Upcoming Events and Exhibitions

In this new exhibition Anthony Luvera: Taking Place cultural placemakers Futurecity present two bodies of Luvera’s work: Photographs from Assembly (2013 – 2014) and responses from Frequently Asked Questions (2014 – ongoing). This work invites you to consider the narratives and dimensions that can be shared through a collaborative approach to creating art.

Following on from last year’s sold out event at our Charing Cross Rd branch, British writer and activist Mariam Khan and a panel of guest speakers return to pick up the conversation, and discuss the last twelve months since the publication of the game-changing It’s Not About The Burqa. The event is part of a week of female-focused talks, discussions and debates in the run up to International Women’s Day on Sunday 8th March.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has now been cancelled.

Join us at our Charing Cross Road branch for a truly unique event, as two rabbis discuss fame, fortune, Brexit, and other issues facing us today in a talk entitled 'Where lies the strength, brother?'.

Foyles is proud to present an event in celebration of the Women's Prize for Playwriting, a brand new award co-created by Ellie Keel Productions and Paines Plough.

Join Noughticulture creator Alice Vincent and author Lucy Jones as they explore the connection between nature and our mental and physical well-being and introduce their new books Rootbound and Losing Eden. The event is part of a week of female-focused talks, discussions and debates in the run up to International Women’s Day on Sunday 8th March.

We’re delighted to be teaming up with author and philosopher Julian Baggini and the Royal Institute of Philosophy to bring you The London Lectures—a series of wide-ranging talks by experts in the field of Social Epistemology. In this talk Katharine Jenkins, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham explores the topic of consent and how sexual violence is perpetrated, and by whom. The event takes place during a week of female-focused talks, discussions and debates in the run up to International Women’s Day on Sunday 8th March.

Come and meet author and illustrator Poonam Mistry (You’re Safe With Me) as she stops by to decorate the balcony overlooking our flagship Charing Cross Road Children’s section with illustrations from her book How The Stars Came To Be.

Join us as we celebrate the launch of Serena Patel's debut children's book, Anisha, Accidental Detective!

Join us for March’s instalment of our hugely popular NYJO Jazz Jam. This session will be lead by co-leader and founder of the award winning Empirical, Shane Forbes.

Celebrate the work of avant-garde Krautrock kings Kraftwerk with author Uwe Schütte and music journalist David Stubbs, discussing a new cultural history of the group Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany.

Join us at our Charing Cross Road branch the Life Line Fund presents a conversation between writer Dmitry Bykov and cultural historian, BBC broadcaster, Russia’s Big Book Prize jury member Alexander Kan as part of the Read Russia programme.

Join us at our Charing Cross Road branch as Samokat publishing launches two new books, Trans-Siberian and The Apartment.

We are thrilled to introduce the second in our new series of Debut Fiction evenings at our flagship Charing Cross Road branch—focusing on some of the most hotly anticipated novels and extraordinary new literary voices hitting bookshelves in 2020. Hear from highly acclaimed author Alex Allison as he sits down with poet, playwright and radio producer Tom Wentworth to discuss his thrilling debut The Art of the Body.

We’re delighted to be teaming up with author and philosopher Julian Baggini and the Royal Institute of Philosophy to bring you The London Lectures—a series of wide-ranging talks by experts in the field of Social Epistemology. In this talk Hugo Mercier demonstrates we are skilled at evaluating all sorts of messages, and that persuading people en masse is incredibly difficult.

Join us at our Charing Cross Road branch as Professor Boris Trofimov talks about Velimir Khlebnikov’s classic work Zangezi.

We are delighted to welcome award-winning publisher Verve Poetry Press for an evening of live poetry to celebrate the publication of two stunning new pamphlets from rising stars of contemporary poetry: Big Sexy Lunch from Roxy Dunn and Hotel from Ali Lewis.

Celebrate the impact of one of the UK’s most renowned artists and designers David Gentleman in an evening of conversation spanning 70 years of iconic work, and marking the publication of his exquisite new book of London images My Town: An Artists Life in London.

Explore feminism and class divides with authors Lola Olufemi and Ben Tippet from Pluto Press’ inspiring Outspoken series—a thought-provoking collection of political books for young people, platforming underrepresented voices, revealing powerful histories and unravelling the debates around some of the most contentious topics of our age— sex ed and masculinity, feminism and class, and work and borders.

Join us for the 2020 instalment of the Nu Jazz Moves series with leading creative producers and talent development agency, Tomorrow’s Warriors, showcasing the next generation of game-changing jazz artists to hit the London scene. This session will feature jazz collective KOMA.

Join the NYJO Academy ensembles on their swinging end of spring term concert.

We are thrilled to introduce the next installment in our new series of Debut Fiction evenings at our flagship Charing Cross Road branch—focusing on some of the most hotly-anticipated novels and extraordinary new literary voices hitting bookshelves in 2020. Join award-winning author Intan Paramaditha as she opens the pages of her magical, literary choose-your-own-narrative novel The Wandering—Winner of an English PEN Translates Award, and the PEN America/ Heim Translation Fund Grant.

Drawing on over a decade’s worth of experience working as a foreign correspondent reporting from within numerous conflict zones, award-winning author and journalist Christina Lamb introduces us to her devastating new reportage Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women—an incendiary, angry and excoriating account of the scale of sexual violence in modern conflict.

In this myth-busting evening of discussion, writer and editor Lizzie Huxley-Jones joins authors Laura James and Rachael Lucas to discuss creativity and writing, and to celebrate the eye-opening stories, essays and artwork collected in her new book Stim: An Autistic Anthology.

We are thrilled to welcome award-winning author Olivia Laing to our flagship Charing Cross Road shop to talk about her eclectic new collection of writings Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency.

We are thrilled to introduce the next instalment in our new series of Debut Fiction evenings at our flagship Charing Cross Road branch—focusing on some of the most hotly-anticipated novels and extraordinary new literary voices hitting bookshelves in 2020. In the next part of the series, we welcome Naomi Ishiguro as she talks about her extraordinary debut story collection Escape Routes.

Take a journey to the end of the world with Wellcome Prize-winning author of To Be a Machine Mark O’Connell in an evening of discussion about his hilarious and harrowing new book Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back.

One of Instagram’s funniest and brightest stars Raven Smith comes to our Charing Cross Road branch to talk about his brand new book, Raven Smith’s Trivial Pursuits with journalist and author Joel Golby.

Join us for the 2020 instalment of the Nu Jazz Moves series with leading creative producers and talent development agency, Tomorrow’s Warriors, showcasing the next generation of game-changing jazz artists to hit the London scene. This session will feature vocalist and songwriter Loucin.

Join us for April’s instalment of our hugely popular NYJO Jazz Jam. This session will be lead by improvisational jazz trio Partikel.

We are thrilled to introduce the next instalment in our new series of Debut Fiction evenings at our flagship Charing Cross Road branch—focusing on some of the most hotly-anticipated novels and extraordinary new literary voices hitting bookshelves in 2020. In the next part of the series, we welcome Paul Mendez—one of The Observer’s 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2020—as he takes us on a time-sliding trip through the West Midlands, and dives deep into the pages of his mesmerising intersectional debut Rainbow Milk.

Join critically acclaimed American photographer and Guggenheim Fellow Jason Fulford (The Photographers Playbook) for a uniquely up-close and personal performance lecture in celebration of his stunning new monograph Picture Summer on Kodak Film.

Gain a rare insight into the inner workings of Silicon Valley with former insider turned critic Wendy Liu as she joins journalist and Assistant Opinion Editor at the Guardian Hettie O’Brien to debunk the myths of the tech industry—the basis of her eye-opening new critique Abolish Silicon Valley.

Set up in honour of influential publisher Klaus Flugge of Andersen Press, Foyles is proud to host this year’s Klaus Flugge Prize shortlist announcement awarded to the most promising and exciting newcomer to children’s picture book illustration.

Spend an evening in the company of one of the most influential contemporary photographers Stephen Shore as he joins writer and curator Lou Stoppard for a rare UK event to launch his stunning archive of 35mm Kodachrome images Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1973-1982.

Join us for the 2020 instalment of the Nu Jazz Moves series with leading creative producers and talent development agency, Tomorrow’s Warriors, showcasing the next generation of game-changing jazz artists to hit the London scene. This session will feature the Tomorrow’s Warriors Soon Come Orchestra.

Join us for the 2020 instalment of the Nu Jazz Moves series with leading creative producers and talent development agency, Tomorrow’s Warriors, showcasing the next generation of game-changing jazz artists to hit the London scene. This session will feature the talented emerging band Uphoria.

Join us for the 2020 instalment of the Nu Jazz Moves series with leading creative producers and talent development agency, Tomorrow’s Warriors, showcasing the next generation of game-changing jazz artists to hit the London scene. This session will feature tenor saxophonist and composer Maddy Coombs.

Join us for the 2020 instalment of the Nu Jazz Moves series with leading creative producers and talent development agency, Tomorrow’s Warriors, showcasing the next generation of game-changing jazz artists to hit the London scene. This session will feature tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer Ayodeji Ijishakin.