London Literary Events - August
Discover exciting literary events to add to you calendar this August
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London is bursting with incredible literary events. Here are some of the highlights which you should add to your calendar for the last few weeks of August.
Fairyloot Live Launch with K. X. Song
Past Event
Monday 5th August 2024
18:00 - 20:00 at Waterstones, London - Covent Garden
Join Fairyloot, Hodderscape and K. X. Song for a night filled with magic to celebrate the release of her adult fantasy debut The Night Ends with Fire!
The Poppy War meets Six Crimson Cranes in this gripping crossover fantasy, inspired by Mulan and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The Three Kingdoms are at war, but Meilin's father refuses to answer the imperial draft. Trapped by his opium addiction, he plans to sell Meilin for her dowry instead - but when she discovers that her husband-to-be is violent and ill-tempered, she decides to take matters into her own hands.
The very next day, she disguises herself as a boy and enlists in her father's place.
In the army, Meilin's hard work brings her recognition, friendship - and a growing closeness with Sky, a prince turned training partner.
But as her kingdom barrels towards destruction, Meilin must decide who to trust: Sky, who inspires her loyalty and love; a sea dragon spirit with the power to grant her impossible magic; or an infuriating enemy prince who makes her question everything she once knew - about her kingdom, her loyalty and her own heart.
K. X. Song is a diaspora writer with roots in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Raised between cultures and languages, she enjoys telling stories that touch on collective memory, translation, and the shifting nature of memory and history. She is the author of An Echo in the City and The Night Ends with Fire, her adult fantasy debut.
Book your tickets for Fairyloot Live Launch With K. X. Song here.
Meet Yungblud at Waterstones Piccadilly, London
Tuesday 20th August 2024
18:00 at Waterstones, London - Piccadilly
The music phenomenon that is Yungblud will be signing copies of his new book, You Need to Exist: a book to love and destroy! This interactive journal is packed with never-before-seen art, exclusive lyrics, poems, creative prompts, and incisive questions that will push you to dig deep and celebrate what makes you different.
Book your tickets for Need to Exist: a book to love and destroy by Yungblud here.
Rouge: Mona Awad in Conversation with Naomi Alderman
Friday 23rd August 2024
18:30 - 20:00 at Waterstones, London - Gower Street
Gower Street Waterstones invites you to an exciting pairing, which will see Mona Awad in conversation with Naomi Alderman, discussing her darkly funny newest novel Rouge.
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep?
Book your tickets for Mona Awad in Conversation with Naomi Alderman here.
The Life Impossible: Matt Haig:
Fri 30 Aug 2024,
19.30 - 20:30 at The Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Center
Join Matt Haig as he presents the London launch of ‘The Life Impossible’. A novel of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning, in conversation with poet Hollie McNish.
When retired maths teacher Grace is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.
Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the Balearics, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.
Book your tickets for Matt Haigs novel launch: The Life Impossible here.
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