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Don’t forget I’ll be at the British Fantasy Society Convention in Brighton this Friday and Saturday morning, where I’ll be attempting to make up for the destruction and vulgarity wrought on this once-beautiful seaside town by its corrupt, venal councillors, through the beauty of literature… Here’s how the West Pier has looked before and after its [...] Well, ‘Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood’ launches in a few days, and has just had great review in the Sunday Times, who says ‘Christopher Fowler manages to write detective novels that are warm homages and mild pastiches of the Golden Age while at the same time excellent stories in their own right. [...] Just to let you know about a few upcoming public appearances. On Wednesday 14th September I’ll be at the lovely Clerkenwell Tales bookshop in Exmouth Market from 6:30pm to help launch ‘London’s Lost Rivers’ by Tom Bolton, for which I wrote the foreword. On Tuesday 20th September I’ll be the guest speaker at the Authors’ Club [...] I set off to do my reading in Vauxhall last night and thought about how it had changed since the days of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, which was a popular theme park for London for two hundred years from the middle of the 17th century. The gardens reached the height of their popularity in the early [...] The Royal Vauxhall Tavern has been knocking around since 1863. I’ve been going there since I was a kid, when it used to be two separate bars with a stage and a trapeze. Pole-dancers, drag acts and low comics would race along the bar, so you had to whip your pint up pretty sharpish not [...] Having recently been described as ‘cantankerous’ (i.e. having an informed opinion and being over 40) I can now add ‘utterly mystified’ to my description. I’ll admit it now. I have no idea at all who this woman is. Apparently she’s a model and a best-selling author, but somehow it seems I’ve never heard of her. [...] There should be a special English word for the feeling you get when you realise that summer is more than half over and won’t materialise again this year. Already I’m taking bookings for October – how depressing is that? Here’s something that won’t depress – a bumper new crop of chills from Steve Jones and the [...] The sequel to ‘Boys & Girls’, ‘Men & Women’ is a collection of new short stories and essays which contains an uncollected piece by me entitled ‘Ladies & Gentlemen’. Glasshouse Books is publishing the new anthology on 14 July 2011. Edited by Time Out’s Paul Burston, Men & Women features the best in new and [...] The Big Green Bookshop is special even among other indie bookstores. It’s as much a community drop-in as a shop. Its owners are known throughout North London’s Wood Green, and go out of their way to make customers welcome, with regular readings and events. I’ve appeared there, and the atmosphere was wonderful. This is the [...] Next Friday you can combine literary pursuits with an evening of live entertainment at Polari at Southbank Centre, when the iconic arts venue is taken over by the Polari gay literary salon, with DJs and live entertainment in an evening for bookworms who like to let loose once in a while. The event takes place [...] |
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