Well we seem to be doing everything a bit last minute this year. But quite often they turn out to be the best sort of events. The full festival line-up is over on our co-host Review Bookshop’s website. So far we have two confirmed events. Monday 19th November: It’s all about new food writing at…
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The Peckham Literary Festival 2011
Our little festival is now in its fifth year, a fact of which we are justifiably proud. Was a time when saying Peckham and Literary in the same sentence produced sniggers. Not any more. This year we’ve got a cracking line-up, if a mixed one. We’ve detailed our own Persepolis events below, but you can…
Tall Tales: all too short an evening
What spiffing fun we are having with the PLF this year. Last night’s Tall Tales evening at Persepolis was side-splittingly, knicker-wettingly funny. Don’t think the shop has ever been so packed full of talent. You can read a full and jolly nice review about it here. It’s standing room only at tomorrow’s Book Swap -…
Peckham Haikus!
And here they are (in no particular order): the three winning entries from our Peckham Haiku competition. The standards were surprisingly impressively high. We were pleased to note the amount of Peckham Love out there. From Sue Amos: steam frothed air belches sending salty smells outward chicken bone crunches And from Gillie Robic: …we love…
On Peckham High Street
That nice Mr. Elms from BBC Radio London has been in touch again. This time it was with reference to Peckham High Street and the history thereof. The inimitable John D. Beazley provides the real history, but you can hear us wittering on about how much we love the place here. Fast forward to about…