The City of Luxembourg (Ville de Luxembourg – VdL) and the Luxembourg City Library have announced two events featuring British authors as part of the “Literary Tuesdays” programme for 2026.
The first event will take place on Tuesday 27 January 2026, at 18:30 in the City Auditorium of Cercle Cité in Luxembourg-Ville and will feature British author Claire Lynch, who will read from her novel A Family Matter, which was shortlisted for the Nero Prize for debut fiction and longlisted for the Aspen Literary Prize.
The event is organised in collaboration with Bookclub Between the Lines, who will also moderate the conversation with the author. A brief Q&A will follow the reading and will end with a book signing. Further information is available at https://citybiblio.lu/event/mardis-litteraires--claire-lynch.
The second event will take place on Tuesday 17 February 2026, at 18:30 in the City Auditorium of Cercle Cité in Luxembourg-Ville and will feature YouTube historian and author Jenny Draper. It will include extracts from her book Mavericks: Life Stories and Lessons of History's Most Extraordinary Misfits, which includes stories such as those of Sabrina Sidney, an orphan kidnapped into a bizarre child-raising experiment; La Chevalière d’Éon, the French spy who was legally recognised as a woman in the 18th century; and James Chuma and David Susi, who walked hundreds of miles across Africa with a dead body.
The organisers remarked: “These poignant and often hilarious true stories show us that the world as we know it was built by a far wider array of historical figures than we encountered in our schoolbooks.” Further information is available at https://citybiblio.lu/event/mardis-litteraires--j-draper.
Both events are free. However, places must be reserved in advance.
