Forthcoming Events
THUR 6th JULY – Chorleywood Bookshop’s Fantastic Fiction with Vanessa Lafaye & Juliet West.
Please join me as I have the pleasure of interviewing these two wonderful writers. To be held at The Art Studio, Chenies Manor, Chenies, WD3 6ER. Book Vouchers just £8 to include a Pimms on the lawn from 7pm.
FRI 22nd SEPT – I am very much looking forward to having the pleasure of interviewing Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney about their new novel, A Secret Sisterhood: The hidden friendship of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf. 7.30 – 9pm at Uxbridge Library UB8 1HD
I thoroughly enjoyed the following events and would be delighted to attend similar in the future.
If you are a book shop owner or an event organiser and would like me to give a talk, or sign copies of The Ship, please don’t hesitate to send me a message via my Contact page.
Similarly, I have a wealth of experience presenting to children of all ages, gained in my former life as a teacher so, if you would like a visiting author at your school, please do get in touch.
MON 26th JUNE – Guest speaker at the Literary Arts Evening @ Watford Grammar School for Boys
THUR 8th JUNE – Chiltern Writers‘ Workshop at Wendover library, ‘The Frankenstein manuscript – and how to refine it’
THUR 30th MARCH – Claire Fuller and Antonia Honeywell in Conversation, at Rossiter Books Monmouth NP25 3BX.
SAT 4 – SUN 5th FEB – Hearth Festival 2017 at Gladstone’s Library
FRI 6 JAN 2017- An Evening with Ruby Wax with Chiltern Bookshops. Interviewing the wonderful Ruby Wax, at Christ Church, Chorleywood, WD3
2016
FRI 2nd DEC – What makes a best seller? A fascinating look at how some novels become an overnight runaway success: with Dinah Jefferies, Vanessa Lafaye, Kate Hamer and Claire Fuller. Winston Churchill Theatre, HA4 7Q.
SAT 26th NOV – Telling Tales: An Afternoon of Authors at Forest Arts Centre, New Milton BH25 6DS. Discussing novels; plots, settings and characters, and finally landing that publishing deal. With Claire Fuller, Laura Barnett and Graham Hurley.
MON 31st OCT – Reading Group Social: ‘Culture Bite Grand Finale‘, an exclusive event celebrating the conclusion of Hillingdon Library’s first ever Book of the Month.
OCTOBER 2016 – I was truly honoured that The Ship was chosen as the first Book Of The Month for Hillingdon Library’s Culture Bite, a month long celebration of all things cultural.
WED 19th OCT – Culture Bite ‘‘War and the Writer’ with Lissa Evans, Jason Hewitt, Alison Layland & Juliet West, at Compass Theatre, Uxbridge
WED 12th OCT – Culture Bite ‘Getting Published Workshop’, at The Stables, Uxbridge
SAT 8th OCT – Little Missenden Festival – Interview with Rose Tremain
WED 5th OCT – Culture Bite ‘Drafting & Editing Workshop’ at Eastcote House Gardens.
SAT 1st OCT – Culture Bite ‘Creative Writing Workshop’ at Hillingdon Library Fun Palace,
SAT 25 JUNE – Finchley Literary Festival 2016 The representation of orphans in fiction
SUN 19TH JUNE – Prime Writers Panel Event ‘From Colonies to Apocalypse – writing women through the ages’.
MON 13th JUNE – Loose Mews Winchester Poetry and Prose Evening The Discovery Centre, Winchester
WED 27th April – An Evening with Antonia Honeywell, at The Stables, Manor Farm, Ruislip
THUR 28th APRIL – Guest Speaker at Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Amersham
WED 20th APRIL – Oxford Writers’ Circle at Albion Beatnik Bookstore
SUN 10th APRIL – BBC Radio 4 Open Book with Jenni Fagan and Mariella Frostrup
THUR 10th MAR – ‘The book that inspired me’, with Antonia Honeywell, Waterstones Islington
THUR 3rd MAR – World Book Week Talk & Workshop at Bethnal Green Academy
WED 3rd FEB – Chorleywood Bookshop’s, An Evening With Ella Woodward.
MON 1st FEB – Chorleywood Bookshop’s, An Evening with Antonia Honeywell & Kate Hamer.
THUR 28th JAN – Guest Speaker at Gerrards Cross Book Group
FRI 15th JAN 2016 – Guest Tutor at Faber Academy, on their Writing a Novel course.
2015
MON 7th DEC – An evening with Jojo Moyes at Dr Challoner’s Grammar School
TUE 17th NOV – Chalfont St Giles Library Literary Group HP8 4QA
TUE 10th NOV – Chorleywood Bookshop Debut Authors Evening
WED 28th OCT – YA Shot Festival 2015
SAT 17th OCT – The Gollancz Festival WC2H 7BY
SAT 10th OCT – Interview with David Nicholls, at Little Missenden Festival.
WED 7th OCT – A Literary Lunch with Alexander Mc Call Smith for Chorleywood Books
SUN 4th Oct – Royal Geographical Society’s Heroes Conference
WED 30th SEPT – W&N Debut Authors Panel, as part of Barking & Dagenham ReadFest 2015
WED 9th SEPT – Debut Author evening, Lutyens & Rubinstein bookshop, Notting hill
THUR 2nd JULY – Debut Author Evening, Waterstones Cambridge
WED 1st JULY – Little Chalfont Community Library
TUE 23rd JUNE – Summer Pimms Party with Authors & Readings, Dulwich Books
WED 17th JUNE – An evening of new fiction, at Waterstones Covent Garden
THUR 11th JUNE – Author Event at Urmston Books
TUE 2nd JUNE – Interview with David Nicholls at Chorleywood Bookshop
WED 27th MAY – Book signing, The Edge Of The World Bookshop, Penzance
THUR 21st MAY – Finchley Literary Festival, Reading and Q&A at Church End Library
SAT 16th MAY – Bradford Literary Festival
THUR 7th May – Book Club, The Beacon School, Amersham
WED 29th April – Rossiter Books, Monmouth NP25 3BX
TUE 14th April – London Book Fair, Olympia An honoured member of a panel discussing the promotion of debut authors
MON 13th APRIL – Charing Cross Literary Event 7pm – 8pm 107 Charing Cross Road
TUE 10 MARCH – Speakeasy, in association with Vintage and Drink, Shop & Do.
TUE 24 FEB – Short Stories Aloud Arts at the Old Fire Station | 40 George St Oxford OX1 2AQ
THU 19 FEB – Bristol Book Launch for The Ship
TUE 17 FEB – Ten for ’15 Speakeasy, in association with Vintage and Drink, Shop & Do.
THUR 12th FEB 2015- London Book Launch for The Ship. The Ship was launched at The Grant Museum of Zoology in Bloomsbury, on Thursday 12th February 2015.