{"title": "The Shoplifter's Monologue book launch & performative reading by Silvia Bombardini", "start": "2026-11-21T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T19:00:00Z", "place": "Tenderbooks", "address": "Cecil Court 6, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/drama"], "description": "A book launch with a performative reading celebrates the publication of The Shoplifter's Monologue, a short play published as the first title by Editions Semblance. The event features a reading by the author, with a performance at 6pm. The play is set at the turn of the 20th century and centres on its sole character, Lisa, and her reasons and techniques for stealing. It draws on research into shoplifters' clothes of that era and considers the silence of female criminals in the historical archives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-shoplifters-monologue-book-launch-performative-reading-b-130585/", "official_url": "https://tenderbooks.co.uk/blogs/events-window/shoplifters-monologue", "image": "https://noky.io/images/33a0af74d50680b9c88428fc2ff5aeaf7732ce15be782b7d96b3aade0fe5659b-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-21T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T19:00:00Z", "place": "Tenderbooks", "address": "Cecil Court 6, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Holly Stars 'Missing in Soho' Signing", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Quaker Bookshop", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/crime"], "description": "An evening of talk, discussion and book signing with Holly Stars at the Quaker Bookshop. The author presents their new book 'Missing in Soho', a mystery detective story set in London's Soho. It follows drag queen Misty Divine as she tries to solve who stabbed private investigator Sylvester Green. The bookshop can be browsed before the talk and discussion, followed by the signing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/holly-stars-missing-in-soho-signing-41927/", "official_url": "https://bookshop.quaker.org.uk/holly-stars-missing-in-soho-signing-2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2de0446de0026c5193027df19b6954ab970d1ba9e555a63bdf4683969727746e-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Leaf Thief Storytime & Crafts", "start": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "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/storytime", "art/crafts"], "description": "The Leaf Thief Storytime & Crafts is a story-time and craft session for children aged 18 months to 7 years. Pickled Pepper Books runs it, and it centres on a seasonal, squirrel-focused story about a leaf thief on the loose. The session costs £5.50 per child, with £5 of that redeemable on a book on the day. It takes place at Pickled Pepper Books, a bookshop on Middle Lane in Crouch End, London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-leaf-thief-storytime-crafts-41824/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dbff90212358630fffbe51f3dc6eababd70b5d6c35160653465f67163491e9cf-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Stolen! Theft in the archives", "start": "2026-10-12T09:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-18T19:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/archives", "society/crime"], "description": "\"Stolen! Theft in the archives\" is an exhibition at the LSE Library Gallery, open to all. It is hosted by LSE Library and curated by an international team, including Hannah Boroudjou, Daniel Brambilla-Payne, Chelsea Collison, and Silvia Gallotti. The exhibition explores theft in different forms: wealth taken by others, ideas obscured by the published record, and robbed legacies, showing how theft shapes what we remember and what we forget. It features stories on Harriet Taylor Mill, documents from the investigation into the murder of socialist MP Giacomo Matteotti, student research on Marxism, Hansa Mehta's possible connection to LSE, the Fabian Society, AI, and more.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/stolen-theft-in-the-archives-37075/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed61683bee0719d155b5dab914a666bd4712cc8f6b612d04395b93da2e902193-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Literal Translation (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-19T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£8", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art", "comedy"], "description": "The Literal Translation is a bilingual, autobiographical show combining gender-fluid prose, verse, comedy and song, with some foolhardy attempts at actual French. It is written and performed by performance poet Alice d'Lumiere, who was inspired by failing to order a coffee in French while performing at a festival in Avignon. The piece is a playful, silly but absurdly honest response to that failure, about late life learning, shifting identity, non-conforming voices and romanticizing the exotic. The show runs for 60 minutes and is recommended for ages 16 and up, contains some mild swearing, and is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-literal-translation-voila-festival-60544/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-literal-translation/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/abbf8c57494617636871f208b5545ec5ce0a76cebfd31253d112086f42d5e235-1200.webp"}]}