2007 is quickly slipping away, and with it the few remaining book events for the year. As most of us are busy buying books for the bibliophiles on our shopping lists rather than reading or going to signings this week, we thought we’d present you with an alternative Book Grocer today. For those of you already finished with your shopping (you overachievers you), the traditional listings follow. If, like Londonist, you go for the......

New London Architecture is, officially, Londonist’s favourite gallery/ museum/studio-type thing. For those who have not visited, it’s a compact exhibition space on Store Street (off Tottenham Court Road) for showcasing London’s buildings. You can just walk right in for free, like you own the city. They’ve just updated their centrepiece model of London, and opened a new temporary exhibition about the future of shopping. A series of panels and models explores the numerous alternatives......

Naming babies after where they were conceived or where they born is slightly embarrassing. If the former, then it's rather too much information to present strangers with your child Pizza Hut Fire Escape. If it's the latter then there is the risk of bringing up a child called Minicab or Somewhere Between Car Park and Maternity Ward. Risky though it is, sometimes it can just about work in the child's favour. 32 year old......

The public both hate and love it when an apparently well-paid 'celebrity' tries to get something on the cheap. Look at what happened to Richard Madeley when he was accused of trying to shoplift a bottle of bubbly from Tescos. That was ten years ago and he's still reviled by a lot of people (ok, so admittedly there's more to the revulsion that just the shoplifting, but you get the idea). Then there's Winona......