London’s oldest independent Islamic bookshop is at risk of closing within a year owing to declining footfall and the rise of online shopping platforms. Founded in 1985 by the Egyptian publisher Samir... Read more »
A joke about punctuation has been chosen as the funniest in a competition run by the Beano comic. Year 5 pupils at Riverley primary school in Leyton, east London, won the accolade... Read more »
Curry houses, grocery stores, textile shops, and bilingual street signs: All pepper the street known as Banglatown—Brick Lane, East London’s iconic Bangladeshi neighborhood. Wandering among a throng of Bengali locals and international... Read more »
Authors and other publishing industry professionals will stage a demonstration outside Meta’s London office today in protest of the organisation’s use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence. Source link Read more »
Northern writers still face a struggle to make it in the London-centric literary world, the organisers of a regional literary prize have said. Claire Malcolm, founder and chief executive of New Writing... Read more »
A celebration of the author Martin Amis, who died last May aged 73, is due to be held in London next month. Friends, family and colleagues of Amis will gather at St... Read more »
Armistead Maupin is just where he wants to be. But that’s not where you might expect. The writer who made his name as the bard of San Francisco – or at least an earlier incarnation of it,... Read more »
A west London library has had to temporarily close after bedbugs were found in returned books. It was announced on Monday that Northolt library in West Ealing would be closed until the... Read more »