7:00pm, Thursday 18th of January, The Groucho

Can 75 words really capture a moment in time, its details and atmosphere, its character and mood? Christine Coulson’s new, bullet of a novel, One Woman Show, is written almost entirely in 75-word museum wall labels and demonstrates how constraint need not limit storytelling.

7:00pm, Wednesday 10th of January, The Hearth

The papacy is one of the world’s longest-running institutions. It may also be one of the strangest. There have been rival popes, an English pope and even, legend has it, a female pope.

7.00pm, Tuesday 9th of January, London Barge Company, Hackney

Join us for Trouble's second Book Club, featuring Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. There will be drinks and nibbles available throughout the evening and while there will be a Trouble moderator present, we expect you to come with your thoughts and opinions at the ready!

5.00pm, Monday 18th of December, Conway Hall

Get ready for Trouble’s biggest night yet! We have invited some of our most requested speakers to join us for an evening of talks and comedy followed by a private party for our Trouble members.

6pm drinks - 6.30pm event, Thursday 14th of December, DIAGEO

To celebrate the end of the year and a new start on the horizon, drinks brand Diageo have very kindly invited us to their HQ to enjoy some drinks, networking and an event with the brilliant Adrienne Adhami.

7:00pm, Tuesday 12th of December, Dartmouth House

Join us for an evening with three leading tech entrepreneurs. Our three panelists: Georgia Stewart - CEO and co-founder of Tumelo, Deirdre O’Neill - Co-Founder and Chief Commercial & Legal Officer at Hertility Health and Juanita Morgan - Co-Founder and CEO of Value Adders World – will discuss what drove them to start their own businesses.

7:00pm, Monday 11th of December, The House of St Barnabas

Nabila Ramdani is not from the establishment elite: she is a marginalised insider, born and raised in a neglected Paris suburb. With unflinching clarity, she probes the fault lines of her struggling country, exposing the Fifth Republic as an archaic system which emerged from Algeria’s cataclysmic War of Independence.

7:00pm, Wednesday 6th of December, The Hearth

We've all heard that trees can combat much of the climate damage humans have wreaked on our ecosystem, but only if we plant the right ones. Arit Anderson is a garden designer, writer and presenter on BBC Two’s Gardeners’ World and she'll be joining us to talk about her passion for gardening, the environment and the huge importance of tree planting.

7:00pm, Tuesday 21st of November, The Ned

Nobody panic, but our favorite Guardian columnist is coming to Trouble! Drawn from her spectacularly funny Guardian columns, Marina will join us to talk about her bestselling book, What Just Happened?!. The book (which has been updated since publication to include two bonus prime ministers) is a welcome blast of humour and sanity in a world where reality has become stranger than fiction.

6.00pm, Thursday 16th of November, Alexandra Palace Theatre

Troublemaker Katy Galloway is the producer of the next big musical on the West End and it's the UK's answer to Hamilton. Remember, remember the 5th of November? That's right, the musical tells the story of the infamous Guy Fawkes and after two sold-out concerts at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 2022 featuring Carrie Hope Fletcher and Bradley Jaden, 2023 is set to be the most explosive year yet for the musical.

7:00pm, Tuesday 14th of November, Kindred Hammersmith

Arch Hades is a poet who's amassed a following of over a million and has written five bestselling poetry volumes including Paper Romance and Arcadia. Arch will join us at Trouble to read some of her work and talk about her latest pieces in 21C Human, a collection of poetry and essays detailing the millennial perspective in three parts.

7:00pm, Thursday 9th of November, AllBright

Sowemimo will join us to recount her own experiences as a doctor, patient and activist. Dr Sowemimo's book, Divided, exposes the racial biases of medicine that affect our everyday lives and provides an illuminating - and incredibly necessary - insight into how our world works, and who it works for. This event will reshape how you see health and medicine - forever.

7:00pm, Thursday 2nd of November, Century Club

V (formerly Eve Ensler) wrote a play back in the 90's and you may of heard of it. It's called The Vagina Monologues. V will be joining us at The Trouble Club to discuss her life’s work and her incredible new book Reckoning, which invites the reader to travel the journey of a writer’s and activist’s life and process over forty years.

7.00pm Wednesday 1st of November, SPACES, Finsbury Park

From uncertainty and risk to ambiguity, emotion and non-verbal behaviour, life can be like a game of poker. So approach it like one, with every day critical thinking. Journalist and competitive poker player Alex O’Brien will join us at Trouble to discuss how we can survive and make better life decisions using the rules of the game. In a world full of uncertainty and incomplete information, this is about getting to the truth.

7.00pm Thursday 26th of October, Mortimer House

There are many routes to mental wellbeing and award-winning neuroscientist Camilla Nord is at the forefront of finding them. Camilla will join us at Trouble to guide us on a revelatory tour of the scientific and technological developments that are revolutionizing the way we think about mental health, showing why and how events - and treatments - can affect people in such different ways.

7.00pm Thursday 12th of October, Bloomsbury Tavern

What is the Sharing Economy? How can it help us live more affordable, more sustainable, and ultimately more fulfilling lives? What would happen if for one year a family pledged to share as much as they possibly can? Instead of owning more and more stuff, what it's like to stop owning things and borrow, lend, rent and swap instead?

7.00pm Thursday 5th of October, Mortimer House

Another Story Slam is coming to Trouble. We’ve heard the most wonderful and moving stories from our members and the story slam community in the past and we’re so excited to hear more.

7:00pm, Tuesday 3rd of October, Kindred Hammersmith

The Women's Prize for Fiction has grown into one of the most prestigious literary awards in the UK and it was co-founded by none other than bestselling author, Kate Mosse. As the prize enters its 29th year, we're thrilled that Kate will be joining us to talk about the impact of the prize and how it’s increased recognition for women’s writing across every genre.

7:00pm, Friday 29th of September, The Sloane Club

Jacki Hill-Murphy is an explorer who has spent the last 16 years exploring and filming some of the most inhospitable and remote places on earth. In 2007 Jacki left her job as an English and Drama teacher and set off down the Bobonaza in the Amazon Basin in a dug-out canoe.

7.00pm, Thursday 28th of September, Hackney

Join us for Trouble's second Book Club, featuring Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. There will be drinks and nibbles available throughout the evening and while there will be a Trouble moderator present, we expect you to come with your thoughts and opinions at the ready!

10am - 12pm, Saturday 23rd of September, Hally’s Parsons Green

Join us for a casual coffee meet-up at Hally’s in the heart of Parsons Green. Nothing formal, just an opportunity to meet and chat with other troublemakers. 

7:00pm, Tuesday 19th of September, The Ned

According to the 2023 FTSE Women’s Leadership review, progress for women in leadership is going exceptionally well. Yet for those looking at the fine print, the report doesn't look so rosy.

7:00pm, Friday 15th of September, Home Grown

Aija Mayrock is fast becoming one of the biggest poets online and around the world. She has performed her original poetry to over four million people across the United States in the last four years alone, including at Madison Square Garden, The Microsoft Theater, and the United Nations.

7:00pm, Thursday 14th of September, The Hearth

The NHS is at crisis point. In the 75 years since it was founded on the dream of making healthcare accessible to everyone, its principles have been chipped away at and disregarded by successive political leaders. The result: an underfunded, understaffed, exhausted workforce, a decimation of patient services and the infiltration of privatisation within our public healthcare system.

7:00pm, Tuesday 29th of August, The Ned Hotel

As the third Black woman ever to be elected as an MP, and the first elected African-Caribbean woman to become a Government Minister, Dawn Butler is a true pioneer. Famously ejected from the House of Commons for calling Boris Johnson a liar, her tireless campaigning to eradicate injustice - from the NHS to the Metropolitan Police - has changed lives.

7:00pm, Friday 25th of August, The Conduit

Yomi Adegoke is an icon! On top of co-writing the smash hit, Slay In Your Lane and the follow up, Loud Black Girls, she's now coming out with her debut novel, The List! The book, which explores the dark side of social media and it's effects on our personal lives, is yet to be released but has already been at the centre of a 17 way bidding war for the TV rights.

1.00pm, Saturday 19th of August, Hampstead Heath

Join us for a members picnic on Hampstead Heath, a chance to relax, play some games and enjoy the summer sun. We'll have a book swap for those looking for their next read or hoping to lighten their shelves and a contest to raise money for Women's Aid an incredible charity offering life-saving services to women and children suffering from domestic abuse.

7:00pm, Wednesday 16th of August, AllBright

Many of us have experienced the pain of being cheated on by a loved one, but usually the other person isn't our boyfriend's partner on Strictly Come Dancing. That cruel twist of fate is reserved for a lucky few, such as actress Rebecca Humphries.

7:00pm, Wednesday 9th of August, The Ned Hotel

Weaving together narratives that celebrate the triumph of Black female resistance, Catherine Joy White will take us on a unique journey through the eyes of positive and inspiring disruptors. Throughout history, acts of defiance have taken place in secret, in kitchens, churches, through trusted networks. Others were projected onto a global stage through art, politics and activism.

7.00pm, Tuesday 8th of August, Islington

Join us for Trouble's inaugural book club as we embark on a captivating journey into the depths of literature with our first book selection: Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield. As fate would have it, our first host happens to have a barge which she has generously offered us for the evening's gathering.