Our friends at @greenwichtheatre have put together a most incredible show, "The Secret Life of Ophelia," which you can watch on their YouTube channel until 14 Aug. See the big finish with Dame Helen Mirren! youtube.com/watch?v=1YuKc7…

Happy Publication Day to our co-founder Alex Pheby, whose astounding new novel "Mordew" is out today. Buy it directly from our friends Galley Beggar Press.

This is a tough development for all authors and publishers - and small presses. Tabletops are heaving, review spaces are vanishingly rare - so if you do pick up a new book by an indie author, and love it, please make all the noise you can. It will help! theguardian.com/focus/2020/aug…

First they said they needed data about the children to find out what they’re learning. Then they said they needed data about the children to make sure they are learning. Then the children only learnt what could be turned into data. Then the children became data.

Monday at 7 pm you can join our friends at Comedy Women In Print to find out who is the wittiest of them all. Everyone is invited! Go to their YouTube channel to see the live event at youtu.be/wSEoRVURoAU

Some great audio book selections for the log dark nights ahead from our director Patricia Nicol

Delighted that @moniqueroffey published by indie Peepal Tree Press has won overall Costa for The Mermaid of Black Conch. I asked to review for Sunday Times Culture in the early summer and found it an immensely rewarding reading experience. Transporting...even when you’re stuck at home

Congratulations to our founding director Alex Pheby, and his publisher @galleybeggars, for making the longlist of the Republic of Consciousness Prize with the novel "Mordew." Well done, Alex!

Happy #WorldBookDay ! For some, it might feel like a regular day. For others (like us), it feels like Christmas Day all over again. Official World Book Day lllustrations by Rob Biddulph (GBF17)

Our friend @DapsDraws (GBF19) illustrated this year's absolutely stunning Books Are My Bag tote. We love it and can't wait until we get to fill it with books in October.

The Greenwich Book Festival will be back in 2023! We look forward to hosting all sorts of events for every kind of book lover next summer. See you then!

Join our friends at Woolwich Centre Library to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee. 👑Schedule below. 📚

In 2017, Sarah Perry came to our festival to talk about her novel "The Essex Serpent." Read her essay on how it felt when the novel was turned into a mini-series for Apple TV with Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston. theguardian.com/books/2022/may…

Many congratulations to our friends Knights Of ! Such a well-deserved honour for such a hard-working team.

Creative writing fans! (And if you follow us, we hope you are) Our friends at Spread the Word & @greenwichlibs are hosting a FREE creative writing workshop at Eltham Centre Library on 16 June at 2-4 pm. A BSL interpreter will be there. Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/greenwich-ci…

This is such sad news. The Costa Book Awards were a brilliant boost to authors, the book industry and book lovers (all the best people). We hope this isn't really the end, and that a new sponsor is found soon.

Here's to 2023 and the return of Greenwich Book Festival

FREE BOOKS! (Do we have your attention now?) Come along to this free creative writing workshop Thursday at 2 pm at Eltham Library, then listen to local authors. Free copies of the "City of Stories" anthology, featuring fab London authors, will be there for the taking.

All the congratulations (and champagne) to our friends at Galley Beggar Press for making the Booker Prize longlist again, this time for “After Sappho” by Selby Wynn Schwartz. We’re so happy for you! A much-deserved honour.