Book yourself in: As the thinking person's district of London, it’s no surprise to see N16 play host to the Stoke Newington Literary Festival a week of bookish events around its libraries, halls, cafés and pubs from 3-9 June. Highlights include Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore playing a gig at Babble Jar on 6 June, a talk on London fiction referencing Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and works by Zadie Smith on 9 June at Stoke Newington Town Hall, Graphic Novelist Dave Gibbon and Peter Hogan talking about the genre at Abney Public Hall on June 9, and much more.

Sample sale alert: boutique Donna Ida will be hosting a sample sale in a Covent Garden pop-up from June 6 with up to 70% off cool-girl brands including Equipment, L’Agence, Elizabeth & James, Current/Elliott and more. Get ready to fight your way to the best bits on this first weekend, but look chic as anything when you float about town in your bargains.

Ride the new wave: Want to know who the new abstract artists are? Get yourself over to The Printhouse Gallery in Hackney from today until July 12 and you can find out! Among the featured artists, you’ll find super-cool textiles by Hazel Stark ceramics by William Edmunds (who also makes a top gif )  and some mind-bending pieces by Tom Sewell.

Down Mexico way, via Shoreditch: Soho celebrity hotspot La Bodega Negra (above – Kate Moss was lounging around in a gold suit the same day that Lily Allen had her birthday party there last summer) is opening a new branch, Casa Negra, in Shoreditch on June 10. Located in the old Great Eastern Dining Rooms (which is massive enough to hopefully make scoring a table a cinch) will have more of a ‘traditional English house’ feel than its Soho sister, according to restaurateur Will Ricker, but with Mexican residents and as such plenty of tacos, tostados and thanks to a 2am late licence, loads of tequila. Ariba!

Films on a hot Peckham Roof: further proof that SE15 is the new E-anything comes via Rooftop Film Club Peckham Rye, an al fresco cinema throughout June from the same people that brought you the same summer institution at the Queen of Hoxton. This week sees the pop-up hosting teen-film classics including Clueless (June 11) and The Lost Boys (June 6), as well as Labyrinth (June 7) and Beasts of the Southern Wild (June 9). There’s also plenty of food and booze, plus booze, plus blankets for if it gets chilly. See the full listings here.