Readings and Events
“Putting the ‘I’ Back In” – a workshop on writing poetry about personal issues with Anna Woodford, author of Trailer.
Tickets: £20. Maximum 15 participants
Info: www.aldeburghpoetryfestival.org
“New Voices” at Aldeburgh Poetry Festival featuring Anna Woodford and others.
Tickets: £8.00
Info: www.aldeburghpoetryfestival.org
Michelene Wandor on Lazy Democracy? Creative Writing in
Higher Education.
Marx Memorial Library, London.
Tickets: £1/50p
Info: marx-memorial-library.org
Book launch of The Good Son, the first Five Leaves Crime book, by Russel McLean.
Dundee Waterstones, 35 Commercial Street, Dundee DD1 3DG
Refreshments, all welcome
Info: crimescenescotland@yahoo.co.uk
John Lucas on Alan Sillitoe and Nottingham novels.
Nottingham City Council, Market Square, Nottingham.
£3, including refreshments
Info: info@fiveleaves.co.uk
Launch of David Belbin’s The Pretender.
Bromley House Library, Angel Row, Nottingham
Free, refreshments.
Info: info@fiveleaves.co.uk
John Greening and Stan Smith reading at the Flying Goose, Chilwell Road, Beeston.
£3 including a glass of wine.
Info: 0115 9241827
David Belbin reading from The Pretender
Nottingham Trent students’ book club
Sub Bar, Nottingham.
Free.
Info: info@fiveleaves.co.uk
Bernard Kops’ play “Whitechapel Dreams” on Radio 4. See press listings.
Crime afternoon in Mansfield Library, Nottinghamshire
Crime Express writers Clare Littleford and Stephen Booth join Rod Madocks (No Way to Say Goodbye) who will be talking about the psychology of crime.
Mansfield Library, Westgate, Mansfield.
Tickets: £3/£2
Info: info@fiveleaves.co.uk
Michael Alpert on Secret Judaism and the Spanish Inquisition
Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6AQ
Donation.
Info: www.jewishsocialist.org.uk
Bernard Kops’ “Whitechapel Dreams”: rehearsed reading at the New End Theatre, 27 New End, Hampstead, London NW3 1JD.
Tickets £5, Box office 0870 033 2733
Children of the Jago.
Ken Worpole (Dockers and Detectives) joins London historian Sarah Wise for a discussion on London writing, especially Alexander Baron.
Free admission including wine.
Pages of Hackney Bookshop,
70 Lower Clapton Road, Clapton, London E5 0RN
Nicola Monaghan reads from Okinawa Dragon and other material at the Flying Goose, Chilwell Road, Beeston.
£3 including a glass of wine.
Info: 0115 9251827
David Belbin reads from The Pretender and other material at the Flying Goose, Chilwell Road, Beeston.
£3 including a glass of wine.
Info: 0115 9251827
The Sea of Azov, book launch at Jewish Book Week with Karen Maitland and others.
Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, London.
Info: www.jewishbookweek.com
...Also at Jewish Book Week, dates to be confirmed: Joseph Sherman (From Pogrom to Purge: Soviet Yiddish Writing 1917-1947, due February from Five Leaves) discussing Russian literature with Elaine Feinstein; Seth Freedman (Can I Bring My Own Gun?, due February from Five Leaves) in discussion with Palestinian novelist Samir El Youssef.
A Five Leaves evening – various readers – at the Flying Goose, Chilwell Road, Beeston.
£3 including a glass of wine.
Info: 0115 9251827 or info@fiveleaves.co.uk