WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH 2012

Peter Matthews

Publishing and Editorial Services Manager, Nielsen Books

Trendy publishing

Peter Mathews has considerable experience working in the 80s and  90s in bookselling retail and as a buyer before joining Nielsen. He will talk to  us about sales trends in reporting figures and where he sees the varied,  apparently unpredictable, influences current in the publishing industry taking  us.

  WEDNESDAY 21 March 2012

Quiz night

Bunghole, High Holborn, London WC1V 6DT at 6.30pm sharp.

Tickets are  £50 per table of 4, or £12.50 single. The price includes a choice of hot  meal.

Places are limited for this ever-popular event, so please book early to  avoid disappointment.

Contact roger.hall35@gmail.com

  WEDNESDAY 18 APRIL 2012

Emma  Kennedy

writer, actor, idiot (according to her Twitter  account)

Me, My Tents, Buckets and other stories

Author Emma Kennedy has been writing for TV and radio  for over a decade and is Travel columnist for The Guardian. Emma has won Sony Awards  for the Sunday Format and The Now Show.  Her most recent books are the best-selling The Tent, The Bucket and Me and I Left My Tent in San Francisco  published under the Ebury Press imprint, and the Wilma Tenderfoot series for MacMillan  Children’s Books.  Emma has appeared in award-winning comedy including Goodness Gracious Me and The Smoking Room. In 2003 she won the Comedy Lounge Best  Actress Award for her role in Bill Shakespeare’s Italian Job and in 2005 won the British  Television Advertising Craft Award for Best Actress.  More recently at the Edinburgh  International Festival, she hosted a preview showing of the first of a new series of  Forbrydelsen, the successful Danish crime drama starring Sofie Grayba¸l. Emma is going to  tell us about her latest projects, about other activities such as her life on  Twitter, plus some future plans.

www.emmakennedy.net

  TUESDAY 29 MAY 2012

Robert  Lacey

Author,  biographer, historian

House of  Windsor, House of Saud: the secrets of royal writing

The author  of several works which have become international bestsellers, Robert Lacey gained international recognition for his ground-breaking biography of Queen  Elizabeth II which was published in 1977. Majesty is still widely  recognized as the definitive study of the British monarchy. Other notable works  include his earlier historical biographies, Robert, Earl of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh. The evening’s talk will spotlight his recent work  and discuss his choice of subjects generally.Robert is  particularly noted for his original historical research, and his intimate  studies bring him very close to his subjects. Robert continues to focus on  monarchic subjects in his writing and lectures; from the highly topical  Inside the  Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists,  Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia to the very timely A Brief Life of the  Queen. 

http://www.robertlacey.com/

  WEDNESDAY 14 June 2012

Summer party