Events

2013

March

March 2nd 8pm Ennis Book Club Festival, Ireland

March 7th 7pm Fascinating Stories Whitbourne Hall, Worcestershire

2012

March

Fri 2nd 7.30 pm Essex Book Festival,Chelmsford Library

Sat 3rd 1-2.30 pm Storytelling and Translation, LSE Literary Festival, London

Sun 4th 12.30 Words by the Water, Keswick,Cumbria

Sat 10th 6.15 Bath Festival with Joe Dunthorne

Tue 13th 7pm Sheffield Hallam University, Peak Theatre (sold out

Mon 19th 18.30 5x15 The Tabernacle London W11

Sat 24th 12.00 Oxford Literary Festival, Christchurch College

26th-29th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

April

Thurs 12th 5pm Geographical Association AGM Manchester

Sat 14th 5pm Scarborough Festival

Weds 18th 11am London Book Fair, interview with Mo Yan

May

19th-20th Queens Park Book Festival

Thurs 26th May Dublin European Union National Institutes of Culture,'How Migration Challenges Notions of Society, Education and Culture'

June

1-3rd Montpellier Comedie du Livre

Sun 10th 2.15 pm Dovedale Arts Festival, Izaac Walton Hotel

Fri 22nd 2pm Chapeltown Library, Sheffield

Sat 23rd 5pm Holmfirth Arts Festival

July

Fri 6th 'The Mystery and Magic of Language.' National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults annual conference, Liverpool Hope University

Tue 10th Evening event at Dore Festival, Sheffield

Fri 13th Lewes Speakers Festival

September

13th-14th Guernsey Literature Festival

Sun 30th, 2pm, Soho Literary Festival, at the Soho Theatre, Dean Street

November - December

15th-18th November Cognac Le Festival Littératures européennes de Cognac

22nd November Sheffield 7.30 pm AN EVENING WITH DAVID BLUNKETT & MARINA LEWYCKA at Victoria Hall Methodist Church, Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 2JB. We will be talking about our love of walking in the Peak District, and the event is in aid of Friends of the Peak District. To book a ticket or to find out more please call Friends of the Peak District on 0114 266 5922.

27th November Sheffield, 7.30pm at the Cafe Des Amis, 97 Chesterfield Road I shall be chairing a reading and discussion with Palestinian authors Selma Dabbagh and Dina Matar. Contact enquiries@sheffieldpsc.org.uk for details of this and other Palestinian Culture Week events.

5th December 12.00 I am looking forward to having lunch and talking with the Jewish Friendship Club in Sheffield at the Kingfield Hall, Brincliffe Crescent, off Psalter Lane. This event is for members, but you can find out more at info@jewishsheffield.org.uk