Past events

Discussing cults at Cornbury Festival
Cornbury Festival, July 2015
Wilderness Festival, July 2015
‘Can novels teach empathy?’ – 10th June 2015, 7pm, Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford: panel discussion with Morten Kringelbach, Nigel Warburton and novelist Rebecca Wait. Tickets £3.
Picador, Pizza and Prosecco – 16th June, 2015, 7pm, Booka Bookshop, Oswestry: in conversation with Sarah Butler and David Whitehouse

Stoke Newington
June 2015, Stoke Newington Literary Festival: Author Confidential, with Andy Miller, David Whitehouse and Lissa Evans.
May 2015: Launch of The Followers, Slightly Foxed Books, London

Speaking about cults at the Sunday Assembly
April 2015: Sunday Assembly, main speaker: How Not to Join a Cult
April 2015: Picador Showcase
February 2015: Literary Death Match, The Century Club
October 2014: ‘Picador and Pizza party’ at Dulwich Books. In discussion with Jessie Burton and Emily St John Mandel.

Dulwich Books (photo courtesy Nina Pottell)
July 2014: Latitude Festival, reading and discussing The Followers
May 7th 2014: Clapham Books, reading from and discussing The View on the Way Down
13th March 2014: Essex Books Festival, in conversation with Matt Haig and Ben Johncock
Thursday 17th October 2013: Ten Words for Tender, The British Library
June 2013: Reading group, Wallingford Bookshop
Saturday 22nd June 2013: Winchester Writers’ Conference
Wednesday 22nd May 2013: signing books in Oxfordshire, at Waterstones and Books & Ink in Banbury, Cole’s Books in Bicester, The Book House in Thame, The Wallingford Bookshop, Mostly Books in Abingdon and Jaffe & Neale in Chipping Norton
Wednesday 15th May 2013, 8pm: Speak Easy: Drink, Shop & Do (Caledonian Road, 9 Caledonian Rd Kings Cross, London N1 9DX)
Monday 13th May 2013: Author talk, Northfield Library, Birmingham
Saturday 27th April 2013: book signing, Waterstones Chesterfield
Saturday 27th April 2013: book signing, Waterstones Sheffield
Saturday 27th April 2013: book signing, Waterstones Doncaster
Friday 19th April 2013: Short Stories Aloud at the Chipping Norton Literary Festival
Thursday 11th April: The Book Stops Here at the Alley Cat, 4 Denmark Street, Soho
Wednesday 10th April: Launch of The View on the Way Down, Blackwell’s Oxford
Wednesday 13th March 2013: ‘Champion’ at the Literary Death Match at Concrete: written up in the Telegraph
Thursday 10th January 2013: Bespoke book club at Picador for The View on the Way Down
Wednesday 14th November 2012: Downstairs at Picador – ‘Introducing the next generation of Picador writers’
Thursday 18th October 2012: Abingdon and St. Helen’s Literary Society dinner – guest speaker