Here’s a guide to what has been happening this week on LLLC….. Preview of The New Normal Festival: we have shared details of the upcoming outdoor and socially distanced festival which will run at The Royal Victoria Patriotic Building in Wandsworth throughout August. Confirmed acts include: magician Ben Hart, Olivier Award winning smash-hit Showstopper! and I Wish… Read More
REVIEW: A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Nominated for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, this is a powerful and imaginative retelling of the Trojan War. Although the story of the Trojan War is well known, through either films such as Troy starring Brad Pitt or of course Homer‘s Iliad – the story has always been told from the male perspective. A story… Read More
NEWS: Shortlist Announced for Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020
The prize will be awarded in a rescheduled ceremony in September. Organisers of this year’s Women’s prize for Fiction have announced the shortlist of nominees up for the £30,000 prize. This year’s prize will see Hilary Mantel, nominated for The Mirror & the Light the concluding part to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, compete alongside Hamnet by… Read More