June 25 3.30 – 4.30 Lowdham Book Festival. Free event in Marquee 2 with Karen Campbell and Danuta Reah. More here

July 28th Nottingham, Walk Cafe Book Club 6.30 for 7 More here

August 28th Edinburgh Book Festival. 5.30- 6.15 Amnesty International free reading of poems by Mahmoud Darwish. 6.45 – 7.45 reading and talk with Christopher Wallace. ‘New Labour? You couldn’t make it up.’ Book here.

October 7th 8-9pm Writers UK conference. County Hall, Nottingham. Free. Talk with Q & A. ‘Breaking Bone & Cane’.

October 8th 3pm Birmingham States Of Indepence Book Fair panel. Free. More info at http://www.birminghambookfestival.org/states-of-independence-west-1513/