Events
Our forthcoming events are listed below. We would love to see you here, but seating is very limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. All the events cost £5 and include wine. Call or email the bookshop on 020 7229 1010, bookshop@lutyensrubinstein.co.uk to reserve your tickets or email tara@lutyensrubinstein.co.uk for more information.
CANCELLED – Al Alvarez in conversation with Philippe Sands QC
With great regret, we have to announce that this event will no longer be going ahead.
CANCELLED – Alexander MacLeod in conversation with Rupert Thomson
With great regret, we have to announce that this event will no longer be going ahead.
Chad Harbach on The Art of Fielding
The Art of Fielding has been one of the most talked about first novels of the last decade as well as a personal favourites with staff and customers. At Westish College, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for the big leagues until a routine throw goes disastrously off course. His error will upend the fates of five people. A gorgeous, big-hearted story of youth, friendship and the danger of growing up.
‘It’s left a little hole in my life the way a really good book will’ – Jonathan Franzen
Kate Summerscale discusses Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace
Kate Summerscale is the author of the bestselling The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher (2008), which was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and The Queen of Whale Cay (1997), which won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award. She has also judged various literary competitions including the Booker Prize.
Her latest book – Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace – is a compelling story of romance and fidelity, insanity, fantasy, and the boundaries of privacy in a society clinging to rigid ideas about marriage and female sexuality.
We also sell books at the fantastic 5×15 events at the Tabernacle in Powis Square, W11. Please visit their website for more information.
Monday 23rd April 2012
Ben Macintyre discussed Double Cross
Thursday, 19th April 2012
Peter Stamm discussed Seven Years with Adam Thirlwell
Wednesday, 21st March 2012
Philip Gross was in conversation with Adam Phillips
Wednesday, 14th March 2012
Sadakat Kadri was in conversation with Barnaby Rogerson
Wednesday, 22nd February 2012
John Fuller was in conversation with Adam Phillips
Thursday, 9th February 2012
Lavinia Greenlaw was in conversation with Ted Hodgkinson of Granta Magazine
Tuesday, 31st January 2012
Laura Del-Rivo and Michael Horovitz were in Conversation with Julian Mash
Tuesday, 22nd November 2011
Cressida Connolly and Vendela Vida were in Conversation
Thursday, 17th November 2011
Adam O’ Riordan was in Conversation with Adam Phillips
Wednesday, 28th September 2011
Bernard O’Donoghue was in Conversation with Adam Phillips
Thursday, 23rd June 2011
Hisham Matar was in Conversation with Philippe Sands
Tuesday, 31st May 2011
Evelyn Juers discussed The House of Exile
Wednesday, 25th May 2011
John Burnside was in conversation with Adam Phillips
Monday, 23rd May 2011
Nicola Shulman discussed Graven With Diamonds with Alan Jenkins
Thursday, 19th May 2011
Wilson Stephens Jones Decorative Arts Sale
Wednesday, 11th May 2011
David Miller and David Flusfeder discussed Today and A Film By Spencer Ludwig
Wednesday, 20th April 2011
Christopher Reid was in conversation with Adam Phillips
Sunday, 10th April 2011
James Frey discussed The Final Testament of the Holy Bible with Kate Muir
Sunday, 23rd March 2011
Jennifer Egan discussed A Visit From the Goon Squad
Thursday, 17th March 2011
Jesse Norman discussed The Big Society with Anthony Fry
Wednesday, 16th March 2011
Jo Shapcott was in conversation with Adam Phillips
Wednesday, 26th January 2011
Emma Forrest discussed Your Voice in My Head with Jon Ronson
Wednesday, 24th November 2010
Geoff Dyer discussed Working The Room
Wednesday, 17th November 2010
Adam Phillips discussed On Balance
Wednesday, 3rd November 2010
Justine Picardie discussed Coco Chanel: A Life
Wednesday, 15th September 2010
Rebecca Hunt and Ned Beauman discussed Mr Chartwell and Boxer Beetle
News
We are so excited to have a new bookish piece of art on display in the shop.
Artist Serge Seidlitz has produced a limited edition of fifty hand screen-printed prints based on his own bookshelves.
We’ve enjoyed spotting the spines of our favourite books, rendered in Serge’s distinctive style.
The prints are £168 unframed, and £270 framed.
He also recently redesigned the covers for all our favourite Judy Blume novels.
We were very honoured today that Ben Macintyre was able – on publication day, no less – to come in and sign our stock of his new book Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies.
We’re already looking forward to seeing him again on the 23rd of April, when he will be here in the evening to talk about the book. We suspect it might be one of our busiest events yet, so it’s well worth booking in now by calling 020 7229 1010, or emailing bookshop@lutyensrubinstein.co.uk.
While don’t always like to remind our customers that other bookshops are available, we’re very pleased to feature again in the new edition of The London Bookshop Map.
The map lists 96 independent bookshops across London, so it’s extremely useful for booklovers, and indeed bookshops! We’ve even heard of customers attempting to visit every one.
You can pick up your copy from L&R, and their website also lists all the bookshops on a handy Google map.
As it’s a Leap Day today, we’ve been inviting customers to venture out of their comfort zones, and read a book they wouldn’t normally pick up. Obviously we believe that every book in the shop is worth a second glance, but sometimes everyone needs a bit of persuading.
So, if you wouldn’t normally read a book about sport, try The Art of Fielding, which for a book with a lot of baseball never feels too athletic.
If you’d never read a memoir, pick up Caitlin Moran’s How to Be a Woman, and laugh all the way through (except when you’re gasping in horror).
If you’ve never seen the appeal of the Scandinavian crime writers, try A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard, a Norwegian novel which isn’t a murder mystery but is gripping nonetheless.
If you’re a grown-up who’s never read any of the great children’s books that have been published since you were a child, Patrick Ness’ A Monster Calls will certainly help you see what you’ve missed out on!
And, of course, whether you’re looking for an out-of-your-comfort-zone book, or a right-in-your-comfort-zone book, come and ask us for suggestions, and we’ll always be glad to help.
With the weather outside looking positively polar, we’re marking the centenary of Scott’s fatal expedition to the Antarctic, with a small display of appropriate books.
Beryl Bainbridge’s The Birthday Boys, first published in 1991, is a particularly interesting version of events, though fictional. It tells the tale from the point of view of each of the five men, and it’s well worth a read whether you’re a Scott expert, or if you’re completely new to the topic.