After a 2-month hiatus spent reading Finnegans Wake (alright, would you believe rubbish romance novels?), The Book Grocer returns, with a continually evolving format and its diary stuffed full with book-ish events. Here are our picks for the week: Tuesday: Anne Sebba, author of Jennie Churchill, Winston’s American Mother, in conversation with Hugh Whitemore, playwright and writer of the Emmy-award winning Winston Churchill drama The Gathering Storm, at Waterstone’s Notting Hill Gate store, 7pm,......

Five years after the success of "Strange and Beautiful", famously used in a car advert, Aqualung (aka 35 year old singer-songwriter Matt Hales) takes to the stage of Shepherds Bush's elegant Bush Hall. It's almost a wonder that we're here at all - his UK profile has dwindled over the years, and history threatened to write him off as a one hit wonder. When all seemed lost, his career has recently been rejuvenated by......

With just about every festival announced so far selling out in record time we're not even sure if there are any tickets left for July's Sommerset House Summer Series, but they're on sale from this morning with the line up as folows: 6th: Divine Comedy and Bell X1 7th: Jose Gonzalez 10th: Robert Plant and The Strange Sensation, and Orange Blossom 11th: Damian Marley 12th: Corinne Bailey Rae 13th: Elbow 14th and 15th: Erykah......