{"title": "Book Launch - Josette's Secret by Odette Elliott", "start": "2026-11-15T14:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T16:30:00Z", "place": "Cricklewood Library", "address": "NW2 6UY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/childrens-books"], "description": "A family-friendly literary event celebrating the launch of a newly published children's historical novel. Local author Odette Elliott presents Josette's Secret, set in France in the years just after the Second World War, combining history, mystery and adventure. 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The book is the sequel to her popular 2024 novel, The Café on Manor Lane. It is historical fiction set in the 1950s, following Zeb, a Hungarian Resistance fighter who flees to London in the aftermath of the failed revolution. No booking is needed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/author-event-amelia-kyazze-95187/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Coffee and Crime with Josie Lloyd", "start": "2026-11-06T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Manor Farm Library", "address": "", "price": "£2", "price_from": "2.00", "price_to": "2.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/crime", "occasion/christmas"], "description": "A festive coffee event with a crime theme, open to adults. 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She recalls her feelings while wandering in the empty apartment as though a threat were ever-present, reconnecting with the past of her own family, victims of the Holocaust.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/reading-group-74190/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/reading-group-on-quand-tu-ecouteras-cette-chanson-by-lola-lafon/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6ebd0d770ac3fca0edd9cefc227dcd5b5fc7af19818a33c44d4b2d7a234a265e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "From Book to Screen", "start": "2026-11-05T10:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£6/pupil or £3 film only & free for teachers", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/wwii"], "description": "A full school day at the Institut français immersing pupils in French culture, with a linguistic or cultural activity in the morning and a film screening in the afternoon for school groups from Year 6 to Year 8. It is run by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni's Language Centre, whose School Activities Manager Agathe Morisse can be contacted for details. The morning offers a language activity around the French comic book Les Enfants de la Resistance or a library session on books adapted for the screen. In the afternoon pupils watch Les Enfants de la Resistance, Christophe Barratier's 2025 film with Gérard Jugnot, Artus and Lucas Hector, in which three brave children resist the Nazis in the heart of France during the German occupation in World War II.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/from-book-to-screen-74183/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/from-book-to-screen-3/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/05913a05b0404bdc39f75d9e360886c44f67154f3ab32f5cc3cab4046cf46c9f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Story Time: Shadow Theatre", "start": "2026-11-14T11:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "member £5, non-member £7 (only kids need a ticket)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word/storytelling"], "description": "Story Time: Shadow Theatre is a storytelling session for children aged 3 to 8, held in the Bibliothèque Quentin Blake of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni. 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She discusses her new novella The Case of the Christmas Card, in which Charles Dickens travels to 2024 and visits his former home at 48 Doughty Street, along with time travel, crime fiction, her series 'The Frozen People' and writing about Christmas. The event lasts about 60 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/time-travelling-with-dickens-with-elly-griffiths-35244/", "official_url": "https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/in-conversation-with-elly-griffiths", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab5b9d6ffab9f0d3aafd0c16e954b99dc8594c1fb1969ea0542060b83be5ba45-600.webp"}, {"title": "Storytime and Craft with Hollie Hughes!", "start": "2026-11-14T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T12:00:00Z", "place": "Nomad Books", "address": "Fulham Road 781, SW6 5HA London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["literature/childrens-books", "nature"], "description": "A storytime and craft session for young children at Nomad Books. Children's author Hollie Hughes reads from her picture book The Green Child, illustrated by Britta Teckentrup, which celebrates the cycle of the seasons and curiosity about the natural world. The reading is followed by a craft activity inspired by the magic of the forest. No booking is needed, and it is suitable for ages 3+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/storytime-and-craft-with-hollie-hughes-41778/", "official_url": "https://nomadbooks.co.uk/events/storytime-and-craft-with-hollie-hughes/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/748b0d1e173e85428c71cc3ddf7601bb8c0a8ac94a48f243ac9d3b89529a57a1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jonathan Coe: Lessons in Harmony", "start": "2026-11-09T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Backstory", "address": "Balham High Road 71, SW12 9AP London", "price": "£15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/historical-fiction", "music/classical"], "description": "An evening with bestselling author Jonathan Coe at Backstory, a bookshop on Balham High Road in London, where he talks about his writing career and his new novel. It is his third visit to Backstory. The novel, Lessons in Harmony, is set in 1907 in Belle Epoque Paris and follows a decades-long friendship between composers Maurice Ravel and Ralph Vaughan Williams, told through Ravel's devoted acolyte Mylo. As the shadow of war approaches, the two friends pursue their vocation through one of history's most turbulent but creative periods, while their differing senses of national identity raise the question of whether these liberate or constrain them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jonathan-coe-lessons-in-harmony-40989/", "official_url": "https://backstory.london/products/9th-november-7-30pm-jonathan-coe-lessons-in-harmony", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7e6dc54c8a644281ad40244828660f6ddd56d15c81644b0036457618b46a9dfa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Forest Diary Workshop with Lottie Saakho", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T14:45:00Z", "place": "The Sheen Bookshop", "address": "375 Upper Richmond Rd W, London SW14 7NX, UK", "price": "£2.00", "price_from": "2.00", "price_to": "2.00", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["nature"], "description": "A nature-themed craft session for children aged 7 to 12, held at The Sheen Bookshop. Lottie Saakho hosts the fun, interactive workshop and will talk about her new book. The booking fee can be redeemed against the price of the book.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/forest-diary-workshop-with-lottie-saakho-83088/", "official_url": "https://www.hewsonbooks.co.uk/event-info/forest-diary-workshop-with-lottie-saakho-1", "image": "https://noky.io/images/86565294ca9239be508389d0f46e7b146f0dcb628c8d1182469b6c69917d4bad-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Spotkanie Biblioteki Polskiej POSK – Kazimierz Moczarski „Rozmowy z katem”", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Polish Social and Cultural Association", "address": "King Street 238-246, W6 0RF London", "price": "Wstęp wolny", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii", "literature"], "description": "An event in the series of the Polish Library at POSK, held in the library's reading room. Elżbieta Moczarska will talk about the English edition of Kazimierz Moczarski's book \"Rozmowy z katem\", published in English as \"Conversations with an Executioner: '255 Days with the Nazi who Destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto'\", translated by Sean Gasper Bye. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/spotkanie-biblioteki-polskiej-posk-kazimierz-moczarski-rozmo-70200/", "official_url": "https://posk.org/event/10-11-spotkanie-biblioteki-polskiej-posk-kazimierz-moczarski-rozmowy-z-katem/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cba1a50bef4c986b0b3d8d721f8778ca8a9b0da4d974ebda44cc1a94b3c98f1a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Make pop-up Christmas cards with Hide-and-Seek Santa author Marta Altés", "start": "2026-11-14T15:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pickled Pepper Books", "address": "Middle Lane 10, London", "price": "£10.99 per child (with their grown up!), includes a copy of the book; £5.50 per sibling", "price_from": "10.99", "price_to": "10.99", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art/crafts/paper-crafts", "literature/childrens-books"], "description": "A children's event at Pickled Pepper Books where author Marta Altés reads her new book Hide-and-Seek Santa, in which Santa hides in a card. Afterwards, children aged 2-9 make pop-up Christmas cards, just in time to send to friends and family or frame for the wall. Each child's ticket includes a copy of the book.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/make-pop-up-christmas-cards-with-hide-and-seek-santa-author-70134/", "official_url": "https://www.pickledpepperbooks.co.uk/collections/events/products/make-pop-up-christmas-cards-with-hide-and-seek-santa-author-marta-altes-sat-14th-nov-3pm", "image": "https://noky.io/images/692906bd00a1caf4668baa0ab8c448c8383169449b3c326f753c60d9e2e3331f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Zog Storytime & Crafts - Ages 2-7", "start": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pickled Pepper Books", "address": "Middle Lane 10, London", "price": "€6,69", "price_from": "5.50", "price_to": "5.50", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["literature/childrens-books"], "description": "A storytime and crafts session for children aged 2 to 7 at Pickled Pepper Books. The booksellers read Zog by the much loved team of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, about the keenest yet most accident-prone dragon in Madam Dragon's school, followed by a craft activity. Each child's ticket includes £5 redeemable against books on the day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/zog-storytime-crafts-ages-2-7-41827/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1fb049f3473486772cfe4eb19fa59d6c381a142aab84a8ec9417631b43b53e38-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Under 5s in French at Marylebone Library (in-person)", "start": "2026-11-02T10:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Church Street Library", "address": "Church Street 67, NW8 8EU London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["literature/poetry/nursery-rhymes"], "description": "A fun monthly session of rhymes in French for children under five and their parents or carers. It is held at the library, and there is no need to book, just turn up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/under-5s-in-french-at-marylebone-library-in-person-80596/", "official_url": "https://www.westminster.gov.uk/event/under-5s-french-marylebone-library-person", "image": ""}]}