Events

Romance fiction is evolving beyond traditional tropes to explore identity, empowerment and unconventional love.

Join Celia Silvani to discuss her latest book – Baby Teeth - a story about the choices mothers make and the split second between having it all and losing everything.

Chris Salewicz was the senior features writer for the NME from 1975 to 1981 and an intimate friend of Strummer’s for over 25 years.

A performance event to immerse you in film, interactivity and debate.

Join us at Brixton Library for a spoken word 'Open Mic' afternoon. The mic will be open to all ages. Register to perform by emailing Tony at: tonybhappydrums@gmail.com

A performance event to immerse you in film, interactivity and debate.

The Roma is a profoundly personal portrait of a people and their on-going journey, shedding new light on their history and what it means to be Romani in Europe today.

An evening looking at the impact of Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry, his persona and lasting influence on young artists and us all. Events organised by the friends of Brixton Library.

Join Lambeth Libraries LGBTQ+ book club to discuss The Love That Dares: An Anthology of Queer Love Letters by Rachel Smith and Barbara Vesey.

In August 2021, as the Taliban approached the gates of Kabul, twenty-one women writers in Afghanistan messaged their WhatsApp group chat: they asked what news others had heard and if everyone was safe.

Solari’s photographic series is inspired by the act of travelling through environments, observing, recording and being inspired by the variety of life and landscape around us.

One morning, while shaving, the comedian Mark Steel noticed that one side of his neck seemed larger than the other.

Exhibition available during library opening hours.

A fair of 20+ stalls of fanzines, magazines, publications, artists, readers and writers with the best of the latest in small press. There is a communal zine table so you can bring along a zine you have made and we can sell it for you too.

Conjuring a remarkable voice and mind, Caret is a feast of a novel, served on a succession of small plates, each portion providing an adult's daily intake of literary nourishment.

SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in the world.

Join Suzanne Raine and Muriel Zagha for a lively and engaging discussion inspired by their podcast Garlic & Pearls, in which they tour French and British culture in 1,000 things, ideas and scents – from absinthe to tweed, from hedgero

Join novelists Mel Pennant (A Murder for Miss Hortense) and Lisa Smith (Jamaica Road) as they come together to discuss their lived experiences growing up in the tight-knit Caribbean communities of London in the 1970s and 198

Naomi Clifford explores the life of Chief Inspector Nathaniel Druscovich, the ‘golden boy’ of the Metropolitan Police detective division, who was caught up in a major corruption scandal and died in Vauxhall in disgrace.

Attica Locke is a multi-prize-winning, best-selling American crime author, television writer and producer.