The Writers' Hub team took themselves down to London's Southbank Centre for this year's London Literature Festival. In the first of a set of blogs about the bookish beano, Aidan Cotterell-Boyce reviews Slavoj Zizek’s talk from 5th July.

Hub team member Anna Arbiter enjoys a challenging, if messy, lecture from Jeanette Winterson, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of her debut Oranges are not the Only Fruit.

Our regular IWIE (Indian Writing In English) contributor discusses the ’a’ word in relation to literature from the sub-continent and its Diaspora.

Germaine Greer’s essay about Old Wives’ Tales prompts the Hub Editor to think about narrative and story-telling.