Jude and Jamie in town

This week doing the literary thang in London town are none other than Jude Law and Hanif Kureishi talking about Iraq, Jamie Oliver signing copies of his latest book of culinary delights and the sophisticated Mike Leigh telling us all about Abigail's Party.

Signings

Alan Titchmarsh The first volume of How To Be A Gardener was a bestseller - a combination of colourful pix, remedial advice and celebrity. Now here's part two, subtitled Secrets Of Success, hinting that attention to detail is every bit as important to results outdoors as, say, to making a good souffle.

Bernard Ingham The man wrongly credited with inventing that dreadful spindoctoring talks about it and signs copies of his new book, The Wages Of Spin.

InventuringWilliam Buckland, Andrew Hatcher and Julian Birkinshaw, the authors of Inventuring: Why Big Companies Must Think will be signing and talking about the business of businesses and managing them. Refreshments too.

Talks

The Fleming Memorial Lecture Orlando Figes, professor of history at Birkbeck College, author of Natasha's Dance, a mighty tome about the cultural history of Russia that received controversially mixed reviews, delivers this lecture about the impulses and sensibilities that have given rise to Russian civilisation. Chaired by Ronald Harwood.

Paul Burke His new novel, Untorn Tickets, tells the story two teenage boys growing up in London. Burke will be talking about the book, his characters and his previous life as a successful adman.

Elizabeth and Mary As if our appetite for books on Tudor history hasn't been sated, here's another, a doorstop by Jane Dunn, which looks at the relationship between those quarrelsome cousins, Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, who never actually met. Jane Dunn talks and signs copies of her book.

Love in a Lesbian Climate Stella Duffy talks about how lesbian novels have finally come out.

... And finally: Trevor Nunn As part of the bowing out ceremonies, Sir Trev, who's in line to hand over the National to Nicholas Hytner, talks about his final productions at the National, Love's Labour's Lost and Anything Goes.

Mike Leigh The man who's so successfully cashed in on the awfulness of the English lower middle classes talks about his screenplays for Abigail's Party, Life Is Sweet and others.

Why Garden? Anna Pavord, top gardener, tulip expert and writer, talks about why different people dig, from provision and profit to pure and simple pleasure.

Poetry

European poems on the Underground The first Poems On The Underground were published for the delectation of Underground users in 1986 and there have been numerous spin-offs since. Now it's Euro-poem time, poems by foreigners, translated. Gerard Benson and Cicely Herbert, the original editors, and translator David Constantine read from the current series. Music from the Apollo Chamber Players.