Events

The Information Animal w/ Alicia Wanless

5 Jun 2025 – 18:00 CEST
Prismatic Pages

Join Alicia Wanless, in conversation with Samar Abbas Nawaz, about Alicia’s timely new book The Information Animal: Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality.

The National Debt w/ Martin Slater

6 Jun 2025 – 18:00 - 19:00 BST
York Festival of Ideas (online)

Join Martin Slater, author of ‘The National Debt: A Short History’ for an online discussion of his book at the York Festival of Ideas. 

Awake! w/ Mark Vernon and The Idler

12 Jun 2025 – 18:00 - 19:00 BST
The Idler (online)

Join “A Drink with the Idler” as we chat to the Idler’s Head of Philosophy Mark Vernon about William Blake’s importance for today. 

Ramping Up Rights w/ Rachel Charlton-Dailey

16 Jul 2025 – 18:30 - 20:30 BST
The Scarlett Letters Bookshop

Join us for an evening with award-winning disabled journalist and activist Rachel Charlton-Dailey, as they discuss their powerful debut book, Ramping Up Rights: An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism.

Awake! w/ Mark Vernon and Nigel Warburton

19 Jul 2025 – 11:00 - 12:00 BST
Blackwell's Oxford

Join Mark Vernon, author of Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination, and philosopher Nigel Warburton for a morning of Philosophy in the Bookshop. They will discuss the themes of Mark’s new book.