Events in libraries
Meet The Author - Suzanne Bugler
Join us for a series of talks with local author Suzanne Bugler about her stunning adult debut This Perfect World.
Suzanne Bugler lives in South-West London with her husband and two sons. She has also written two novels for young adults: Staring up at the Sun and Meet Me at the Boathouse.
Thursday 18 March 1pm Ham Library
Thursday 25 March 6.30pm Richmond Library
Tuesday 6 April 3pm Castelnau Library
Wednesday 28 April 6.30pm Whitton Library
This is a free event. All welcome. Refreshments will be served.
Places are limited so please book via your local library, ring 020 8912 0653 or book online
Meet The Author - Jeffrey Lewis
Adam the King forms a part of Jeffrey Lewis’s Meritocracy Quartet, a sequence of four books that span four decades of American history. Echoing F Scott Fitzgerald, Lewis examines the inner world of the WASP aristocracy: ‘their studied vagueness, their heartiness, the aloofness that cannot be copied.’ (Los Angeles Times). Set in the money-mad ‘90s, Adam the King depicts the fallout from deepening class and social divisions in a voice that is ‘pitch-perfect… quirky, rueful and wise’ (Kirkus Reviews). The novel won the Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Literary Fiction in 2009, as well as the ForeWord Magazine Silver Award for Fiction in 2008. Lewis has received a string of other awards for his writing, including the Independent Publishers Award for General Fiction for his first novel in the Meritocracy Quartet, Meritocracy: A Love Story in 2004, and two Emmys and the Writer’s Guild Award for his work as a writer and producer on Hill Street Blues.
Jeffrey Lewis was born in New York, educated at Yale and now lives in Los Angeles and Castine, Maine. Adam the King is his fourth novel, following Meritocracy: A Love Story, The Conference of the Birds, and Theme Song for an Old Show.
Wednesday 24 March - 6.30pm Twickenham Library
This is a free event. All welcome. Refreshments will be served.
Places are limited so please book via your local library, ring 020 8892 8091 or book online
Dry Felt Making
Free Informal Adult Learning Workshop by Orleans House Gallery
Now you can learn the fascinating art of felt making with artist Laura Service and create your own stunning piece!
This workshop is suitable for absolute beginners who want to understand the process of turning wool into felt. Find out where to source more materials to develop your talent and creativity. No experience needed.
Wednesday 24 March 1pm-3pm Twickenham Library
This is free event. Adults welcome
Places are limited so please book via your local library, or use our Online Booking
Meet the Author - Neil Kirby
Go behind the scenes with stars and staff at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. Join us for an evening of true inside gossip, scandal and intrigue.
In Celebrity Hotel, Neil Kirby, a former General Manager of the Grosvenor, looks back at his extraordinary rise from below-the stairs washer-up to bespoke-suited manager and, in doing so, lifts the lid on this formidable institution. What emerges is an entertaining, highly amusing portrait of two contrasting worlds – the ‘below stairs’ world of the hundreds of pageboys, chambermaids, valets and porters who keep the hotel’s cogs turning and the exclusive, ‘above stairs’ one of the wellheeled, spoilt and super-rich. In 2005 Neil bought his own multimillion pound hotel in Eastbourne.
Tuesday 20 April 6:30pm Richmond Library
This is a free event. Refreshments will be served.
Places are limited so please book via your local library, ring 020 8940 0981 or book online.
Meet The Author - R.J. Ellory
R.J. Ellory has been called "one of crime fiction's new stars" by the Sunday Telegraph. He began his first novel in 1987 and did not stop until 1993. During this time he completed twenty-two novels, most of them in longhand, and accumulated several hundred polite and complimentary rejection letters.
Roger stopped writing out of sheer frustration and did not start again for eight years. Now he is the author of seven previous novels including the bestselling A Quiet Belief in Angels, which was a Richard & Judy Book Club selection in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Barry Award, the 813 Trophy, the Quebec Booksellers’ Prize and was winner of the Nouvel Observateur Crime Fiction Prize. His work has been translated into twenty-three languages.
Thursday 27 May - 7pm Hampton Library
Tickets: £2.50 Refreshments included. Booking is essential. Please book via your local library, ring 020 8979 5110 or book online.
Signed books will be available to purchase.
Effie From Ruskin’s Wife to Millais’s Muse - A Victorian Scandal
The wife who repelled Ruskin, sought an annulment from their marriage and then became the much painted wife of Millais… this is the true story of Euphemia Chalmers Ruskin, also known as Effie.
A talk with Merryn Williams who read English at Cambridge and obtained her doctorate for her work on Thomas Hardy. An English lecturer for the Open University for twenty years, she is now editor of The Interpreter’s House. She has published three volumes of poetry and was winner of the Second Light Network Poetry Competition 2003.
Thursday 10 June 6.30 – 7.30pm Richmond Library
This is a free event but places are limited so booking is essential.
Please book via your local library,ring 020 8940 0981 or Book Online. Refreshments will be served.
Wednesday 30 June 1pm to 2pm Teddington Library. This is a free event but places are limited so booking is essential. Please book via your local library, ring 020 8977 1284 or Book Online.
We regret that we cannot exchange, refund or transfer tickets unless the event in question has been cancelled or rescheduled.
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Children's events
For details of other library events for children and teens, please see the Young People's Library Service news and events page.
Storytime
All libraries hold a storytime for the under-5s once a week; see the Storytime page for details.
Tiny Teddies
Most libraries also hold monthly bounce and rhyme sessions for pre-school children, called Tiny Teddies. These sessions are great fun and include songs, rhyme and stories. All these activities are free of charge.