In partnership with 5x15, five acclaimed speakers celebrate The London Library's gloriously eccentric Science & Miscellaneous section.
This event is available to view as a recording until 13 June. Tickets can be purchased below.
The London Library’s Science and Miscellaneous section, housed in its iron-grille-floored 1890s Back Stacks, has its own unique and gloriously idiosyncratic classification system, designed for browsers and book explorers to make unexpected discoveries. Disparate subjects jostle up against each other in wonderfully evocative juxtapositions – Death, Dentistry and Devil &c or Post Office, Poultry, Predictions, for example.
To celebrate the Library’s wild heart, we have teamed up with 5x15 to bring five acclaimed speakers, each sharing their Science & Miscellaneous-inspired stories. Featuring historian Suzannah Lipscomb on 'Witchcraft', novelist and screenwriter David Nicholls on 'Aquarium', novelist Naomi Ishiguro on 'Friendship', poet Raymond Antrobus on 'Deaf &c' and writer and engineer Yassmin Abdel-Magied on 'Fuel'.
In partnership with 5x15
Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese-Australian writer, broadcaster, engineer and social advocate. Her books are Yassmin’s Story, a memoir and You Must Be Layla, fiction for younger readers. She has essays in the bestselling It’s Not About The Burqa and The New Daughters of Africa and she is a Trustee of The London Library.
Raymond Antrobus FRSL is a poet and children’s author. His 2018 collection The Perseverance won multiple awards, including the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Ted Hughes Award, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year and the Somerset Maugham Award. All the Names Given will be published later this year.
Suzannah Lipscomb is an award-winning historian, author, and broadcaster. Her books include 1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII, the Ladybird Expert book Witchcraft and The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc.
David Nicholls is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His novels include the global bestseller One Day, Starter for Ten, The Understudy, Us and Sweet Sorrow. His adaptation of Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels for television won the 2019 BAFTA for Best Mini-Series.
Naomi Ishiguro’s first novel, Common Ground, is published in March 2021. Her collection of stories, Escape Routes, was published in spring 2020. She studied writing at the University of East Anglia and was formerly a bookseller and bibliotherapist at Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath.
5x15 is one of the UK's leading producers of public-facing spoken-word events. Founded by Rosie Boycott, Daisy Leitch and Eleanor O’Keeffe, 5x15 brings world leading figures to speak to audiences to spark ideas and inspiration.
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