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5x15 events supported by Newham Bookshop
Monday 1 December at 7 pm at The Tabernacle
5x15 welcomes a line-up of
inspiring speakers and fascinating stories
in December, from histories of
deafness and learning how to
love, to the healing nature
of plants and animals.
Raymond Antrobus
The Quiet Ear
An Investigation of Missing Sound
Monday 1 December at 7 pm at The Tabernacle
5x15 welcomes a line-up of
inspiring speakers and fascinating stories
in December, from histories of
deafness and learning how to
love, to the healing nature
of plants and animals.
John Crace
The Bonfire of the Insanities
How Does This Government
Thing Work Again?
Monday 1 December at 7 pm at The Tabernacle
5x15 welcomes a line-up of
inspiring speakers and fascinating stories
in December, from histories of
deafness and learning how to
love, to the healing nature
of plants and animals.
Jay Griffiths
How Animals Heal Us
Monday 1 December at 7 pm at The Tabernacle
5x15 welcomes a line-up of
inspiring speakers and fascinating stories
in December, from histories of
deafness and learning how to
love, to the healing nature
of plants and animals.
Stephen Grosz
Love’s Labour
Monday 1 December at 7 pm at The Tabernacle
5x15 welcomes a line-up of
inspiring speakers and fascinating stories
in December, from histories of
deafness and learning how to
love, to the healing nature
of plants and animals.
Mary Keen
Diary of a Keen Gardener
Past events this year, most recent first
Past event held on Monday 17 November
Join 5x15 for a special event
on the value of knowledge in
an age of disinformation, in partnership
with Leverhulme Trust & EXPeditions
Naoíse Mac Sweeney
The West
A New History of an Old Idea
Past event held on Monday 17 November
Join 5x15 for a special event
on the value of knowledge in
an age of disinformation, in partnership
with Leverhulme Trust & EXPeditions
Simon Reid-Henry
Empire of Democracy
The Remaking of the West
since the Cold War, 1971-2017
Past event held on Monday 17 November
Join 5x15 for a special event
on the value of knowledge in
an age of disinformation, in partnership
with Leverhulme Trust & EXPeditions
Simon Goldhill
Queer Cambridge
An Alternative History
Past event held on Monday 17 November
Join 5x15 for a special event
on the value of knowledge in
an age of disinformation, in partnership
with Leverhulme Trust & EXPeditions
Tiffany Watt Smith
Bad Friend
A Century of
Revolutionary Friendships
Past event held on Monday 27 October
5x15 is back at The
Tabernacle in October with a
line-up of award-winning authors and
speakers! Join them for an
evening of captivating stories.
Esther Freud
My Sister and Other Lovers
Past event held on Monday 27 October
5x15 is back at The
Tabernacle in October with a
line-up of award-winning authors and
speakers! Join them for an
evening of captivating stories.
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Scapegoat
The Brilliant Brief Life of
the Duke of Buckingham
Past event held on Monday 27 October
5x15 is back at The
Tabernacle in October with a
line-up of award-winning authors and
speakers! Join them for an
evening of captivating stories.
Jeremy King
Without Reservation
Lessons from a Life in Restaurants
Past event held on Monday 27 October
5x15 is back at The
Tabernacle in October with a
line-up of award-winning authors and
speakers! Join them for an
evening of captivating stories.
Philippe Sands
38 Londres Street
On Impunity, Pinochet in England
and a Nazi in Patagonia
Past event held on Monday 27 October
5x15 is back at The
Tabernacle in October with a
line-up of award-winning authors and
speakers! Join them for an
evening of captivating stories.
David Gilmour
Luck and Strange
Studio/Live
Photographs by
Polly Samson
Past event held on Monday 29 September
5x15’s new season kicks off
at The Tabernacle in September
with a line-up of acclaimed
authors and thought-provoking stories!
Laura Bates
The New Age of Sexism
How the AI Revolution
is Reinventing Misogyny
Past event held on Monday 29 September
5x15’s new season kicks off
at The Tabernacle in September
with a line-up of acclaimed
authors and thought-provoking stories!
Geoff Dyer
Homework
A Memoir
Past event held on Monday 29 September
5x15’s new season kicks off
at The Tabernacle in September
with a line-up of acclaimed
authors and thought-provoking stories!
James Fox
Craftland
A Journey Through Britain’s Lost
Arts and Vanishing Trades
Past event held on Monday 29 September
5x15’s new season kicks off
at The Tabernacle in September
with a line-up of acclaimed
authors and thought-provoking stories!
Sam Dalrymple
Shattered Lands
Five Partitions and the
Making of Modern Asia
Past event held on Monday 29 September
5x15’s new season kicks off
at The Tabernacle in September
with a line-up of acclaimed
authors and thought-provoking stories!
Ian Leslie
John & Paul
A Love Story in Songs
Past event held on Monday 29 September
5x15’s new season kicks off
at The Tabernacle in September
with a line-up of acclaimed
authors and thought-provoking stories!
Olia Hercules
Strong Roots
A Ukrainian Family Story through
War, Exile and Hope
Past event held on Tuesday 9 September
The last session in the
5x15’s Earth Convention series, Land
and Soil, features Isabella Tree
and an esteemed line-up of
environmental thinkers
Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell
The Book of Wilding
A Practical Guide to
Rewilding, Big and Small
Past event held on Tuesday 9 September
The last session in the
5x15’s Earth Convention series, Land
and Soil, features Isabella Tree
and an esteemed line-up of
environmental thinkers
Isabella Tree
Wilding
How to Bring Wildlife
Back – An
Illustrated Guide
Illustrated
by Angela Harding
Past event held on Tuesday 9 September
The last session in the
5x15’s Earth Convention series, Land
and Soil, features Isabella Tree
and an esteemed line-up of
environmental thinkers
Thomas Halliday
Otherlands
An illustrated journey through
Earth’s lost worlds
Illustrated by
Gavin Scott
Past event held on Tuesday 9 September
The last session in the
5x15’s Earth Convention series, Land
and Soil, features Isabella Tree
and an esteemed line-up of
environmental thinkers
Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
Our Oaken Bones
Reviving a Family, a Farm
and Britain’s Ancient Rainforests
Past event held on Monday 23 June
5x15 are back at The Tabernacle
for a summer event, featuring a
stellar line-up of speakers! Join them
for an evening of gripping and
inspiring stories.
Kaliane Bradley
The Ministry of Time
Past event held on Monday 23 June
5x15 are back at The Tabernacle
for a summer event, featuring a
stellar line-up of speakers! Join them
for an evening of gripping and
inspiring stories.
John Harris
Maybe I’m Amazed
A Story of Love and
Connection in Ten Songs
Past event held on Monday 23 June
5x15 are back at The Tabernacle
for a summer event, featuring a
stellar line-up of speakers! Join them
for an evening of gripping and
inspiring stories.
Robert Harris
Precipice
Past event held on Monday 23 June
5x15 are back at The Tabernacle
for a summer event, featuring a
stellar line-up of speakers! Join them
for an evening of gripping and
inspiring stories.
De Kai
Raising AI
An Essential Guide to
Parenting Our Future
Past event held on Monday 23 June
5x15 are back at The Tabernacle
for a summer event, featuring a
stellar line-up of speakers! Join them
for an evening of gripping and
inspiring stories.
Larry Lamb
All Wrapped Up
Past event held on Tuesday 17 June
5x15’s Earth Convention Live series
with Greenbank continues, featuring a
superb line-up on Oceans and
Rivers, including George Monbiot, Tom
Mustill and Helen Scales.
George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
The Invisible Doctrine
The Secret History of Neoliberalism
(& How It Came to
Control Your Life)
Past event held on Tuesday 17 June
5x15’s Earth Convention Live series
with Greenbank continues, featuring a
superb line-up on Oceans and
Rivers, including George Monbiot, Tom
Mustill and Helen Scales.
Tom Mustill
How to Speak Whale
A Voyage into the
Future of Animal Communication
Past event held on Tuesday 17 June
5x15’s Earth Convention Live series
with Greenbank continues, featuring a
superb line-up on Oceans and
Rivers, including George Monbiot, Tom
Mustill and Helen Scales.
Helen Scales
What the Wild Sea Can Be
The Future of
the World’s Ocean
Past event held on Monday 19 May
The Guardian
environment editor Jonathan
Watts explores the legacy of
journalist Dom Phillips and his
pioneering work in the Amazon
rainforest.
Jonathan Watts
The Many Lives of James Lovelock
Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory
Past event held on Monday 19 May
The Guardian
environment editor Jonathan
Watts explores the legacy of
journalist Dom Phillips and his
pioneering work in the Amazon
rainforest.
Gaia Vince
Nomad Century
How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
Past event held on Monday 19 May
The Guardian
environment editor Jonathan
Watts explores the legacy of
journalist Dom Phillips and his
pioneering work in the Amazon
rainforest.
Dom Phillips and contributors
How to Save the Amazon
A journalist’s deadly
quest for answers
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
5x15 comes to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
for a unique live event on the
wonders of trees and their enduring beauty
across art and culture.
Elif Shafak
There are Rivers in the Sky
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
5x15 comes to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
for a unique live event on the
wonders of trees and their enduring beauty
across art and culture.
Elif Shafak
The Island of Missing Trees
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
5x15 comes to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
for a unique live event on the
wonders of trees and their enduring beauty
across art and culture.
Tristan Gooley
How to Read a Tree
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
5x15 comes to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
for a unique live event on the
wonders of trees and their enduring beauty
across art and culture.
Tristan Gooley
The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs
The Art of Making
Predictions & Deductions
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
5x15 comes to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
for a unique live event on the
wonders of trees and their enduring beauty
across art and culture.
Tristan Gooley
How To Read Water
Clues & Patterns from
Puddles to the Sea
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
5x15 comes to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
for a unique live event on the
wonders of trees and their enduring beauty
across art and culture.
Jonathan Drori
Around the World in 80 Plants
Illustrated by
Lucille Clerc
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
5x15 comes to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
for a unique live event on the
wonders of trees and their enduring beauty
across art and culture.
Jonathan Drori
Around the World in 80 Trees
Illustrated by
Lucille Clerc
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
5x15 comes to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
for a unique live event on the
wonders of trees and their enduring beauty
across art and culture.
Kevin Martin
Trees
Kew Pocketbooks
Past event held on Tuesday 8 April
5x15 and Greenbank bring The
Earth Convention to a live
audience! Join us to hear
world-leading historian Peter Frankopan and
a stellar panel.
Peter Frankopan
The Earth Transformed
An Untold History
Past event held on Tuesday 8 April
5x15 and Greenbank bring The
Earth Convention to a live
audience! Join us to hear
world-leading historian Peter Frankopan and
a stellar panel.
Mike Berners-Lee
A Climate of Truth
Why We Need It and How To Get It
Past event held on Tuesday 8 April
5x15 and Greenbank bring The
Earth Convention to a live
audience! Join us to hear
world-leading historian Peter Frankopan and
a stellar panel.
Siddarth Shrikanth
The Case for Nature
Pioneering Solutions for
A Planetary Crisis
Past event held on Thursday 3 April
Bestselling author Emma Donoghue takes
us on a train journey
through 19th century Europe, in
her thrilling new novel
The
Paris Express
, in conversation with
Alex Clark.
Emma Donoghue
The Paris Express
Past event held on Monday 17 March
Join 5x15 at The Tabernacle
in March with another fantastic
line-up of speakers and an
inspiring evening of storytelling.
Katherine Rundell
Impossible Creatures
Past event held on Monday 17 March
Join 5x15 at The Tabernacle
in March with another fantastic
line-up of speakers and an
inspiring evening of storytelling.
Nick Makoha
The New Carthaginians
Past event held on Monday 17 March
Join 5x15 at The Tabernacle
in March with another fantastic
line-up of speakers and an
inspiring evening of storytelling.
Suzanne O’Sullivan
The Age of Diagnosis
Sickness, Health and Why Medicine
Has Gone Too Far
Past event held on Monday 17 March
Join 5x15 at The Tabernacle
in March with another fantastic
line-up of speakers and an
inspiring evening of storytelling.
Jonathan Sumption
The Challenges of Democracy
And the Rule of Law
Past event held on Monday 24 February
Celebrating 5x15’s fifteenth birthday with
an evening of captivating stories,
from a truly stellar line-up
of speakers
Jonathan Freedland
King Winter’s Birthday
Illustrated by
Emily Sutton
Past event held on Monday 24 February
Celebrating 5x15’s fifteenth birthday with
an evening of captivating stories,
from a truly stellar line-up
of speakers
Harriet Walter
She Speaks!
What Shakespeare’s Women
Might Have Said
Past event held on Monday 24 February
Celebrating 5x15’s fifteenth birthday with
an evening of captivating stories,
from a truly stellar line-up
of speakers
Chloe Dalton
Raising Hare
Past event held on Monday 24 February
Celebrating 5x15’s fifteenth birthday with
an evening of captivating stories,
from a truly stellar line-up
of speakers
Theresa Lola
Ceremony for the Nameless
Past event held on Thursday 13 February
5x15 English Heritage: Celebrating
London’s Blue Plaques
Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Cloudspotting For Beginners
Illustrated by
William Grill
Past event held on Thursday 13 February
5x15 English Heritage: Celebrating
London’s Blue Plaques
Meera Sodha
Dinner
120 vegan and vegetarian recipes
for the most important meal
of the day
Past event held on Thursday 13 February
5x15 English Heritage: Celebrating
London’s Blue Plaques
Philippa Gregory
Normal Women
Making History for 900 Years
Past event held on Tuesday 14 January
Bestselling author Chris van Tulleken
joins Rosie Boycott for an
eye-opening conversation about food.
Chris van Tulleken
Ultra-Processed People
Why Do We All Eat
Stuff That Isn’t Food… and
Why Can’t We Stop?
5x15 events
supported by Newham Bookshop
Monday 1 December at 7 pm at The Tabernacle
5x15 welcomes a line-up of
inspiring speakers and fascinating stories
in December, from histories of
deafness and learning how to
love, to the healing nature
of plants and animals.
Raymond Antrobus
The Quiet Ear
An Investigation of Missing Sound
Monday 1 December at 7 pm at The Tabernacle
5x15 welcomes a line-up of
inspiring speakers and fascinating stories
in December, from histories of
deafness and learning how to
love, to the healing nature
of plants and animals.
John Crace
The Bonfire of the Insanities
How Does This Government
Thing Work Again?
Monday 1 December at 7 pm at The Tabernacle
5x15 welcomes a line-up of
inspiring speakers and fascinating stories
in December, from histories of
deafness and learning how to
love, to the healing nature
of plants and animals.
Jay Griffiths
How Animals Heal Us
Monday 1 December at 7 pm at The Tabernacle
5x15 welcomes a line-up of
inspiring speakers and fascinating stories
in December, from histories of
deafness and learning how to
love, to the healing nature
of plants and animals.
Stephen Grosz
Love’s Labour
Monday 1 December at 7 pm at The Tabernacle
5x15 welcomes a line-up of
inspiring speakers and fascinating stories
in December, from histories of
deafness and learning how to
love, to the healing nature
of plants and animals.
Mary Keen
Diary of a Keen Gardener
Past events this year,
most recent first
Past event held on Monday 17 November
Naoíse Mac Sweeney
The West
A New History of an Old Idea
Past event held on Monday 17 November
Simon Reid-Henry
Empire of Democracy
The Remaking of the West
since the Cold War, 1971-2017
Past event held on Monday 17 November
Simon Goldhill
Queer Cambridge
An Alternative History
Past event held on Monday 17 November
Tiffany Watt Smith
Bad Friend
A Century of
Revolutionary Friendships
Past event held on Monday 27 October
Esther Freud
My Sister and Other Lovers
Past event held on Monday 27 October
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Scapegoat
The Brilliant Brief Life of
the Duke of Buckingham
Past event held on Monday 27 October
Jeremy King
Without Reservation
Lessons from a Life in Restaurants
Past event held on Monday 27 October
Philippe Sands
38 Londres Street
On Impunity, Pinochet in England
and a Nazi in Patagonia
Past event held on Monday 27 October
David Gilmour
Luck and Strange
Studio/Live
Photographs by
Polly Samson
Past event held on Monday 29 September
Laura Bates
The New Age of Sexism
How the AI Revolution
is Reinventing Misogyny
Past event held on Monday 29 September
Geoff Dyer
Homework
A Memoir
Past event held on Monday 29 September
James Fox
Craftland
A Journey Through Britain’s Lost
Arts and Vanishing Trades
Past event held on Monday 29 September
Sam Dalrymple
Shattered Lands
Five Partitions and the
Making of Modern Asia
Past event held on Monday 29 September
Ian Leslie
John & Paul
A Love Story in Songs
Past event held on Monday 29 September
Olia Hercules
Strong Roots
A Ukrainian Family Story through
War, Exile and Hope
Past event held on Tuesday 9 September
Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell
The Book of Wilding
A Practical Guide to
Rewilding, Big and Small
Past event held on Tuesday 9 September
Isabella Tree
Wilding
How to Bring Wildlife
Back – An
Illustrated Guide
Illustrated
by Angela Harding
Past event held on Tuesday 9 September
Thomas Halliday
Otherlands
An illustrated journey through
Earth’s lost worlds
Illustrated by
Gavin Scott
Past event held on Tuesday 9 September
Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
Our Oaken Bones
Reviving a Family, a Farm
and Britain’s Ancient Rainforests
Past event held on Monday 23 June
Kaliane Bradley
The Ministry of Time
Past event held on Monday 23 June
John Harris
Maybe I’m Amazed
A Story of Love and
Connection in Ten Songs
Past event held on Monday 23 June
Robert Harris
Precipice
Past event held on Monday 23 June
De Kai
Raising AI
An Essential Guide to
Parenting Our Future
Past event held on Monday 23 June
Larry Lamb
All Wrapped Up
Past event held on Tuesday 17 June
George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
The Invisible Doctrine
The Secret History of Neoliberalism
(& How It Came to
Control Your Life)
Past event held on Tuesday 17 June
Tom Mustill
How to Speak Whale
A Voyage into the
Future of Animal Communication
Past event held on Tuesday 17 June
Helen Scales
What the Wild Sea Can Be
The Future of
the World’s Ocean
Past event held on Monday 19 May
Jonathan Watts
The Many Lives of James Lovelock
Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory
Past event held on Monday 19 May
Gaia Vince
Nomad Century
How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
Past event held on Monday 19 May
Dom Phillips and contributors
How to Save the Amazon
A journalist’s deadly
quest for answers
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
Elif Shafak
There are Rivers in the Sky
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
Elif Shafak
The Island of Missing Trees
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
Tristan Gooley
How to Read a Tree
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
Tristan Gooley
The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs
The Art of Making
Predictions & Deductions
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
Tristan Gooley
How To Read Water
Clues & Patterns from
Puddles to the Sea
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
Jonathan Drori
Around the World in 80 Plants
Illustrated by
Lucille Clerc
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
Jonathan Drori
Around the World in 80 Trees
Illustrated by
Lucille Clerc
Past event held on Wednesday 14 May
Kevin Martin
Trees
Kew Pocketbooks
Past event held on Tuesday 8 April
Peter Frankopan
The Earth Transformed
An Untold History
Past event held on Tuesday 8 April
Mike Berners-Lee
A Climate of Truth
Why We Need It and How To Get It
Past event held on Tuesday 8 April
Siddarth Shrikanth
The Case for Nature
Pioneering Solutions for
A Planetary Crisis
Past event held on Thursday 3 April
Emma Donoghue
The Paris Express
Past event held on Monday 17 March
Katherine Rundell
Impossible Creatures
Past event held on Monday 17 March
Nick Makoha
The New Carthaginians
Past event held on Monday 17 March
Suzanne O’Sullivan
The Age of Diagnosis
Sickness, Health and Why Medicine
Has Gone Too Far
Past event held on Monday 17 March
Jonathan Sumption
The Challenges of Democracy
And the Rule of Law
Past event held on Monday 24 February
Jonathan Freedland
King Winter’s Birthday
Illustrated by
Emily Sutton
Past event held on Monday 24 February
Harriet Walter
She Speaks!
What Shakespeare’s Women
Might Have Said
Past event held on Monday 24 February
Chloe Dalton
Raising Hare
Past event held on Monday 24 February
Theresa Lola
Ceremony for the Nameless
Past event held on Thursday 13 February
Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Cloudspotting For Beginners
Illustrated by
William Grill
Past event held on Thursday 13 February
Meera Sodha
Dinner
120 vegan and vegetarian recipes
for the most important meal
of the day
Past event held on Thursday 13 February
Philippa Gregory
Normal Women
Making History for 900 Years
Past event held on Tuesday 14 January
Chris van Tulleken
Ultra-Processed People
Why Do We All Eat
Stuff That Isn’t Food… and
Why Can’t We Stop?
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