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Boroughs > Ealing
Events
 Metrowords
: Ealing is
one of the six boroughs taking part in the Metrowords Literature
Festival (16 April - 31 May 2007). For full listings, please visit Eggmeg,
where you can also book online.
Events include:
- Thursday 19 April, 7pm, Acton
Library (part of the Books on Broadway series)
Mike Carey
Mike Carey will be discussing his work, including the acclaimed
comics Lucifer and Hellblazer, and his recent series
of thrillers set in contemporary London. His third Felix Castor
novel, Dead Men's Boots, will be published in 2007. He has also
written storylines for X-Men, adapted Neil Gaiman's acclaimed
Neverwhere into comics. His original screenplay Frost Flowers is
currently being filmed.
Tickets £4 from Acton Library 020 8752 0999. Under 18’s FREE -
please phone to book.
- Tuesday 8 May, 7pm, Hanwell Library (part of the Books
on Broadway series)
Veronica Heley: Almost everything you need to know to write
fiction
Find out how to write that novel from a writer of over 50
books including crime fiction, non-fiction, children’s books and
historical fiction. Veronica
Heley, an Ealing resident, is also the author of the Ellie
Quicke Mysteries and the Eden Hall romance-suspense series.
Tickets £4 from Hanwell Library
- Thursday 10 May, 7pm, Acton Library (part of the Books
on Broadway series)
Amanda Brookfield
Bestselling author of the Simple Rules of Love and 11
other novels including Alice Alone, Marriage Games, Sisters
and Husbands and Relative Love.
Tickets £4 from Acton Library 020 8752 0999.
Other events in the Books on Broadway tour:
- Tuesday 19 June, 7pm, Hanwell Library
Pauline Rowson -Murder, Mayhem and Marine Mysteries
Pauline Rowson talks about her popular series of crime novels
After Tide of Death and In Cold Daylight were
published in 2006, reviewers began to describe Pauline Rowson as
the "Queen of the Marine Mystery", and "the crime
writer to watch". Her third marine mystery, In For the
Kill, is a thriller set on the Isle of Wight and the south
coast.
Tickets £4 from Hanwell Library 020 8567 5041
- Wednesday 27 June, 7pm, Acton Library
Mary Lawson
Author of Crow Lake and The Other Side of the Bridge,
both set in Northern Canada, the landscape of Mary Lawson's
childhood. She will be reading from both books and discussing the
inspiration for the two stories, the themes they explore and where
the fiction touches reality.
Tickets £4 from Acton Library
- Poetry - Rainbow Recital Poetry
group
A Sussex-based poetry group welcomes new members to read and
discuss poetry.
Hanwell Library at 4pm on the following dates:
1st May May Day Festivals
8th May Make Hay in May
5th June Parks and Gardens
12th June Midsummer Days
3rd July Games on Grass
10th July Rivers and Regattas
7th August English and French Resorts
14th August The Caribbean
All events in this series are free
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