Glasgow ‘Aye Write’ Festival

Glasgow ‘Aye Write’ Festival

After 15 years of existence, ‘Aye Write’ is now firmly established amongst the best book festivals in Britain. Glasgow City Council organises the event and my slot is in the fabulous municipally owned Glasgow Concert Hall. I’m interviewed by Brian Meighan, a BBC...
York Literature Festival

York Literature Festival

It’s five years since I appeared at St Peters school as part of the York Literary Festival to discuss my childhood memoir, ‘This Boy’. Today, three books on, I’m back to be interviewed, once again, by Elly Fiorentini. It’s a wonderful piece of continuity. Elly and I...
Maidenhead

Maidenhead

The event at the Norden Farm Arts Centre in Maidenhead feels like a home gig. As readers of ‘Please,Mister Postman’ will know I spent 19 years as a postman living on the Britwell Estate in Slough just up the road. There were old friends from those days in the...
Southampton

Southampton

Back to the ‘An Evening With….’ theatre tour with regular compare Andrew Wilson. These differ from literary festival gigs in that they last for longer with an interval half way through and Andrew is an ‘act’ in himself joking and quipping his way through two...
Keswick

Keswick

Is there a more beautiful setting for a book festival than Keswick? Not in my experience there isn’t. This year there is snow on the mountains glimpsed from the gaps between the houses of this lovely market town beside Lake Derwent. I’m in the main theatre right next...