Books
Last few days to catch ArchWay With Words
The acclaimed book festival’s got an impressive line-up over the coming days
Caitlin Moran’s How to be Famous: ‘I want to let this whole city know how sexual I am’
An extract from the best-selling author’s new north London-set novel
5 local places that inspired author Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Her debut novel The Tyranny of Lost Things is a ‘love letter’ to this part of London
From Prince of Wales Baths to… swimming the Channel
After a decade of trying to become a mother, local writer Jessica Hepburn decided to achieve something else instead. So she swam the Channel
MUST DO: Idler Festival, Fenton House NW3
Oh my! Wandering minstrels, beekeeping, dancing lessons, calligraphy – and of course, street food
MUST DO: Queen’s Park bookfest, open-air Shakespeare & Zabludowicz
A weekend literary festival in NW6, outdoor plays in NW1 and filmmaker Ericka Beckman in NW5
Astérix in Britain comes to Jewish Museum, Camden
New retrospective on the life and works of René Goscinny reaches NW1
Spend an evening with Alan Bennett
The literary legend stars at a fundraising night for local charity C4WS next week
‘My rackety childhood as an orphan’: Genevieve Fox on how to write memoir
The Tufnell Park author had to confront the one thing she feared most when faced with a cancer diagnosis
MUST DO: Kentish Town’s poetry HQ. Plus pop-up opera in a hospital?
Theatre, opera and poetry performance: three things to consider this weekend
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