Upcoming Events
All events take place at the Muswell Hill Branch
Events are free unless otherwise stated.
If you would like information on forthcoming events, please email us and you will be added to our mailing list. Just add your name and email address.
Sunday 10th April 2pm
Will be signing copies of her new book
Quiet London
About the book:
Where can Londoners and visitors find quiet places to meet and talk?
London is an exciting place to be, but not everyone wants to be in a noisy environment listening to loud music. Perhaps they want to be somewhere where they can read a book, or sit and linger for a while. Many visitors to the capital long to discover places off the beaten track - find a delightful garden to sit in or a tree-lined walk by a river.
Busy Londoners are often looking for somewhere to go which is an alternative to lively venues; a place where things are understated rather than grabbing their attention...
Quiet London is a guide to quiet places to meet, drink, eat, swim, rest, shop, sleep or read. It includes interesting, attractive places where people don't have to strain to hear each other speak. There are short descriptions for each venue, alongside travel and contact details and simple but atmospheric photographs in colour and black and white
http://www.franceslincoln.co.uk/en/C/0/Book/2783/Quiet_London.html
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Saturday 5th March 5:30pm
WORLD BOOK NIGHTA
Linda Grant
Author of The Clothes on Their Backs
and We Had It So Good
Interviewed by Gillian Slovo
At HORNSEY LIBRARY
Haringey Park, London N8 9JA
Booking essential:
telephone 020 8489 1429
Signed books for sale
Free event
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Tuesday 9th November 7pm
Jane Monson
will be reading from and talking about her debut collection
Speaking Without Tongues
Cinnamon Press £7.99
“...an important contribution to the development of the prose poem” - John Freeman
She will be joined by “Writers On The Hill”
http://www.cinnamonpress.com/speaking-without-tongues/
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Wednesday 13th October 7pm
Jane Conway
will be launching her new book
A Woman Of Two Wars
A Life Of Mary Borden
Munday Book £9.99
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Tuesday 5th October 7pm
Pete Brown
will be reading from and talking about his new book
White Rooms & Imaginary Westerns
On the Road with Ginsberg, Writing for Clapton & Cream - an Anarchic Odyssey
JR Books £16.99
Visit author’s website: http://www.petebrown.co.uk/hist.html
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Wednesday 15th September 7.00pm
HOWARD JACOBSON
will be reading from and discussing his book
The Finkler Question
Bloomsbury £18.99
http://www.bloomsbury.com/Books/Details
An evening to celebrate the publication of
Tuesday 20th July 7pm
Granta 111
Going Back
with featured authors
Elizabeth McCracken &
Helen Simpson
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Wednesday 9th June 2010 7pm Local Independent Publisher
The Muswell Press
Presents an Evening of Dramatised Book Excerpts by
Shane Connaughton
Mike Dibb
Alan Franks
Derek Ogbourne
Poetry, Lyrics, Music & Literature
Visit the Muswell Press website: http://www.muswell-press.co.uk/index.html
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Thursday 22nd April 2010 7pm
Launch of new collection
Following from the success of their first collection,
Out of the Woods, the Queen’s Wood Writers Group
are proud to present their new anthology of
short stories:
NINE + 1
If you go down to the woods tonight...
NINE authors + 1 illustrator = works that scratch beneath the surface and are full of surprises: a midsummer nightmare, the sex life of trees, how to cook squirrel. Illuminated by flashes of insight, spiked with wit and shot through with dark humour, these are delicate, disturbing tales.
Sandra Barwick, First screening: Brave new world is here to stay.
Cathy De’Freitas, One hundred and eighty elephants: Motherhood beyond the manuals.
Emma Fraser, The odd-job man and The last laugh: Emotions and devotions in and out of marriage.
Tamara Haq, The food of love: What you never knew about life choices.
Eric Henderson, An unfortunate incident: A little misunderstanding can go a long way.
Cheryl Mclennan, Stella: If only life were simple.
Geoffrey Salmon, Bottom: A midsummer’s nightmare in Queen’s Wood.
Murray Shelmerdine, Property, Ephemera and Autumn: What you’ve always wanted to know about squirrels and the sex-live of trees.
Leonie Sturge-Moore, And travel, naturally: Retirement, there’s another way.
Andrew Higgens, Photo-etchings: Beyond the known.
About Queen’s Wood Writers Group:
•We are a group of dedicated writers who meet every Monday evening from 7pm in the Queen’s Wood Lodge to exchange lively, constructive criticism of our work.
•Our primary focus is short fiction, but we are also open to poetry, drama and longer fiction.
•We have published two anthologies of short stories, NINE + 1 and Out of the Woods.
•New members are always welcome.
•Queen’s Wood Writers was set up in July 2006, following a year-long Birkbeck College course in creative writing at the Jackson’s Lane Centre.
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Granta Publications and The Muswell Hill Bookshop
invite you to celebrate the launch of
Granta 109: Work
with special guest author
Jim Crace
support your local bookshop and meet the team at Granta Magazine
Tuesday 12th January, 2010
6.30 - 8.30pm
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LAUNCH PARTY
Ursula Smith
Watercolours
£15.00 paperback
The launch of this book celebrating the work of the
popular local artist.
Please note this is a launch only, there will be no reading.
All welcome!
Wednesday 16th December 2009 7pm start
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David Farrant
Will Be Discussing His New Book With
Dr. Jane Monson
IN THE SHADOW OF THE HIGHGATE VAMPIRE
Thursday 23rd April 7pm for 7.30pm
Visit authors website: http://www.davidfarrant.org/
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Lissa Evans
Will Be Launching Her New Novel
Their Finest Hour And A Half
Doubleday £14.99
Tuesday 24th February 6.30pm
Please note this is a launch only - there will not be a reading.
Weds 3rd December 7.30pm (doors open 7pm)
CHRISTOPHER SOMERVILLE
with his sister JULIA as interviewer
will be talking about and reading from his new book
Britain and Ireland’s Best Wild
Places: 500 Ways to Discover the Wild
Allen Lane £25.00
and also his new collection of poems
Greenwood Dark - A Traveller’s Poems
Haus Publishing £9.99
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Weds 22nd October 7pm for 7.30pm
Peter Cox
will be talking about his new book, illustrating it with extracts
from the original programmes
SET INTO SONG
Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger and the Radio Ballads
Labatie Books £20.00
Take a communist playwright, actor, singer and songwriter and introduce him to a young American musician and singer half his age. They fall in love. Add an ex-submarine commander with an eccentric view of radio as Art. Send them with the new mobile tape recorder to railway yards, onto fishing vessels, down coal mines, in search of gypsy encampments. Now read about the most compelling series of radio programmes ever made.
Visit Author’s Website: http://www.setintosong.co.uk/
Weds 24th September. 7pm for 7.30pm
ANDREW CLOVER
will be reading from and talking about his new book
DAD RULES
Penguin Fig Tree £14.99
Visit Author’s Website: http://www.andrewclover.com/
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Weds 18th June 7 for 7.30pm
ESTHER FREUD
will be reading from and talking about her new book
LOVE FALLS
Bloomsbury £7.99
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Weds 12th March 7.00pm
Justine Picardie
will be reading from and talking about her new book
DAPHNE
Bloomsbury £14.99 Hardback
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Weds 23rd January 7.00pm
TONY RUSSELL
will be giving a talk about his new book
Country Music Originals
Oxford University Press £17.99 Hardback
Click here for description and reviews
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Thursday 31st January 6.30pm
You are invited to attend the official book launch
Matt Beaumont
SMALL WORLD
Bantam Press £10.99 Hardback
