Events

Upcoming in 2018.

The Penguin paperback edition of Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves comes out on February 1 and I’ll be talking about the book and various other things at various events next year. I’ll be adding further details and dates to this list, so do check back.

Use the contact form below if you’d like to invite me to speak at an event.

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Tuesday 6 February 2018, 8pm: Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution, London N6

Talk: Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves: Turning secret lives into fiction (tickets available from HLSI)

Saturday 9 February 2018, Gladstone’s Library, Church Lane, Hawarden, Flintshire

Writing workshop with the Manchester Women’s Writers Group (closed event)

Friday 23 February 2018, evening: Waterstones Booksellers, Crouch End, London N8

Meet the author, q&a and signing: Tickets available from Waterstones in the new year.

Tuesday 10 April 2018, 8pm: Gladstone’s Library, Church Lane, Hawarden, Flintshire

Talk: The historical novel: a very slippery genre

Why do we love historical fiction so much? As part of my stay at the library as April’s writer in residence, I’ll be tracing a brief history of the historical novel, and discussing my own love of historical fiction, literary and popular, which began at school with Winston Graham’s Poldark novels. I’ll also suggest some reasons for the genre’s contemporary appeal.  THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. 

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 8pm, Bennet’s Club, 21 Leyton Road, Harpenden, St Albans with Howard Linskey, Antonia Senior and William Ryan

Writing panel q&a with crime and historical fiction focus, hosted by Katherine Sunderland. You can get tickets here:

Tuesday 8 May, White Horse Bookshop, 136 High Street, Marlborough, Wiltshire

Q&A about Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves, focussing on its local connections. (The first part of the novel is set in the Lambourn Valley and a visit to the Uffington White Horse during World War Two forms a crucial part of the narrative.)
Contact the bookshop for details here: https://www.whitehorsebooks.co.uk
Friday 18th May,  as part of Birkbeck Arts Week: Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square
7.40 – 9.00pm
Panel Discussion: ‘Imagined Trials’
Trials loom large in fiction and film. Yet what’s at issue in a fictional trial is seldom what it would be in reality, for the audience or reader also sits in judgement. Join members of the Guilt Group and novelist Rachel Malik to discuss.Book your free place for Imagined trials via Eventbrite

 30th May 2018, 7 – 8.30pm: The Book Group at the Cabinet Rooms, Jewry Street, Winchester

Meet the author and q&a about Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves for this book group event centred on the theme of home. I’ve also chosen Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship as the next book for the group

Tickets available through event-brite.