ALI SHAW

Happy New Year, my dears.  I hope those mince pies were piping hot and that mulled wine was topped up with enough brandy to make you giddy.

I’m going to be at Blackwell’s Broad Street, Oxford, at 7pm on Tues 17th January to talk about The Man who Rained with the fabulous Roma Tearne.  It would be wonderful to see you there if you can make it.  This is going to be my first time talking in any depth (in public, at least) about the novel so it will be an exciting first for me.

If you’d like to come, tickets are £2 a pop from Blackwell’s and all the details are here.

I’m doing a couple of events next week that it would be great to see folks at.

The first is on Wednesday 28th at Reigate Library at 7:30, where I’ll be talking about The Girl with Glass Feet.  It should be a fun chance to chat about the book and enjoy a glass of wine.  All the details are here.

The second event is on Thursday 29th at Blackwell’s Oxford, with fellow novelist Roma Tearne.  Roma is spending that week in residency in the book shop, and all week long she’s going to be running a polling station there.  You’ll be able to go in and vote for your favourite kinds of books: a reading general election to run alongside the political one.  On Thursday night the results will be announced and debated, and it promises to be a very exciting and lively affair.  Details are here, with more to follow.

I’ve been MIA for a bit, sorting a few things out here and there, but I hope to be back to posting more regularly soon.  In the meantime, a mention that I’m going to be appearing at Bath Literary Festival on Sunday 7th March with Mathias Malzieu, author of The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock Heart.  Kick-off is at 6.15 and all the info is here.

In other news I’ve just done a bit of blog housekeeping, having realised that I’d neglected to categorise lots of posts, including a few of the drawings for fairy stories.  So if you missed one of those, you can check it out using the categories menu on the right.  A new post in that series should be arriving soon…

Just a reminder that this Wednesday evening I’ll be appearing at Blackwell Broad Street in Oxford alongside Samantha Harvey, James Miller and Poppy Adams to talk about our books and writing in general.  Details are here (you’ll need to scroll down to the Oxford section).