Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival starts on 5 May

Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival starts on 5 May and includes talks, discussions, and performances - all totally FR*EE.

Download the pdf at http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyr...09Brochure.pdf

Visit the Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival webpage at http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/LeisureCulture/Libraries/ReadersWritersFestival.htm

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Writing in Khadambi's Footsteps with Akin Oladimeji
Tuesday 5 May and Tuesday 19 May 2009
7-9pm
Two linked evenings to be held at Khadambi Asalache's astonishing house on Wandsworth Road. To book a place email Tim O'Dell at to'dell@lambeth.gov.uk or phone 020 7926 1105.

Katherine Bing - Singleholic

Brixton Library
Thursday 7 May
7pm

A Charmed Life film showing with an introduction by Patrick Vernon

Nettlefold Hall, West Norwood Library
Friday 8 May
7pm
A documentary film charting the life of Eddie Martin Noble (1917-2007), who provided an inspiration for Andrea Levy's book Small Island. More information at www.everygeneration.co.uk

Stuart McBride - Blind Eye

Streatham Library
Friday 8 May
7pm

The poems of Drummond Allison: Come, Let Us Pity Death
South Lambeth Library
Monday 11 May
7pm
Ross Davies tells the story of the World War II Two officer and poet who died at 22 and wrote the cricket poem The Oval as well as Come, Let Us Pity Death

Comic Writing for the Mid-Life Crisis with Arthur Smith and Mark Steel

Nettlefold Hall, West Norwood Library
Thursday 14 May
7pm

The Strangeness of Brendan McCarthy
Minet Library
Saturday 16 May
2.30pm
Brendan McCarthy is a comic book creator and designer, who has worked on Strange Days, Freakwave, Skin, Summer of Love, Paradax! and Gosh.

Chris Mullin - A View from the Foothills
Durning Library
Monday 18 May
6.45pm

Mullin has written a wry and self-deprecating diary about life in New Labour from 1999 to 2005.

Amanda Craig - Hearts and Minds

Carnegie Library, Herne Hill
Monday 18 May
6.45pm

Writing in Khadambi's Footsteps with Akin Oladimeji
Tuesday 19 May 2009
7-9pm
Two linked evenings to be held at Khadambi Asalache's astonishing house on Wandsworth Road. To book a place email Tim O'Dell at to'dell@lambeth.gov.uk or phone 020 7926 1105.

Helen Oyeyemi - White Is for Witching

Brixton Library
Wednesday 20 May
7pm

Historic Clapham

Clapham Library
Thursday 21 May
7pm
Michael Green and Alyson Wilson of the Clapham Society introduce books on the history of Clapham.

Graphic Novel Night with Pat Mills and Paul Gravett

Streatham Library
Saturday 23 May
7pm

Gillian Slovo - Black Orchids

West Norwood Library
Tuesday 26 May
7pm

North Sea Radio Orchestra

Brixton Library
Friday 29 May
7.30pm
A unique 20-strong chamber group perform music of beauty and originality featuring wind, strings, percussion, guitars, organs and voices, from their album Birds.

For more details and to book tickets email readersandwriters@lambeth.gov.uk