Salon London

12/09/2022

Tonight! Don’t miss the digital launch of Natalie Haynes: Stand Up Classicist's brilliant new book Stone Blind LIVE on the Salon digital stage in partnership with WOW - WOW - Women of the World Festival. Tickets start from £3 and it'll be live captioned by Mycleartext: bit.ly/3QjP11q

Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes review – a gripping Gorgon retelling

The writer and classicist’s rollicking fourth novel, a reframing of the myth of Perseus and Medusa, questions our perception of the monsters and the heroes

07/09/2022

Coming up! On 12th September, the rock star classicist, nation’s great muse, Transmission Prize winner and Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of 'A Thousand Ships’ Natalie Haynes: Stand Up Classicist is LIVE on Salon’s Digital Stage in partnership with WOW - Women of the World Festival to launch her extraordinary new book 'Stone Blind: Medusa’s Story’.

Natalie will be in convo with Salon's Helen Bagnall and there will be plenty of time for audience questions. Plus! If you buy a copy of the book with your ticket, you can join a live online signing with Natalie after the event.

Tickets start from £3 and it’ll be live captioned by Stagetext /Mycleartext. Come along and be part of this great, digital celebration of Natalie’s work…
https://bit.ly/3QjP11q

20/08/2022

The rock star classicist, nation’s great muse, Transmission Prize winner and Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of 'A Thousand Ships’ Natalie Haynes: Stand Up Classicist is LIVE on our Digital Stage on 12th September in partnership with WOW - Women of the World Festival to launch her extraordinary new book 'Stone Blind: Medusa’s Story' which retells Medusa story as you have never heard it before.

This is the story of how a young woman became a monster, and how she was never really a monster at all. So join us on 12th September at 8pm for this special digital launch of Natalie’s new novel and hear how the author brought the story of Medusa to light as part of her ongoing quest to reimagine Greek myths from female perspectives.

Natalie will be in conversation with Salon's Helen Bagnall and there will be plenty of time for audience questions. Plus if you buy a copy of the book with your ticket, you can join a live online signing with Natalie after the event.

Tickets start from £3 and the event will be live captioned by .insta/. Come along and be part of this great, digital celebration of Natalie’s work…

Natalie Haynes - the rock star classicist, nation’s great muse, Transmission Prize winner and Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships – is LIVE on the Salon London Digital Stage in partnership with WOW - Women of the World’s WOW Presents series to launch her extraordinary new bo...

13/01/2022

We're all bombarded with advice about what we should and shouldn't eat, and new scientific discoveries are announced every day. Yet the more we are told about nutrition, the less we seem to understand.

So why not come along and join us on 18th January as Tim Spector, the Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King's College London, ground-breaking bestselling author of THE DIET MYTH and creator of the COVID Symptom Study app, is live on the Salon Digital stage and revealing why almost everything we've been told about food is wrong.

Book on the Salon for £7 or grab our early bird ticket option that includes the Salon (and a watch back function), the SPOON-FED book and postage for just £16.

We are all bombarded with advice about what we should and shouldn't eat, and new scientific discoveries are announced every day. Yet the more we are told about nutrition, the less we seem to understand.

05/01/2022

Happy New Year to you all. We'll be starting our year of Digital Salon London tonight - 5th January - with a scientific look at how your mindset can influence results - on everything from how to maximise a workout, how to better handle anxiety, the happiness conundrum, the value of negative emotions, to how tasty and indulgent your food is. Juliet Russell will be in conversation with the award winning science writer David Robson about his myth-busting new book The Expectation Effect tonight at 20.00. Come and join us, or we'd love to get the book to you for a January read......

You’ve probably heard of the placebo effect and how sugar pills can accelerate healing. But did you know that your overall expectations of your fitness can influence your risk of an actual heart attack? That labels for diet foods can make you hungrier than if you had eaten nothing at all? Or that ...

10/11/2021

Leading data visualisation expert and author of the best selling 'Information is Beautiful' David McCandless is on the digital Salon London stage tonight....

Here his is with his wonderful 'what's the best dog breed' according to data....

Hmm wonder what the cat one looked like....

Join us tonight......details on the Salon London page....

What are the best dog breeds according to data on dog intelligence, longevity & health? How does that tally with public popularity of various dog breeds?

06/11/2021

We've just learned the terrible news that the self-described 'Second best origami expert in the UK', Mark Bolitho, is no longer with us. A humble, funny, all-round lovely man who frequently graced the Salon stage with equal measures of his knowledge and wit. We will miss you greatly ###.

06/08/2021

Juliet Russell and Helen Maus take to the Wilderness stage with the Gigantic ideas of 2021

10/05/2021

Live in five: it's Natalie Haynes: Stand Up Classicist https://digital.salon-london.com/player/2846bfb1-ddea-4e50-bebd-8089f9932ffb

13/04/2021

Just spoke to Catherine Mayer ahead of our Salon about her book 'Good Grief. Embracing Life at a Time of Death' next Wednesday 21st April. Her story is so personal (she lost her husband 41 days after her Mum lost her husband) but there is so much that is universal about grief in her book, and she wants much more conversation about the subject, for reasons she'll explain.

So hope - if this is a subject that touches you or peopel close to you that you feel you can join us for the Salon, or remember you can watch any time you like.

“Grief is more than the price of love. It is love. We must learn not just to live with it, but to embrace it.”

04/03/2021

Salon London's Helen Maus is joining a superb line up on the digital stage at Malvern Festival of Ideas this weekend:

Malvern Festival of Ideas is a multidisciplinary festival of ideas that takes place in Malvern, Worcestershire, but in 2021 will be an online event. It is a themed weekend of talks, discussion and activities. In 2021, the title of the Festival is Unity and Diversity. Over recent years there has been...