Calendar: Event

Derek Landy, Skullduggery Pleasant Dark Days Tour

Talk, Q&A and public signing to promote the thrilling new instalment in the Skullduggery Pleasant series, Dark Days. For fun and games around the series, check out http://www.skulduggerypleasant.co.uk

8th April 2010 Swords, Dublin, Ireland
10th April 2010 Easons O'Connell St, Dublin, Ireland
20th April - morning Brunel Academy, Bristol
20th April 4pm Waterstones, Broadmead, Bristol
22nd April 2010 11am - 1.30pm Skoke Dameral Community College, Plymouth
22nd April 2010 6.30pm Waterstones Plymouth
23rd April 2010 11am - 1.30pm St John Kitto Community College, Plymouth
23rd April 2010, 4.30pm WHSmith Exeter, Guildhall Shopping Centre
24th April 2010, 12pm Waterstones, Bournemouth
24th April 2010 4pm Waterstones Southampton
25th April 2010 2pm Norrish Central Library, Portsmouth
26th April 2010, 12pm St Andrews High School for Boys, Worthing, Brighton
26th April 2010 4pm Waterstones Brighton
27th April 2010, 10am Peacehaven Community School, East Sussex

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Join Markus Zusak in our online chat on 24th February!

24th February, 5.30-6.30pm

Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief, will log in from Sydney to talk about his book Fighting Ruben Wolfe. Sign up to take part: http://www.markuszusak.co.uk/

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Oxford Literary Festival

The young people's programme at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, 20-28 March 2010, includes the chance to meet Anthony Horowitz, Louise Rennison, Philip Pullman, Malorie Blackman, Geraldine McCaughrean, Philip Reeve, Steve Cole, Zizou Corder, Cressida Cowell, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Meg Rosoff, Mal Peet, William Nicholson, Andrew Lane (the author of a new series about Young Sherlock Holmes), star illustrators including Chris Riddell and Axel Scheffler (of The Gruffalo) as well as teen circumnavigator Mike Perham and the captain of the England women's cricket team, and more. Most events take place in Christ Church or Corpus Christi College, or in the Sheldonian.

Highlights of the 270 events on the adult programme include John le Carre, P D James, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Hilary Mantel, Victoria Hislop, Anthony Beevor and Jung Chang. Events for young people are £5 or £6

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Emily Gravett

Join award winning picture book author and illustrator Emily Gravett on Tuesday 16th February 2010 as she talks about her life and reads some of her fantastic books including Monkey and Me. And then become an author yourself as you help her to make up a brand new story! Emily will be at Ridge Avenue Library, Enfield, London (N21 2RH) from 11am and at Palmers Green Library, Enfield, London (N13 4EY) from 2.30pm. Suitable for children aged 4 to 8 and their families. Tickets are free but please book in advance by calling T: 020 8379 2708

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History Panel - Law & Disorder: How to Make an Impression throughout History

Three talented historical fiction authors discuss Law and Disorder on a panel event. Viking historian Giles Kristian with his Raven series, M.C.Scott has the Romans covered with The Emperor's Spy and Ariana Franklin talks Henry 2nd's England in Relics of the Dead.

Three eras, three novelists, three times the value! Press releases can be found at http://bit.ly/56Qxak

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Host a WHERE'S WALLY? event at your library!

Host a WHERE'S WALLY? event at your library! It's as easy as 1, 2, 3, Wally!

1. Hire a FREE Wally costume from Walker Books
2. Order your Where's Wally? stickers and poster (activity sheets on the reverse) from Rebecca Harper at Rebecca.Harper@walker.co.uk
3. Download activity sheets from www.walker.co.uk/wheres wally

Have a wonderful Wally time!

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World Book Day

Thursday 4th March 2010

Jason Donald will read his specially commissioned short story, followed by a discussion.

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Poetry Party with Raman Mundair, our Poet Partner, and local poets

Monday 18th January at 2.30pm

A celebration of poetry with our Poet Partner and several local poets. Refreshments available. Free but ticketed.

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Jeffrey Lewis - author events and book signings for Adam the King and Meritocracy: A Love Story

2010 marks the publication of two exciting new titles by Jeffrey Lewis:

1) Adam the King (March 2010)
- "Lewis catches the thrill of proximity to America's eastern WASP aristocracy to an uncomfortable degree: their studied vagueness, their heartiness, the aloofness that cannot be copied." - Los Angeles Times - This first book of the quartet won both the Independent Publishers Book Award for General Fiction and the ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Award for Fiction.

2). Meritocracy: A Love Story (May 2010)
- "Meritocracy is a dramatic, riveting novel of our times." - New York Review of Books

Jeffrey Lewis won two Emmys as a writer and producer of Hill Street Blues. He lives in Los Angeles and Castine, Maine.

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Win Claire Letemendia's The Best of Men and discuss the book with the author live online!

Win free copies of Claire Letemendia's The Best of Men on CompletelyNovel.com, the social reading and publishing hub, and discuss the book live online with the author who will be joining the ReadersPlace chat forum from Toronto on 10 December, 7pm GMT!

"A completely gripping, brilliantly researched, unputdownable novel of conspiracy, passion and treason, set during the English Civil War."

Enter the competition:
http://www.completelynovel.com/reader_competitions/2#

Read a free sample:
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Paw Tracks In The Moonlight Launch

Please come and celebrate the mesmerising story of the incomparable feline Toby Jug and his owner Denis O' Connor. Set in Northumberland this self-published book has been a huge local bestseller and is now being published nationwide by Constable. This is a book every cat lover must read.

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Lin Anderson - author talk

28 October 2009 3pm

Lin Anderson will talk about her latest novel in the Rhona MacLeod series, "Final Cut", at Lennoxtown Library

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Autumn events in Hammersmith & Fulham

21st Sept to end of October

Authors wanted!
If you are promoting a book in the autumn, I would love to hear from you.
Locations are Hammersmith Library and Fulham Library and also the new Shepherds Bush Library in the Westfields shopping centre. For the latter, I am looking to have some of the events confirmed by early July, for external publicity.

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