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A John Harvey/Charlie Resnick Newsletter
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Just back from a few glorious days at the International Book Festival in St. Malo (great food, good audiences, too little sleep and too much wine) to discover that the event at the Lowdham Book Festival near Nottingham on Sunday 15th June, at which I'm reading with the jazz quartet Second Nature (and which, this year, is dedicated to the celebration of food) has sold out.
So, if you happen to live in a thirty mile or so radius of Nottingham and were planning to go along, but haven't snagged a ticket, change your plans. And hold on, maybe, till Saturday October 18th when Second Nature and I are brightening up the Derby Literature Festival.
Thirty miles north of London, or thereabouts, is Welwyn Jazz Club, where on Sunday 22nd June, I'm doing a guest spot with Second Nature at one of their gigs. Details on the web site, www.mellotone.co.uk - then, further west (considerably further) at the Ludlow Festival Literary Weekend (28th, 29th June) I'm doing a poetry reading on the Saturday afternoon and talking about crime fiction on Sunday afternoon with Mark Billingham, Stephen Booth, Natasha Cooper and Laura Wilson. Again, details on the web site.
Crime Scene 2003 is at the National Film Theatre in London and on Saturday 12th July I'm in conversation in NFT1 with the fine American writer, Walter Mosley. And on the previous afternoon, as part of the same event, I shall be doing my best to ask interesting questions to Mark Billingham, Stella Duffy, Paul Johnston and Martyn Waites.
Not yet on the web site (unless my dauntless web master reads minds - something which would not altogether surprise me) I'm doing a reading on Saturday 26th July at the Poetry Cafˆ© in Betterton Street, Covent Garden. A bunch of others will be reading as well and the real cause for celebration is that Liz Simcock will be singing. If you haven't heard Liz sing, you've missed a treat - acoustic singer-songwriter stuff doesn't get much better than this - and if you haven't bought her CD yet, you owe it to yourself to do so. Details about Liz and the CD are available on her web site which you can link to from the links section on mine. Details of the Poetry Cafˆ© gig, which starts around 8.00, from Hylda Sims on 020 8299 2767.
And that's all for now.
Enjoy summer!
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