Upcoming Events
Cauvery Madhavan author appearances
13th September 2024 - 3rd February 2025
From the 13th of September to early February 2025, you can find Cauvery Madhavan, author of The Tainted, The Inheritance, at the below events.
January 2025:
Kerala Literary Festival, India
February 2025:
Jaipur Literary Festival, India
April 2025
USA University tour
April 1st - 2024 Gerson Irish Literature Reading, Connecticut
Followed by a tour of Universities in the States
July 2025:
West Cork Literary Festival, Ireland
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Past Events
Never Tell Anyone Your Name blog tour
Thursday 2nd November - Wednesday 15th November
From the 2nd to the 15th of November, book bloggers around the internet will be reviewing Federico Ivanier's new YA novel
Never Tell Anyone Your Name, translated by Claire Storey. The list (including links) is as follows:
02 Nov Wild Writing Life
03 Nov Lozzie Loves
06 Nov South Sea Reads
07 Nov Cheryl M-M's Book Blog
08 Nov Stratosphere Kawaii Girl
09 Nov Mai's Musings
10 Nov Random Things Through My Letterbox
13 Nov Paula Learmouth
14 Nov Book A Holic 17
15 Nov Bookstagram Hann
Federico Ivanier at the Young Adult Literature Convention
Saturday 11th November |11:00am GMT
Federico will be in London as a guest of the UK Young Adult Literature Convention (YALC) on 11-12 November alongside fellow panelists Holly Jackson, Kalynn Bayron, and Kathleen Glasgow to discuss how to write page-turning YA thrillers full of twists, turns and drama. The full programme, including this panel, can be found on the YALC website.
Tickets are available from Eventbrite. We hope to see many of you there!
21 Miles blog tour
Thursday 16th November - Monday 27th November
Our second blog tour of the month, this time focusing around Nicola Garrard's YA novel 21 Miles, the thrilling sequel to 29 Locks. All the details, with links, are below:
16 Nov Paula Learmouth
17 Nov Stratosphere Kawaii Girl
20 Nov Much To Do About Writing
21 Nov Book A Holic 17
23 Nov Random Things Through My Letterbox
27 Nov Natural Bri Books
Events Archive
Max Lobe at The Coast is Queer
Saturday 14th October|3:00pm BST
L As part of Brighton's Coast is Queer festival, Max Lobe will be in conversation with Okechukwu Nzelu to discuss crossing boundaries and borders in queer literature. More information and tickets are available from the Coast is Queer website.
Afternoon of Remembrance: Madan Lal Dhingra and Pash
Sunday 10th September|2:30 - 5:30pm BST
Leena Dhingra, author of Exhumation: The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra, will be at the Shaheed Udham Singh Welfare Centre in Birmingham to discuss her book on Madan Lal Dhingra in conversation with Savita Vij. The afternoon will also include stories, poetry and speeches in tribute to Pash.
Music, Jerk ‘n Tings at the Horniman Museum
Saturday 12th August|12:00 - 7:00pm BST
On the 12th of August, the Horniman Museum will be marking the 75th anniversary of Windrush and celebrating the contribution of Caribbean culture to Britain with family activities, live music, dancing and food, featuring Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings: A Windrush Story author Tony Fairweather. More information and tickets can be found on the museum website here.
Tony Fairweather at Croydon Carnival
Sunday 30th July
As part of the Croydon Carnival this year, Tony Fairweather did a book signing. The full schedule is available on the
Croydon Carnival website here.
'The Front Room: A Windrush Legacy' stage play
Saturday 29 July | 7:30pm BST
Author Tony Fairweather's stage play 'The Front Room' was performed at Fairfield Halls in Croydon, starring Felicity Ethnic and Vanessa White-Smith. The second part of the evening was a concert of Windrush-era music. For more information and tickets, see
the Fairfield Halls website here.
FIFA World Cup Reading Challenge
Thursday 20 July | 10:30am BST
An online event by the National Literacy Trust featuring Manisha Tailor, author of Dream Like Me: South Asian Football Trailblazers, other authors, and Leah Williamson. The event can be watched on the National Literacy Trust website.
Windrush Front Room at the Horniman Museum
Saturday 24th June
| 10:00am-5:30pm BST
Tony Fairweather's recreation of a Windrush era living room is coming to the Horniman Museum. Tony will be reading from his book
Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings
at 2:00pm, followed by a signing. He will also be leading tours. Felicity Ethnic and community elders will also be there to tell their stories through the day. For more information and tickets, see
the Horniman Museum website here.
Tony Fairweather at Brixton Library
Wednesday 21st June 2023|6:30pm BST
As part of the Lambeth Libraries Readers and Writers Festival, Tony Fairweather and Alexis Keir will appear at Brixton Library to discuss the importance of Windrush and their books Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings: A Windrush Story (Tony Fairweather) and Windward Family (Alexis Keir).
More information and tickets can be found on Eventbrite here.
Nicola Garrard at the Chichester Fringe
Wednesday 14th June 2023
| 5:30-6:15pm BST
Nicola Garrard will be at the Chichester Fringe this year to participate in the Poetry Take Off! poetry reading at Draper's Yard. The full schedule and tickets can be found on the
Chichester Fringe Website here.
Rediscovering Kamala Markandaya
Saturday 10th June
Rediscovering Kamala Markandaya at this year's Jaipur Literature Festival at The British Library, with Namita Gokhale, Kim Oliver (the daughter of author Kamala Markandaya) and Alastair Niven, chaired by Mohini Gupta.
Further information and tickets can be found at the British Library website here.
Nicola Garrard at the Hay Festival
Tuesday 30th May
| 4:00pm BST
As part of this year's Hay Festival, Nicola Garrard will appear on the panel 'The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize: How to Get Your Work Published' alongside Catherine Chanter and Carly Reagon. All the panelists were previously shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for undiscovered female writers and are now published authors.
This is a free event with no ticket required. More information can be found on the Hay Festival website here.
Tony Fairweather's Jamaican tour
Friday 19th - Wednesday 31st May
Tony Fairweather visits Jamaica for a tour including TV and radio interviews, book readings, and panel discussions. He will appear at the Calabash Literary Festival (26-28 May) on the 27th. For more information and tickets, see the
festival website here.
Max Lobe in conversation at Afrori Books
Tuesday 21st February 2023|7pm GMT
Max will be in conversation with a reading, signing, and Q&A.
More information and tickets can be found on the Afrori Books event page here.
Max Lobe at Polari in Heaven
Wednesday 22nd February 2023|7pm GMT
Max Lobe, author of DOES SNOW TURN A PERSON WHITE INSIDE?, will be the special guest visiting author at the iconic literary salon Polari in Heaven.
More information and tickets can be found on Eventbrite
here.
Max Lobe and Ros Schwartz at Waterstones Gower Street
Thursday 23rd February 2023 |7pm GMT
Max Lobe will join his translator Ros Schwartz for a discussion of his book DOES SNOW TURN A PERSON WHITE INSIDE?. The event will be chaired by Jane Link, founder and editor of Big Black Books.
Arrival and welcome drinks will begin at 6pm. Readings, conversation and audience Q&A will run from 6:30 to 7:45pm.
For more information and tickets, visit the Waterstones Gower Street events page
here.
Manisha Tailor at Pioneer Secondary Academy
07/10/2022
Manisha Tailor, author of DREAM LIKE ME: South Asian Football Trailblazers, visited the Pioneer Secondary Academy where she talked with the Girls Football Team.
Fatima Daas at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
26/08/2022
A brilliant event for Fatima Daas, along with Shumona Sinha and Marjorie Lofti, at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival - on the complex facets of identity, and rejection of a single story.
Tony Fairweather on Talk TV with Trisha Goddard
14/08/2022
Tony discussed his debut novel TWENTY-EIGHT POUNDS TEN SHILLINGS: a WINDRUSH STORY, with Trisha Goddard during her 'Up Close & Personal' segment.
Manisha Tailor on Sky Sports with Julia Gillard
Check out the insightful discussion where Manisha Tailor, author of DREAM LIKE ME: South Asian Football Trailblazers was in conversation with former Australian PM Julia Gillard, Rupinder Bains and Millie Chandarana talking about women and leadership in sport. You can watch the interview
here.
Brixton Library Book Reading and Signing - Tony Fairweather
16/06/2022
As part of his ongoing Book Launch Tony was hosted by Brixton Library. Tony discussed the inception of his debut novel TWENTY-EIGHT POUNDS TEN SHILLINGS: A WINDRUSH STORY, and shared read parts of his novel.
Read, Think, Act - Fatima Daas with Lighthouse Books
10/06/2022
As part of the Read, Think, Act series by Lighthouse Books Fatima Daas, author of THE LAST ONE, discussed heritage and belonging in relation to THE LAST ONE
Book Launch for
Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings: A Windrush Story
31/05/2022
The event was hosted at the Brixton House Theatre and featured a great conversation between Brenda Emmanus OBE and Tony Fairweather, they discussed Tony's debut novel and the factors that motivated him to write it.
Past Events with Tony Fairweather
26/05: Online Event in association with Words of Colour.
27/05: Interview in association with the Black Heroes Foundation.
29/05: Interview with Dotun Adebayo on BBC Radio London.
The Last One: Events Tour
Fatima Daas in Conversation
28/02: In conversation at the French Institute in Edinburgh. Tickets
01/03: In conversation at the Alliance française in Glasgow.
02/03: Fatima Daas and Diyora Shadijanova, at the French Institute in London.
Ferdinand Dennis on His Short Story Story Collection with Renaissance One
Online Event
23/02/2022
Ferdinand Dennis author of the short-story collection, The Black and White Museum was interviewed by Melanie Abrahams and special guest Yvonne Brewster, and discussed his powerful short stories focussed on the Black experience, exploring loss and a longing for a true sense of home.
Leena Dhingra: Challenging the Raj
At Waterstones Canterbury
01/02/2022
During this live event held at Waterstones Canterbury, Leena Dhingra discussed the remarkable story of her uncle, Madan Lal Dhingra, and her book Exhumation.
2020.Thursday 15th October
Bonnington Gallery with Nicola Garrard in conversation with Eve Makis
01/02/2022
This online event spanned writing, authenticity and love, in a conversation around Nicola Garrard's recently published 29 LOCKS.
ber 2020.Thursday 15th October
Nicola Garrard at Chichester Literary Society
02/02/2022
Nicola Garrard was invited by the Chichester Literary Society, to speak about the themes and issues explored in her YA debut 29 LOCKS.
ctober 2020
Novel Voices: Nicola Garrard and Joan Deitch in Conversation with Ellah P. Wakatama
22/11/2021
Nicola Garrard and her editor, Joan Deitch, discussed Nicola's YA debut,
29 LOCKS with Ellah P Wakatama, as part of Manchester University's Novel Voices series.
SAHR Fiction Prize finalists
17/11/2021
Chaired by Dr Jacqueline Reiter, Cauvery Madhavan join a panel of prize winners and runners up of the SAHR Prize for Military Fiction.
Leena Dhingra live at Nantwich Bookshop
15/10/2021
On Friday 15 October Leena Dhingra spoke about the unravelling of buried stories in Exhumation: The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra to a full house at the Nantwich Bookshop.
Here's a taste of the event for those who missed it, on the events and encounters that led to the publication of
Exhumation.
Live launch for 29 LOCKS with Nicola Garrard, at Word on the Water
30/09/2021
On Thursday 30 September at 5pm we celebrated the launch 29 LOCKS, Nicola Garrard’s stunning YA debut, at Word on the Water in Coal Drops Yard. Our first event since 2019 included readings, book signing, audience Q&A and live saxophone music.
Here's a chance to catch up on a reading from the evening.
ber 2020.Thursday 15th October
Exhumation: The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra
Leena Dhingra in conversation with Kishwar Desai for South Asian Heritage Month
16/08/2021
On the eve of publication of
Exhumation: The Life and Death of Madan Lal Dhingra
the author Leena Dhingra, spoke with Kishwar Desai, on the remarkable story of her great uncle and as well as that of the journey to come to terms with this painful episode from her family's past and the the dark legacy of colonialism it reveals.
You can catch up here.
Inclusive Indies: Instagram Live takeover with Ros Schwartz
15/07/2021
Translator Ros Schwartz spoke with HopeRoad's Jessie Spivey on the mix of serious themes and lively tone that makes
Max Lobe's A LONG WAY FROM DOUALA such a unique read, as part of the #InclusiveIndies campaign.
Catch up
here.
ber 2020.Thursday 15th October 2020
In The Company of Men: The Ebola Tales, Virtual launch
25/05/2021
How can art respond to crisis? Véronique Tadjo and guest Nii Ayikwei Parkes, were hosted by Melanie Abrahams in the brilliant event with RenaissanceOne.
In Human Fragility: From Ebola to Covid: Véronique Tadjo in conversation with Chiara Ricciardone
06/04/2021
Véronique Tadjo spoke with writer Chiara Ricciardone, at Cafe Culture NorthEast, discussing her forthcoming novel, In the Company of Men, and its critical questions about how we cope with a global crisis and how we can combat fear and prejudice.
Of Matters Military: Facts and Fictions: Cauvery Madhavan and Tim I. Gurung in conversation with Vayu Naidu at Jaipur Literature Festival
27/02/2021
In conversation with author and performance storyteller Vayu Naidu, Cauvery Madhaven and Tim I. Gurung speak of the theatre of war and the human emotions that relate to it.
In the Company of Men. A Conversation between Véronique Tadjo and Madeleine Dobie
01/12/2020
Véronique Tadjo talking about her novel In The Company of Men: The Ebola Tales, which we publish in Spring 2021. Her poignant, timely fable reflects on both the strength and the fragility of life and of humanity’s place in the natural world and is acutely relevant to our times in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
Cauvery Madhavan and Felicity Hayes-McCoy in conversation at Dingle Lit Festival
22/11/2020
Cauvery Madhaven and author Felicity Hayes-McCoy discuss Cauvery's novel The Tainted and the future of a multicultural Ireland.
Missed it? Catch up
here!
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Book Launch of
Duppy Conqueror by Ferdinand Dennis
11/11/2020
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To celebrate our republication of Ferdinand Dennis's brilliant Duppy Conqueror, we collaborated with RenaissanceOne for a Zoom launch including conversation, readings by the author and a Q&A.
Cauvery Madhavan and Margaret Scott in conversation at Kildare Readers Festival
15/10/2020
Cauvery and author Margaret Scott in a conversation about the writing process, immense book research and much more.
Zoom launch for A Match Made in Heaven
16/09/2020
Chaired by one of the book’s three editors Claire Chambers, new and established authors from A Match Made in Heaven: British Muslim Women Write About Love and Desire, came together to discuss themes and inspirations in their stories.
Strange Flowers: Donal Ryan in conversation with Cauvery Madhavan at Jaipur Lit Festival
04/09/2020
Irish author Donal Ryan speaks to writer Cauvery Madhavan about the muses, methods and inspirations behind his latest work, Strange Flowers.
Missed it? You can catch up here on YouTube!
Cauvery in digital author talk on Zoom, Perquot Library
11/07/2020
A live Meet the Author event with Cauvery Madhavan, author of The Tainted, interviewed on Zoom by her friend and fellow author, Dr. Rochelle Almeida.
Fictional Histories: Cauvery Madhavan and Kavita Jindal
31/05/2020
As part of the very first South Asian Literary Festival, Cauvery Madhavan and Kavita Jindal looked at how we can write history in fiction, what their process of researching and writing is, and how we can tackle the notion of authenticity and time in fiction.
Max Lobe at Afro Lit Sans Frontières festival, hosted by Zukiswa Wanner
27/05/2020
Max Lobe started by reading from his book Loin De Douala (A Long Way From Douala, coming from HopeRoad in February 2020) in French before inviting his host Zukiswa Wanner, and discussing sex, work, politics, and everything else that affected the work and the lives of the writer and his non-writerly life.
Missed it? You can catch up on the instagram live in these two videos, available on YouTube!
Vamba Sherif at Afro Lit Sans Frontières festival, hosted by hosted by Troy Onyango.
26/05/2020
Vamba read from his novel Land of my Fathers then spoke with his host Troy Onyango about historical fiction and how a title comes from concept to finished product. He also spoke about how being in the diaspora influenced his writing with reference to his exile from Liberia.
Early 2020 events
Jeremy Cameron at King's Lynn Fiction Festival
13-15 March 2020
The 32nd King's Lynn Fiction Festival kicked off in March as some of the most exciting, world class writers gathered for readings, events and interviews.
HopeRoad author Jeremy Cameron was be there on Sunday 14th March in conversation with Chris West, alongside fellow author Sophie Hannah.
A Match Made in Heaven at the Karachi Literature Festival
Saturday 29 February 2020, 11am–12 noon
The Karachi Literature Festival, the first and foremost celebration of literature in Pakistan, featured a book launch event on Saturday 29th February to celebrate the forthcoming publication of A Match Made in Heaven , edited by Claire Chambers, Nafhesa Ali and Richard Phillips. The book came out on 28th May 2020.