LONDON LIBRARY MEMBERSHIP OFFER

Writers room£100 off your first year of membership

For 176 years, The London Library has provided a haven for those wishing to write, read and research. With four beautiful reading rooms, plus many desks nestled amongst the book stacks around the building, The London Library is the perfect place in which to be inspired and put pen to paper.

We’re delighted to offer a special membership offer of £100 off your first year of membership of The London Library

Membership benefits include:

  • Extensive online publications and resources (including JSTOR) available anywhere, anytime
  • Generous borrowing allowances and long loan periods
  • Over one million books across 17 miles of open shelving
  • Postal loans across the UK and Europe
  • 2,000 subjects in over 50 languages
  • Spaces for reading, writing, study and more
  • Subscriptions to over 750 current periodicals, news and magazine titles
  • Quarterly members' magazine, monthly e-newsletter and diary of events
  • Supporting the future of an important independent institution which is reliant on member fees and donations    

To take advantage of this offer, please click here to join online.

(This offer is not available to current or previous members of the Library, is for annual direct debit payment only and valid until Thursday 29 March 2018).

CHURCHILL'S MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE

With Giles Milton

Thursday 15 March 2018, 6.30-8.30pm, Reading Room

Giles Milton gives an illustrated talk on Winston Churchill's inner circle of sabotage experts who planned some of the most audacious attacks of the Second World War.

Giles Milton is the best-selling author of ten works of narrative history, including his most recent, Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. His book have been translated into more than twenty languages.

18:30 - Doors open

19:00 to 20:00 - Talk

20:30 - Event ends

For more information and to book, click here

This event is open to both members and non-members of The London Library

 

CITYREAD: THE MUSE BY JESSIE BURTON

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Thursday 31 May 2018, 6.30-8.30pm, Reading Room

Jessie Burton in conversation with Cathy Tyson and interviewed by Sam Baker celebrating the power of reading for this year’s Cityread London. Cityread brings the capital together every May, uniting London over a single book. 2018's book is The Muse by Jessie Burton.

18:30 - Doors open

19:00 to 20:00 - Talk

20:30 - Event ends

This event is open to both members and non-members of The London Library

About Jessie Burton

Jessie Burton is the author of two novels, The Miniaturist (2014), and The Muse (2016), published in 38 languages. Both were Sunday Times no.1 bestsellers, New York Times bestsellers, and Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. The Miniaturist was adapted for BBC One to wide acclaim in December 2017.
 
As a non-fiction writer, she has written essays for The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, Vogue, Elle, Red, Grazia, Lonely Planet Traveller and The Spectator. Harpers Bazaar US and Stylist have published her short stories.

Jessie's first novel for children, The Restless Girls, will be published in September 2018. Found In Translation, her personal essay on Brexit, will appear in Goodbye Europe, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in November 2017.

Jessie lives in London and is working on her second novel for children, and her third novel for adults.

 

 

DUNKIRK: THE HISTORY BEHIND THE MOTION PICTURE

image memorial with JLWith Joshua Levine

Thursday 26 April 2018, 6.30-8.30pm, Reading Room

Joshua Levine looks at the extraordinary personal stories of the people caught up in the dramatic events of the Dunkirk evacuation.

18:30 - Doors open

19:00 to 20:00 - Talk

20:30 - Event ends

This event is open to both members and non-members of The London Library

 

 
  1. CHURCHILL'S MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE
  2. "HIDDEN 25%" HEALTH WARNING
  3. signup thank you
  4. MARY SHELLEY AND THE BIRTH OF FRANKENSTEIN
  5. signup problem

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