Past events
‘Can novels teach empathy?’ – Wednesday 10th June, 7pm, Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford: panel discussion with Morten Kringelbach, Nigel Warburton and novelist Rebecca Wait. Tickets £3.
Picador, Pizza and Prosecco – Tuesday 16th June, 7pm, Booka Bookshop, Oswestry: in conversation with Sarah Butler and David Whitehouse
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
April 2015: Sunday Assembly, main speaker: How Not to Join a Cult
Speaking about cults at the Sunday Assembly, Conway Hall, April 2015
Picador Showcase 2015
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, 2014 (photo Nina Pottell)
July 2014: Latitude Festival, reading from The View on the Way Down
Latitude Festival 2014
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
Clapham Books, 2014
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
Signing at the Book House in Thame, 2013
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
Launch, The View on the Way Down
Launch, The View on the Way Down
Launch, The View on the Way Down, Blackwell’s, Oxford
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
Crowned champion at Literary Death Match, 2013
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
Abingdon and St. Helen’s School Literary Society Dinner, 2013
Signing copies of The View at Goldsboro Books, 2012
