The May Flies

coming up: gigs & giggles, 
Brighton, Bookslam, Blahblahblah, Soundwomen Festival,

Hay Festival, Venice Biennale & The London Palladium  

May 2nd / Brighton / Speaky Spokey

With Mick Jackson, Salena Godden, Mark Peterson, Gabriel Gbadamosi, 

Hannah Lowe and Odd Fellows Casino. Get your tickets from Latest Music Bar

 May 7th / Bookslam / Clapham Grand

With Caitlin Moran, author of 'How To Be A Woman'  

Hadley Freeman, author of 'Be Awesome: Modern Life For Modern Ladies'. 

Plus writer and stand-up Sara Pascoe, and live music by SOAK, hosted by Salena Godden

May 13th / Blahblahblah / Bristol Old Vic

With Salena Godden and Holly McNish

May 18th / Soundwomen Festival / BBC Radio Theatre
Hosted by BBC Radio 4’s Fi Glover & Anita Anand and Magic FM’s Angie Greaves
From 1pm on Saturday 18th May in the legendary Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House we’ll be showcasing Sound Women and Sound Men with inspirational stories, who have achieved something exceptional. They’ll be music, poetry and comedy and the bar will be open with plenty of opportunity to meet and chat to speakers and fellow festival-goers…

 May 27th / Hay-On-Wye with Unbound Books

With Red Dwarf star Robert Llewellyn, Strangler Hugh Cornwell,

writer, performer Salena Godden, novelist Charles Fernyhough

and archaeologist-turned-crimewriter Francis Pryor 

with a little help from publisher John Mitchinson plus poet George Chopping   

7pm, Digital Stage. £6. BOOK HERE

 May 28th / Venice Biennale / Trolleyology Book Launch

With Venice debut presentation and performance of 'If The Heart Is A Bell' sound installation and tribute for Gigi Giannuzzi and 10years of Trolley Books by Salena Godden

 

 Book Now! June 9th /  The London Palladium

John Cooper Clarke And Friends 

  

 'Springfield Road' by Salena Godden

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Tickets go on sale today, Salena Godden's Book Club Boutique April 25th

Salena Godden’s Book Club Boutique 

Theme: True Stories / The Art Of Writing Memoir

Dress Code: Dress memorably / Wear your true colours

Tickets: £50 Supper Club Ticket or £10 Party Ticket

RSVP jamila@thekingshead-london.com

We invite you to the launch of the exciting new 2013 series of Salena Godden's Book Club Boutique, the original home of Books, Booze & Boogie-Woogie welcoming you into a salubrious supper club and a literarti party with a twist.

7pm / £50 Supper Club Ticket An elegant 3-course supper, served with wine, in the beautiful Georgian dining room. We will be joined by the magnificent Maggie Gee OBE (acclaimed author of eleven novels, including The White Family, The Ice People, My Cleaner, My Driver and also a memoir about her life as a writer, My Animal Life.) Also we can now announce that brilliant poet and trailblazer Lemn Sissay. Lemn is Trustee of World Book Night. Trustee of Forward Arts Foundation. Patron of coping and education ambassador for The Arvon Foundation. He is ambassador for The Children’s Reading Fund. Published dozens of books and made BBC documentaries on The Last Poets, Bob Marley, Gil Scott Heron, JB Priestley, WH Auden and many more. Lemn will be attending and speaking, alongside award winner  Irfan Masters (A Beautiful Lie) and Roland Chambers (prize-winning author of The Last Englishman, a life of the British children’s writer, Arthur Ransome) You’ll be invited to contribute to the authors conversation on the art of writing memoir and autobiography, the fact and the fiction, by the fireplace.

There will be a debut reading from ‘Springfield Road’ the literary memoir by Salena Godden. And between courses there will be live music from special guests the heart breakingly beautiful blue grass from The Bundy Brothers.  There will also be a presentation of 'If The Heart Is A Bell' the sound-installation and tribute to much loved and missed Trolley publisher Gigi Giannuzzi.

10pm / £10 Party Ticket  After the supper club, special guests The Pop-Up Casino tempt you to try your luck and raise money for charity with black jack, poker and roulette. And in the butterfly room there will be book signings in the BCB book shop, stocked by special guest publishers Unbound and Trolley Books. On the downstairs stage you’ll find stunning performances from hip hop MC’s Adam Kammerling and Ruby Kid; kiss and tell tales of Paula Varjack and our very own Xavier Leret; the yellow world of Robert Auton and the east ends very own cockney poet laureate Tim Wells. Plus live music from the brilliance of Claire Nicolson and also New York soul sister Lisa Lore. After midnight its all about top tunes from the legendary BCBoutique DJ's in the members bar and basement until 5am!

Our glamorous venue is a members club, a vast former Georgian pub building, with a warren of elegantly proportioned rooms decorated with eccentric splendor. There are limited places and so its first come first served. You can NOW book tickets, email and RSVP jamila@thekingshead-london.com

Viva Gigi

Visit 'Springfield Road' by Salena Godden 

Unbound - crowd funded publishing

http://unbound.co.uk/books/springfield-road

Salena Godden's Book Club Boutique: "True Stories" April 25th

  Salena Godden's Book Club Boutique

Please save the date APRIL 25TH !!!

 

Theme: True Stories.

Dress Code: Dress memorably

Dress like your first kiss or your earliest memory  / Wear your true colours

The launch of the exciting new 2013 series of Salena Godden's Book Club Boutique. 

We have a new secret VIP venue, new residency, new format, new supper club, new books, new booze, new boogie-woogie, the debut of 'RadioPictures' and a London introduction to 'Word Casino' The fabulous BCB book shop will be stocked with publications from Unbound Books and Trolley and there will be a presentation of 'If The Heart Is A Bell' the sound-intsallation and tribute to our much-missed and loved friend, Trolley publisher Gigi Giannuzzi.

We'll have beautiful readings, kick ass poets, live music and DJ's, gambling and games and more...until 5am. Plus you'll hear a reading from Springfield Road live and a lively debate on the process of autobiography and the journey a writer encounters when writing memoir. All of this at 'True Stories' THE BOOK CLUB BOUTIQUE event on April 25th! But that's all I will tease you with now. 

We look forward to seeing all of you again, old faces and new faces welcome, the BCB always attracts the most salacious and louche literati party people. Here we come, save this date, watch this facebook event page for tickets and other wicked details: https://www.facebook.com/events/288447521288337/

Yours,
The General. 

NEW: We posted this on The Book Club Boutique channel on youtube did you miss it? 

excerpt from Springfield Road: 'Voodoo' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he8e-PVu4FI

Thank you for supporting my book

the Unbound Books crowd sourcers are the coolest!!

Please share this link  http://unbound.co.uk/books/springfield-road if you like! 

SEE GODDEN NEW LIVE SET THIS WEEK / APRIL 11TH - BANG SAID THE GUN 

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