Come and see The London Library, one of the UK’s greatest literary institutions, providing a centre of creativity, inspiration and ideas for 180 years. Well-known members and frequent borrowers have included:

• Charles Dickens
• Charles Darwin
• George Eliot
• Bram Stoker
• Rebecca West
• Virginia Woolf
• Angela Carter
• Daphne du Maurier
• HG Wells
• TS Eliot
• Stanley Kubrick
• Ian Fleming

Current writers in membership include Kazuo Ishiguro, AS Byatt, Raymond Antrobus, Simon Schama, Hallie Rubenhold, Tom Stoppard, Antonia Fraser, Jessie Burton and Sarah Waters. Nearly all of its collection of around one million books can be borrowed, it offers a vast eLibrary and invaluable postal loans service. The Library is championed by its President, Helena Bonham Carter CBE.   

Contact events@sog.org.uk if you have any questions.