audio: Chet Baker - John Harvey & Second Nature

Tuesday, 21st September
Ham & High Literary Festival
Ivy House
94-96 North End Road
London  NW11 7SX
Keeping My Head Above Water – 100 Books and Counting, Writing to Keep from Drowning
Interview by Matthew Lewin, followed by Q&A.
Details : http://www.hamhighlitfest.com/

Saturday, 2nd October
Alan Sillitoe Memorial Event
Nottingham City Council House, Market Square, Nottingham
11.00am – 5.00pm – £5.00 for all or part of the day.
This is a day-long celebration of Sillitoe’s Life and Work, with sessions on his poetry, films and children’s writing as well as his fiction for adults. Amongst other things, DJ Taylor will talk about Sillitoe and the regional novel and John Lucas about other writers who took the Nottinghamshire working class as their subject matter. In the midst of all this, at 1.30 to be precise, I shall expound for fully 15 minutes on the importance of Sillitoe’s writing initially to my teaching and later to my writing. A little bonne bouche before the afternoon session
Details: www.sillitoe.com

Monday, 18th October/Tuesday, 19th October
“Bruit de Langues 2010″
UFR Lettres et Langues, Université de Poitiers, FRANCE
This is a four day writing conference embedded within the wider Poitiers & District festival: On Monday at 6.30pm I shall be taking part in a round table discussion of the Rivages Noir crime list, and then from 2.00 to 3.30 pm on the Tuesday I shall be interviewed about and read from my work.
Details: gilles.menegaldo@univ-poitiers.fr

Wednesday, 20th October/Thursday, 21st October
Paris
Media/Bookstore events to coincide with the publication in France by Rivages of Cold in Hand.
Details: h.boutalijante@payotrivages.com

Tuesday, 30th November
Crime Readers’ Day
Nottingham Central Library, Angel Row, Nottingham
2.00 – 4.00
Details: jane.brierley@nottinghamcity.gov.uk