London Design Festival 2026 runs 12 to 20 September. Eleven picks, what is free, what is ticketed, and the day that gets you eight.
September 11, 2026Comments are off for this post.
London Design Festival 2026: What to See
September 10, 2026Comments are off for this post.
Hospital Rooms poster sale: four prints, £100 each
Four A2 prints by Chantal Joffe, Celia Paul, Grayson Perry and Jules de Balincourt, £100 each, closing noon on Sunday. The money puts artwork on NHS mental health wards. #HospitalRooms #ArtPrints #GraysonPerry #LondonArt #SupportTheArts
September 10, 2026Comments are off for this post.
Enemies and Rascals review: inside Artangel’s strongroom
A sealed Victorian strongroom under Chancery Lane, forty minutes of voices in the dark, and the moment they all start shouting at once. Free until 18 October.
September 9, 2026Comments are off for this post.
Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum: How to Get Tickets
Last updated: 27 October 2026. I checked the booking windows and ticket prices in this Bayeux Tapestry British Museum ticket guide against the museum's own pages on 27 October 2026.
By Tristan · Arts, exhibitions and creative culture
The two dates that matter
January to March 2027 sold out after its 21 October release. The last block, April to 11 July 2027, opens to members in January 2027 and to everyone else in early 2027.
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Exhibitions2026 edit
Sold out until April, and the queue was 80,000 people long
The Bayeux Tapestry British Museum display opens on 10 September 2026 and runs to 11 July 2027, and every slot up to 31 March 2027 has already gone. So the useful question is no longer where to buy a ticket. It is how to get one at all. The last public release, for April to July 2027, lands in early 2027, membership no longer buys a new joiner what it buys an existing member, and the National Art Pass does something different again.
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September 8, 2026Comments are off for this post.
CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso Brixton Review: FREE SPIRITS Live
Sting narrates a fake wellness clinic, two Argentinians play rap, reggae, rock and then a full rave, and nobody at Brixton sits down for ninety minutes. Our first live music review, and it is a five. #ca7riel #pacoamoroso #brixtonacademy #gigreview #freespirits
September 5, 2026Comments are off for this post.
Best Audiobooks September 2026: 10 UK Listens Ranked
Last updated: 4 September 2026
By Tristan · Arts, exhibitions and creative culture
AudiobooksSeptember 2026 Edit
Ten listens, and one of them is forty hours
Here is my pick of the best audiobooks September 2026 is putting in front of UK ears, and the range is wider than usual. Marlon James arrives with a Booker longlisting and a cast of six. Richard Osman brings Nicola Walker back. China Miéville turns up at the end with forty hours and forty-three minutes.
So the order counts down from ten to one, and I ranked on two things. First, what the recording adds that the page cannot, which is why the author-read memoirs and the full-cast productions sit high. Second, whether the runtime earns the credit rather than merely spending it. Three of the ten are already out, so I have said plainly which ones those are and which I am still waiting on.
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New to audiobooks? Start with Audible
Every title below is free with an Audible credit, so the trial is the cheapest way in. Moreover, I keep the current Audible UK offer and the steps to claim it up to date on my referral page.
Missed an earlier month? These are the September 2026 picks. Every edition since March sits on my best audiobooks hub, newest first.
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August 30, 2026Comments are off for this post.
V&A LGBTQIA+ Tour Review: The Free Queer Tour Worth Planning Around
Free, monthly, unbooked and almost unknown. A queer walk through the V&A with a volunteer guide, and the case for going in person.
August 25, 2026Comments are off for this post.
Nineteen Eighty-Four Review: Our Book of the Month
Last updated: 25 August 2026
By Tristan · Arts, exhibitions and creative culture
This is an opinion piece. Views expressed are the author's own and do not constitute professional advice.
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This month I went back to a book I was made to read at sixteen and had been quietly avoiding ever since. My Nineteen Eighty-Four review, then, is really a re-reading. Orwell's last novel turns out to be a stranger, funnier and more irritating thing than the version I remembered, and the parts that have dated are not the parts everyone assumes.
It also happens to be having a moment. A new stage adaptation opens in Glasgow next week, there is a full-cast Audible production with a genuinely starry list of names, and the paperback now costs less than a pint. Here is what I made of it, and which edition I would actually put your money on.
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August 16, 2026Comments are off for this post.
Pride National Theatre Review: A Five Star Musical
Miners and lesbians and gays, 1984, one scaffold set and a room full of people openly weeping. Pride at the National Theatre is the best night we have had in a theatre this year. Lewis Cornay's Bromley alone is worth the ticket. Cool Factor 5/5. #PrideMusical #NationalTheatre #LondonTheatre #LGSM #CoolFactor
August 9, 2026Comments are off for this post.
The Odyssey IMAX 70mm Review: Worth It at BFI Waterloo?
Nolan's Odyssey on a 15-perf celluloid print at BFI Waterloo. Overwhelming craft, a career-best Matt Damon, one unforgettable Circe scene, two castings that do not work and a sound mix that buries the dialogue. Cool Factor: 4/5. #TheOdyssey #IMAX70mm #ChristopherNolan #FilmReview #BFIIMAX
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