Julia Crouch, Andrew Hunter Murray, Elizabeth Day, Matthew Robins, Nick Makoha, Sadie Hasler

Literary Death Match comes home to Southbank Centre to heat up your chilly February. Now in 60 cities worldwide, it’s a lit-centric, star-studded, whimsy-filled night of smarts and laughs with some absurdity in between.

Called ‘the most entertaining reading series ever’ by the LA Times, LDM brings together four brilliant authors to read their most electric writing for seven minutes or less before a panel of three celebrity judges. After each pair of readers, the judges take turns spouting hilarious, off-the-wall commentary – based on the categories of literary merit, performance and intangibles – then select their favourite, who advances to the finals.

The two finalists then compete in a vaguely literary competition to determine who takes home the Literary Death Match crown.