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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 [...] Who When Tuesday, November 16, 2010 8:00pm Where Foyles Bookshop (map) 113-119 Charing Cross Rd Other InfoI’ll be with author Adam Nevill reading from the new anthology of creepy underground tales called ‘End Of The Line’ « Back to the calendar FYI, this week I’ll be reading around town, with an appearance at Foyles on Tuesday evening for ‘End Of The Line’ with Adam Nevill and Pat Cadigan (6:30pm kick off), then at the Green Carnation Award Read-Off at Gay’s The Word, Marchmont Street on Thursday evening at 7.30pm. Who When Friday, October 29, 2010 7:00pm Where London Metropolitan Archive (map) 40 Northampton Rd Home of all London’s documents Other InfoCome and explore the secrets below the city at the LMA with me. « Back to the calendar If you’ve never been to the London Metropolitan Archive, you’re in for a surprise. It’s an amazing resource open to all, but is shockingly underused by Londoners. Here they have everything from where the bombs fell in your street to the records of Bedlam (my favourite doctor’s entry for a young female patient; ‘Admitted suffering [...] I’ll be doing a Gothic Night in London at the London Metropolitan Archives on October 29th this year – the archives are an astonishing resource for anyone interested in this city, and contain everything from the law court rolls – literally, parchment rolls containing the law cases of London – to maps showing where bombs [...] |
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