Upcoming Events
2018
September 3
INSET for Sutton teachers
September 13
Poetry Workshop 1 for Wandsworth teachers
September 17
Children’s Bookshow
September 20
Colloquium on the education of writers at Oriel College, Oxford
September 21
Budleigh Salterton Festival, Devon
September 25
Windsor Festival: – one session for children, one for adults – talking about So They Call You Pisher! (Verso)
September 27
Event in Anerley
October 4
National Poetry Day
School in Woodford Green
October 5
The late James Berry, poet and fiction writer: conference.
October 7
Wimbledon Book Festival
All welcome, see you there!
October 8
Ilkley Literature Festival
Talk about Reading and Rebellion (OUP) a book I’ve co-edited with Kimberley Reynolds and Jane Rosen about reading amongst children of left-wing parents 1900-1960.
October 10
Event Croydon
October 11
Wiener Library, Russell Square, London – for a talk about my memoir So They Call You Pisher! (Verso) with special reference to using the library to help me uncover the fate of my father’s uncles in the Holocaust. I tell this story in the memoir.
October 13
Reading and Rebellion conference
Goldsmiths, University of London
Teachers, librarians etc welcome
October 15
British Library to talk about Reading and Rebellion (Oxford University Press) a book about left-wing and ‘alternative’ children’s books 1900-1960, with Professor Kimberley Reynolds and Jane Rosen.
October 18
Sandwell event
October 29
Wandsworth Teachers Event
November 1
Conway Hall, London: ‘1968 and after: Culture and Education’ talks and Q and A with me, Tariq Ali, Melissa Benn, Ken Loach and Lynne Segal, with Newham Bookshop. All welcome.
November 7
Event near Chelmsford
November 8
So They Call You Pisher! event for Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham. All welcome, see you there.
November 12
Children’s Bookshow Event
Chester
November 15
Event Ashford
November 16
Idea Store, Whitechapel, to talk about So They Call You Pisher! (Verso) – very near to where my parents lived, as described in the book! All welcome, see you there!
November 21
Launch Event for Reading and Rebellion at Marx Memorial Library, London. All welcome, see you there,
November 23
Medway teachers INSET
November 24
Event at St James’s Church, Muswell Hill for Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop, partly based on Unexpected Twist (Scholastic Children’s Books)
November 29
Event Ealing
December 6
Dagenham head teachers
December 12
St Paul’s CofE school in Whitechapel
December 20
Albert Hall
Two events
All welcome
2019
January 7
Event in a school in Burton
January 10
Cooks Spinney teachers’ event
January 17
Wandsworth teachers’ event
February 25
A Wokingham school event
March 21
Bourneville Children’s Literature Festival
March 26
Event in a school in Sunderland
April 3
Teaching assistants’ event in Cheltenham
November 21
Event in Cumbria
For school, library, festival, conference and college bookings where you have no arrangements as yet for selling books, contact Jan or Kate at: jan@speakingofbooks.co.uk
