Typographia is a new one-day celebration of books, magazines and the pleasures of print, brought to you by Libreria.

Taking over Libreria and Second Home Spitalfields, directly opposite the shop, the fair will bring together more than 60 publishers, magazines and independent print projects for a day devoted to books, ideas and discovery.

Expect new releases, cult backlist titles, works in translation, photography and art books, independent magazines, journals, zines and beautifully made printed objects from publishers including Fitzcarraldo Editions, Penguin International, W. W. Norton, Verso, Rizzoli, Prototype, Charco Press and many other dynamic publishers.

Typographia will bring together leading writers, editors, translators, and cultural figures to explore the forces reshaping what, and how, we read, alongside sessions with magazine editors working across food, design, fashion and travel.

The full programme will be announced shortly, but expect a series of significant conversations featuring figures including Gaby Wood, Chief Executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, and the cultural critic and novelist Geoff Dyer.

Typographia grows out of Libreria’s own approach to books: a belief in discovery, unexpected connections and the idea that how we encounter books matters almost as much as what is inside them. From Libreria’s distinctive David Adjaye-designed interior to shelves organised around ideas rather than conventional categories, design has always been central to the experience of the shop. Typographia extends that curiosity to publishing in all its forms.

Talks & Conversations
Alongside the book and magazine fair, Typographia features a full programme of conversations with writers, editors and publishers throughout the day.

Gaby Wood | After the Shortlist
The Chief Executive of the Booker Prize Foundation joins us just days after the 2026 Booker shortlist announcement to talk about literary taste, prizes and what makes a Booker book.

Geoff Dyer | Beyond Genre
A conversation about the freedom of not knowing what kind of book you’re writing — and what becomes possible when fiction, memoir, criticism, travel writing and essay start to blur.

Derek Owusu & Tice Cin | How Do We Make a Life?
On friendship, recovery, community, belonging and the forms contemporary fiction invents to make sense of fractured lives.

Jordan Prosser & Ben Pester | How Strange Is Now?
On writing the present when the present already feels unreal — from technology and climate anxiety to work, ambition, absurdity and the uncanny.

David Wolf & Rob Orchard | In Praise of Slow Journalism
The editor of The Guardian Long Read and co-editor of Delayed Gratification discuss what journalism gains when it resists the pressure to be immediate.

Adam Thirlwell | Lost and Found, in Translation.
A conversation about translation, literary discovery and the creative possibilities that arise when books move across languages and borders.

And when the fair closes, join us upstairs for a closing party on the Second Home rooftop.

Tickets

£12

Your ticket includes:

All-day admission to Typographia
Access to the programme of general-admission talks and conversations, subject to capacity
A limited-edition Typographia tote bag
Admission to the rooftop closing party

Ticket price includes Eventbrite fees and VAT at 20%.