Author’s Evening – The Mouse and His Child

About this event:

Author’s Evening – The Mouse and His Child and meet Catherine O’Flynn: Special author reading as part of the London Book Fair.

Her debut novel, What Was Lost, won the Costa First Novel Award 2007, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the Booker and Orange Prizes. She was named Waterstone’s Newcomer of the Year at the 2008 Galaxy British Book Awards. Her second novel The News Where You Are, published in 2010, was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, an Edgar Allen Poe Award and was a Channel 4 TV Book Club choice. Her third novel Mr Lynch’s Holiday was published in 2013. Her short stories and articles have featured in Granta, The Independent, The Observer and on Radio 3 and 4. Lori & Max is her first children’s novel publishing in September 2019 by Firefly Press.

For the upcoming exhibition The Mouse and His Child, NOW Gallery are inviting you to explore the relationship between childhood and adulthood over seven special literary evenings held in Studio Morison’s enchanted children’s library. These events will range from spoken word to lectures to poetry readings and will be joined by some of the brightest and most talented people in literature, with each night taking one of the books from the library as a theme. Adults and children of all ages are welcome to come along, have a drink, relax on the cosy rug under the huge glowing helium balloon, and rediscover their inner child.

Price: £3 for BookTrust

Website URL: nowgallery.co.uk

Location: NOW Gallery, Peninsula Square, Greenwich Peninsula, London SE10 0SQ

Details are subject to change so please make sure you check with the venue before setting out. Thanks!