomsbury Book Club with Hannah Rothschild (Bloomsbury Institute, London)
Thu 14 May 15 · Bloomsbury Book Club with Polly Samson (Bloomsbury Institute, London)
Mon 16 Feb 15 · The WG Sebald Lecture: AL Kennedy (British Library, London)
Sat 7 Jun 14 · Room&Book: What Makes A Book Rare Today? (ICA, London)
Wed 21 May 14 · Short Stories with Tim Winton (Royal Academy of Arts, London)
Mon 17 Mar 14 · The Devil is a Gentleman (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Mon 17 Mar 14 · The chronicler of Ferrera (Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Fri 6 Dec 13 · Discovering People: Yotam Ottolenghi (Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)
Tue 3 Dec 13 · Modern Art in Churches (Museum of London, London)
Tue 26 Nov 13 · Reading for Pleasure (Museum of London, London)
Mon 30 Sep 13 · Lairs of Cthulhu: The Hollywood years (Treadwell's Books, London)
Fri 30 Aug 13 · RA Book Club - Courtney Collins: ‘The Burial’ (Royal Academy of Arts, London)
Thu 4 Jul 13 · The Scarlet Letter (Treadwell's Books, London)
Wed 24 Oct 12 · A celebration of Patrick Leigh Fermor – Lecture with Colin Thurbron and Artemis Cooper (Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London)
Wed 10 Oct 12 · Fifty Shades of Grey: mummy porn or feminist crisis? (Friends Meeting House, Brighton)
Wed 11 Jul 12 · A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution (The Mosaic Rooms, London)
Wed 30 May 12 · YOUSSEF COURBAGE: The Arab World – From the Demographic to the Democratic Revolution (The Mosaic Rooms, London)
Tue 8 May 12 · Next Year Will be Better - A Personal Memoir of the 1950s (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Thu 29 Mar 12 · China Inside Out (English PEN, London)
Sat 18 Feb 12 · In Memoriam (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)
Sat 4 Feb 12 · Million for a Morgue (Dalhousie Building, Dundee)
Sat 28 Jan 12 · Death: Southbank Centre's Festival for the Living - Saturday Festival Day Pass (Southbank Centre, London)
Sun 9 Oct 11 · Bryan Talbot – Grandville and the Anthropomorphic Tradition (The French Institute, London)
Sat 8 Oct 11 · Dave Gibbons & Jean-Claude Mézières – Science Fiction!!! (The French Institute, London)
Sat 8 Oct 11 · Audrey Niffenegger – On Aubrey Beardsley (The French Institute, London)
Fri 7 Oct 11 · China Miéville – My Graphic Gods (The French Institute, London)
Thu 29 Sep 11 · IRISH AND WELSH PERIODICALS: TWIN TRADITIONS (Hesperia Hotel, London)
Wed 18 May 11 · Dorian Gray: Queer, Gothic, Occult (Treadwell's Books, London)
Sat 19 Feb 11 · The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Sat 19 Feb 11 · Mirrors of Violence: Representations of Conflict in Contemporary Subcontinental Literature (Wolfson Theatre, London)
Sat 19 Feb 11 · Crossing Borders- Andrew Motion in conversation with Rebecca Jones (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Sat 19 Feb 11 · Writing Across Borders- a Botswana Perspective (Alumni Theatre, London)
Thu 17 Feb 11 · Adaptation in an age of Digitisation: its fans, practitioners and foes (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Tue 15 Feb 11 · JCC LIt Cafe: Arab–Israeli Book Review (Joseph’s Bookstore, London)
Wed 6 Oct 10 · The Rights' Future (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Mon 2 Aug 10 · The Quest for Meaning (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Thu 3 Jun 10 · Writers on the Run (London Jewish Cultural Centre, London)
Wed 26 May 10 · JCC Lit Cafe- Coming Out in Fiction (The Magdala, London)
Tue 11 May 10 · Islam Quintet: Night of the Golden Butterfly (Old Theatre, London)
Mon 26 Apr 10 · Creative Writing (London Jewish Cultural Centre, London)
Fri 23 Apr 10 · Decadent Fantasia: Modern Images of Closed Space and Open Sex (Portland Building, Portsmouth)
Thu 15 Apr 10 · Virginia Woolf (London Jewish Cultural Centre, London)
Mon 29 Mar 10 · Pushkin, the Russian Autocracy and Rebellion (Marx Memorial Library, London)
Wed 10 Mar 10 · Mind-Body Problems: Science, Fiction, and God (London School of Economics & Political Science, London)
Wed 27 Jan 10 · The business of writing – today and tomorrow (a two-module event) (Own-it, 272 High Holborn)
Tue 26 Jan 10 · UCL Lunch Hour Lecture (UCL, London)
Wed 9 Dec 09 · Romantic women writers and the fictions of history: Sarah Green, Jane West and Jane Porter (Chawton House Library, Alton)
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