On 15 May, I shall be giving a talk at SAF restaurant, upstairs at Wholefoods on High Street Kensington (London). The evening starts at 6.45pm. I’ll be talking about Charles Dickens and SAF will be serving delicious food. For more information or to buy tickets, email Francesca on: francesca@bboheme I hope to see you there.
I shall be talking about 200 Years of Charles Dickens at Shepherd’s Bush Library, London W12 on Saturday (28th April) at 3pm. A few people have told me they don’t know where the library is. It is on Wood Lane next to Westfield shopping centre (if you go to the old Shepherd’s Bush library you … Read more
A big thank you to everyone who came along to my World Book Night talk at High Wycombe Library on Monday (and to the lovely woman who gave me a WBN free book) and to those of you who came along to Richmond Library last night (and to the very kind man who brought me … Read more
read more p>If you’re a fan of proper bookshops, then one of the shops you should know about is Bookmark in Spalding, Lincolnshire. I gave a talk there last night and was so impressed by how huge, comprehensive and welcoming the shop is. There’s a lovely cafe too, so it’s worth making a special trip … Read more
As you may be aware, the controversial decision has been made to close the Charles Dickens Museum in London for most of the Dickens bicentenary year. I have received many queries about this and I would like to clarify that I took no part at all in this ludicrous decision, nor was I told about … Read more
I was invited onto the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 to talk about the impending closure of the Charles Dickens Museum, in the year of his bicentenary. You can listen to it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9680000/9680653.stm adobe acrobat download zp8497586rq
Today I was interviewed by the BBC World Service for a special programme on Dickens and India; it will be broadcast in time for his bicentenary. Depending on which region you live in, it will go live on either 6th or 7th Feb. microsoft oem software zp8497586rq
If you’re studying Dickens with the Open University, new podcasts are soon going to be available to you. I really enjoyed meeting the lovely Eve yesterday, who has been interviewing several Dickens experts and will be getting the podcasts of our interviews ready to download in the next few months.
I was interviewed this week by Robin Gibson from BBC South East. We had a great time in Rochester talking about Charles Dickens. It will be shown on TV during the week of 7th February (the date of Dickens’ 200th birthday). cheap software downloads oem 765qwerty765