London Quarterly #2



Date & time

Tuesday 16 June, 7pm

Venue

The Forge
3-7 Delancey Street
London NW1 7NL

Phone: 020 7383 7808
Nearest tube: Camden Town, Mornington Crescent

Tickets

£8 advance / £10 on the door
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Partners

Helen Macdonald + Rachel Lichtenstein + May-Lan Tan + Tim Clare

Helen Macdonald, author of the best-selling H is for Hawk, headlines the second London Quarterly: the capital’s newest literary salon. Join independent literary producers Penned in the Margins in the beautiful surroundings of The Forge in Camden Town for what they’re dubbing ‘a live version of your favourite literary journal’. Joining Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Helen Macdonald on the bill are: artist and historian Rachel Lichtenstein (Diamond Street); Guardian First Book Award-nominated short story writer May-Lan Tan; and Tim Clare, stand-up poet and author of the hotly-tipped novel The Honours.

Books will be available courtesy of Waterstones Camden.

Limited capacity. Please book early.

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Biographies

Helen Macdonald is a poet, writer and naturalist, whose 2014 book H is for Hawk (Jonathan Cape) won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Costa Prize, and is a Sunday Times best-seller. H is for Hawk describes the year Macdonald spent training a goshawk after her father’s death and has been described as ‘a soaring triumph’ by The Telegraph.

Rachel Lichtenstein‘s books include Rodinsky’s Room (1999, with Iain Sinclair) and On Brick Lane (2007). A writer, artist and archivist with a commitment to exploring the unknown corners of social history, Rachel is the author of Diamond Street: The Hidden History of Hatton Garden (Hamish Hamilton, 2012).

May-Lan Tan grew up in Hong Kong, where her family had migrated from Indonesia. She lived in Northern California before moving to London to study art at Goldsmiths. Her debut collection of short stories Things to Make and Break (CB Editions, 2014) is on the shortlist for the Guardian First Book Award and has been praised for its ‘dazzling ventriloquial skill’ by the TLS.

Tim Clare is a poet, author and musician. In 2005 he presented the Channel 4 series How to Get a Book Deal. His book We Can’t All Be Astronauts won best biography/memoir at the East Anglian Book Awards. A performer who’s appeared all over the world both solo and as member of the poetry collective Aisle 16, his stand-up poetry shows include Death Drive and How to Be A Leader. His fiction debut, The Honours, came out in April from Canongate and was dubbed ‘at once fantastical and absorbingly real’ by The List.

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