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Lambeth Readers & Writers Festival 2021 A GUIDE TO EVENTS IN OUR LIBRARIES SPRING TO SUMMER 2021 www.lambeth.gov.uk/ReadersandWriters 101907 (4.21)
READERS & WRITERS FESTIVAL 2021 / PAGE 2
I am delighted to welcome you to the Lambeth
Libraries Readers and Writers Festival. The 2021 festival is here with
another month-long programme of inspirational literary events – we hope
you find something to enjoy. Since the first festival some 17 years ago
it has become a regular highlight in the Library calendar and goes from
strength to strength. In 2021 we have another month of events to suit
all tastes whether you enjoy reading, writing, discussion or simply sit-
ting back and listening. Come and join us and express yourself! You’ll be
amazed at the fun you can have in your local library.
@ReadersWritersF #LamLitFest21
Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival Cllr Sonia Winifred
readersandwriters@lambeth.gov.uk Cabinet Member for Equalities and Culture
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Literary Bingo with Lambeth be posting literary quiz questions and to get the bingo cards,
Libraries for you to answer. Follow us visit the Readers and Writers
Throughout May on Twitter and download your Festival Facebook page from
@ReadersWritersF bingo card then crack the daily 1st May and then check us on
quiz questions and cross off any Twitter each day where we will
Join us for the month of May to answers you have to complete post your daily Bingo quiz clue.
challenge your literary knowledge. your card… and BINGO! For
Each day during the month we’ll instructions on how to play
Barney Jones
The Volunteer: The True an amazing character whose life
Story of the Resistance Hero we should all know more about;
who Infiltrated Auschwitz a man who willingly volunteered
with author Jack Fairweather to be imprisoned in the death
and Clare Mulley camp Auschwitz in order to
Thursday 6 May, 7pm put together an underground
Book here resistance within the fences of
the camp.
Writer and broadcaster, Clare
Mulley, joins the Costa Prize This event is co-organised
award–winning author and with Poles in South London
journalist Jack Fairweather, – Local Heroes Archive and
to discuss the story of Witold Pilecki Institute, supported by
Pilecki, a Polish cavalry officer Polish Embassy and Polish
and resistance leader during the Cultural Institute in London.
Second World War. Pilecki was
Patrick McGrath – Last Days he is tormented by grief and adapt to new circumstances –
in Cleaver Square guilt about a brief, terrible act of and that the time has come to
Monday 10 May, 7pm betrayal from that time; and he’s confront his past once and for all.
Book here started seeing his old nemesis
on the street, in the garden Join Patrick to discuss his much-
It’s 1975 and Francis McNulty and now in his bedroom. When anticipated new novel. Event
is nearing the end of his life Gillian announces her impending organised with the Friends of
but feeling far from peaceful. A marriage to a senior civil servant, Durning Library.
veteran of the Spanish Civil War, Francis realises that he must
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The Novotny Papers with Taylor, a London conman who
author Lilian Pizzichini had high-ranking officers in his
Tuesday 11 May, 7pm deep pockets. Mariella brought
Book here them all down and was found
dead in February 1983. She
It is almost impossible to was in the process of writing her
summarise the extraordinary memoirs and Christine Keeler
life of Mariella Novotny in a few said she was convinced it was
paragraphs. In 1961 she was murder, most probably by the CIA.
engaging in sexual relations with
President John F. Kennedy and Mariella Novotny’s life was an
believed to be a Communist intrigue, embroiled in some of
agent. Two years later she was the top spy and crime stories
involved in the Profumo Affair. of the day and through Lilian’s
Then in the 1970s she began biography emerges as an
working undercover investigating embodiment of the emergence
police corruption in the Flying of a radical sexual politics.
Squad. Her chief target was the Organised with the Friends of
author’s grandfather, Charlie Carnegie Library.
Lola Olufemi – Feminism, revolutionary book reclaims Event organised with the Friends
Interrupted: Disrupting feminism from consumerism of South Lambeth Library.
Power through exploring state violence
Wednesday 12 May, 7pm against women, reproductive
Book here justice, transmisogyny, sex work,
gendered Islamophobia and
Plastered over t-shirts and tote much more, showing that the
bags, the word ‘feminist’ has struggle for gendered liberation
entered the mainstream and is a struggle for justice, one
is fast becoming a popular that can transform the world for
slogan for our generation. But everyone. Join Lola Olufemi,
feminism isn’t a commodity up in discussion with author Yara
for purchase; it’s a weapon for Rodrigues-Fowler, to discuss
fighting against injustice. This her latest book.
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Radical Readers: Can’t Pay, For the 30th anniversary of the
Won’t Pay: The Fight to Stop Poll Tax rebellion, Simon Hannah
the Poll Tax with author looks back on those tumultuous
Simon Hannah days of resistance, telling the
Friday 14 May, 7pm story of the people that beat the
Book here bailiffs, rioted for their rights and
defied a government.
Thirty years ago, a social
movement helped bring down Join the Radical Readers to
one of the most powerful British discuss the book with author
Prime Ministers of the 20th Simon Hannah. For a copy of the
Century. book and to join the discussion
please contact the library on
020 7926 1056.
Digital Originals – Writing Lambeth Libraries and publisher S&S are inviting residents of
Competition for Lambeth Simon & Schuster are delighted Lambeth to submit the first three
residents with publishers to announce that they will be chapters of their unpublished
Simon & Schuster hosting a #DigitalOriginals fiction manuscript on 15 May
Saturday 15 May #OneDay open submission 2021 for consideration for
For entry details and day (#LoveLamLibOneDay) #DigitalOriginals, the S&S eBook
information visit Simon exclusively for residents of the first publishing programme, as
& Schuster’s Books London Borough of Lambeth, part of the Lambeth Libraries
and the City website enabling authors to bypass the Readers and Writers Literary
traditional route to publishing and Festival 2021.
submit, for the first time, directly
to the editorial team.
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The Many Voices of Bob and poetry, Dylan is a man of Lose Yourself You Reappear:
Dylan with Paul Morley many personas. From defying The Many Voices of Bob Dylan,
Tuesday 18 May, 7pm pop music conventions with explores the many voices of the
Book here protest songs such as The Times folk icon.
They Are a-Changin’ to releasing
Join Paul Morley to discuss three of the most influential rock Paul Morley is an English music
his new insightful biography albums of the 60s, he has not journalist, well known for his
of one of the world’s greatest only extended the parameters of work with the New Musical
musicians, Bob Dylan, who has music genres but has also shown Express. He was a co-founder of
enriched the American song us the fluidity of his craft. To the record label ZTT Records and
tradition for over 50 years. With mark Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday was a member of the synthpop
a talent that has been proven in and 60 illustrious years in the group Art of Noise.
the worlds of music, radio, art arts, this new biography, You
Leone Ross – This One Sky As the sun rises, two star-
Hayley Benoit
Day crossed lovers try to find
Wednesday 19 May, 7pm their way back to one another
Book here across this single day. When
night falls, all have been given
a gift, and many are no longer
the same. The sky is pink, and
some wonder if it will ever be
blue again.
Join Leone to discuss her latest
stunning and unforgettable
new novel.
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A night to celebrate Love, Anstey Harris will talk about and shortlisting for the inaugural
Life, Laughter… and school- her heart-breaking new novel British Book Award Pageturner
run affairs! Where We Belong, James Bailey Award, means to him and talk
Thursday 20 May, 7pm introduces us to his hilarious about his life-affirming new novel,
Book here debut The Flipside, Mike Gayle All the Lonely People, and Eva
will share what his recent Verde, will discuss her bitter
Join us for a very special virtual Romantic Novelists’ Association sweet (Kit de Waal endorsed)
event with four fantastic authors. Outstanding Achievement Award, debut Lives Like Mine.
LGBTQ+ book club discuss a brave new world of pot-growing own decisions. The saga that
Tales of the City by landladies, cut-throat debutantes, ensues introduces vignettes that
Armistead Maupin spaced-out neighbours and are manic, romantic, tawdry and
Friday 28 May, 7pm outrageous parties. Finding a job touching – unmistakably the
Book here as a secretary at an ad agency, handiwork of Armistead Maupin.
Mary Ann wants to start her own Join Lambeth Libraries LGBTQ+
Fresh out of Cleveland, naive life, away from her parents and book club to discuss this now
Mary Ann tumbles headlong into with the flower-power freedom classic work.
to make her own friends and her
Nadifa Mohamed – The West Indian sailors, Maltese isn’t too worried. It is true that
Sean and Seng
Fortune Men businessmen and Jewish he has been getting into trouble
Thursday 3rd June families. He is a father, chancer, more often since his Welsh wife
Book here some-time petty thief. He is Laura left him. But Mahmood
many things, in fact, but he is is secure in his innocence in a
Mahmood Mattan is a fixture not a murderer. So, when a country where, he thinks, justice
in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, 1952, shopkeeper is brutally killed and is served. Join Nadifa to discuss
which bustles with Somali and all eyes fall on him, Mahmood her fantastic new novel.
EVENTS FOR CHILDREN READERS & WRITERS FESTIVAL 2021 / PAGE 8
Meet Children’s Book Author Listen to children’s author books to attendees after the
Chitra Soundar and storyteller read from her session.
Thursday 6 May, 2pm to 3pm beautifully illustrated books
Book here You’re Safe with Me and You’re Delivered in partnership
Strong With Me, heart-warming with Lambeth Early Years
stories suitable for families with Partnership (LEAP) and
babies and young children, Lantana Publishing.
followed by songs and rhymes.
We will be sending Chitra’s For Under 3s.
Special rhyme and storytime Karen is the author of a newly watching her little one grow up
– Guest author Karen Farrell published children’s picture book and wondering what adventures
Thursday 13 May, 2pm called Munchkin’s Adventures she was getting up to while her
Book here which follows the imaginary parents went about their daily
adventures of her daughter activities.
Alice. The idea came to Karen
while she was on maternity leave
Special rhyme and storytime Sandra is the author of Aminata her school essentials. During the
– Guest author Sandra and the Bag of Seeds. Her first lockdown she wrote a story
Moodie work has stretched over three featuring Aminata as the main
Thursday 13 May, 2pm decades with children in schools, character to inspire her and her
Book here parents and families in her roles peers at Bojang Tamba School
as a community leader and in a village called Lamin.
Children’s Centre Manager. In
January 2020 Sandra started
sponsoring Aminata Jaru, a little
girl in The Gambia, to provide
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Special rhyme and storytime Lee Attard is the author/illustrator
– Guest author Lee Attard of the children’s picture book
Thursday 13 May, 2pm The Crocodile Who Couldn’t
Book here Swim and is also the founder
of Toon World. Toon World is
a children’s brand featuring an
ever-growing selection of cartoon
animal characters, bringing you
a super fun collection of rhyming
children’s books.
Elmer Day Elmer makes the world a much
Saturday 29 May brighter place. For this year’s
All Lambeth Libraries online Elmer Day help us spread the
positivity of Elmer by getting
your own free resources and join
the celebration in May. See your
local library for details or visit
https://www.elmer.co.uk/elmer-
day/
LAMBETH LIBRARIES
Brixton Library Streatham Library
Brixton Oval 63 Streatham High Road
SW2 1JQ SW16 1PN
Tel: 020 7926 1058 Tel: 020 7926 6768
Carnegie Library Tate South Lambeth Library
192 Herne Hill Road 180 South Lambeth Road
SE24 0AG SW8 1QP
Tel: 020 7926 6050 Tel: 020 7926 0705
Clapham Library Upper Norwood Library
Mary Seacole Centre 39-41 Westow Hill
91 Clapham High Street SE19 1TJ
SW4 7DB Tel: 020 7926 1063
Tel: 020 7926 0717
Waterloo Library
Durning Library The Oasis Centre
167 Kennington Lane 1 Kennington Road
SE11 4HF SE1 7QP
Tel: 020 7926 8682 Tel: 0207 926 8751
Minet Library West Norwood Library
52 Knatchbull Road 1-5 Norwood High Street
SE5 9QY SE27 9JX
Tel: 0207 926 6073 Tel: 020 7926 8092
This information was believed to be correct at the time it was
published, but may be subject to changes and circumstances
outside the control of the organisers. For more events and
information visit www.lambeth.gov.uk/events
Booking: Unless otherwise stated please book by phoning the
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