- Venues
- Festival Riverside Foyer (Next to Foyles Bookshop)
- In and Around the Festival
- Le Pain Quotidien
- Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall
- Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
- Queen Elizabeth Hall
- SAISON POETRY LIBRARY AT ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL
- St Paul's Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall
- The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
- The Hayward at Southbank Centre
- Themes
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Festival Riverside Foyer (Next to Foyles Bookshop)
CREATIVE WRITING TENT
Saturday, 5 July
For six days during the festival, Southbank Centre offers one-to-one scratch creative writing sessions with creative writing leading light Greg Mosse and writers from the festival.
£18 For 25 Minute Session
In and Around the Festival
SLOW READING DECKCHAIR
Saturday, 5 July
For ten days during the festival, Tom Lavery, slow living activist, reads The Idler, War and Peace and books by festival writers and invites festival goers to discuss books and play Scrabble - slowly. Look out for him around the festival site.
Admission Free (5 -19 July)
St Paul's Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall
ANDREW SEAN GREER WITH COLM TOIBIN
Sunday, 6 July
Andrew Sean Greer visits from San Francisco to read from The Story of a Marriage, an evocative novel set in 1950s America.
£7 (Concessions: 50% off, limited availability)
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Wendy Cope
Sunday, 6 July
Wendy Cope reads both classic and brand new poems from her new book Two Cures for Love – a wonderful overview of her work to date.
£9 (Concessions: 50% off, limited availability)
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
2008 CAINE PRIZE READINGS
Sunday, 6 July
Experience the finest new African writing at this annual event. Gary Younge introduces the shortlisted authors who read from and discuss their work, highlighting the extraordinary breadth of the continent’s literature.
£9 (Concessions: 50% off, limited availability)
Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall
SEBASTIAN BARRY
Monday, 7 July
Sebastian Barry reads from and discusses The Secret Scripture, which beautifully illustrates the character of Ireland through its people and places.
£7 (Concessions: 50% off, limited availability)
St Paul's Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall
KATE CLANCHY
Monday, 7 July
Kate Clanchy discusses What Is She Doing Here? her memoir of the five years she spent living closely with Antigona, a Kosovan refugee
£7 (Concessions: 50% off, limited availability)
Queen Elizabeth Hall
TONY BENN & DAVID DAVIS ON DEMOCRACY
Monday, 7 July
Two giants of British politics debate the meaning of democracy at a time when it has never felt more urgent. Tony Benn left parliament in 2001 after 50 years to ‘devote more time to politics’.
£10 (Concessions: 50% off, limited availability)
Queen Elizabeth Hall
THE HAYWARD CELEBRATES 40
Wednesday, 9 July
On the 40th anniversary of The Hayward, Zaha Hadid, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Dennis Compton, one of the gallery’s original architects, join a distinguished group of artists and architects in a discussion.
£8 (Concessions: 50% off, limited availability)
Le Pain Quotidien
BUNS AND CAKES AND GINGER BEER: JANE BROCKET’S HIGH TEA TREAT
Thursday, 10 July
Come and feast at Jane Brocket’s splendid High Tea Treat, a special tea-time feast at Le Pain Quotidien.
£5 (Children 12 years and under), £10 (Adults)
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