A little more info for those coming to Litro Live at Foyles this Thursday, from the Litro website.

Doors are from 6, first reading’s at 7, I’m probably on at 9…  Hope to see you there!

“Litro Live! Thursday July 9th, 6-10pm, returns to its monthly residency at Ray’s Jazz Cafe, Foyles Charing Cross Road, to bring you an evening of live storytelling and music…

On Thursday 9th July, from 6pm to 10pm, Litro Live! returns to Rays Jazz Cafe Foyles, with its usual mix of Live story telling and music sets… Acts confirmed include….

Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal, Granta Books,
New Zealands leading new award winning female writer, reads from The Rehearsal

Ali Shaw, The Girl with Glass Feet, Atlantic Books
‘Ali Shaw has written a rare orchid of a book, beautiful and eccentric..’ Patrick Ness

Patrick Neate, Jerusalem, Fig Tree / Penguin
One of the Founders of Bookslam, and teller of jokes like; ” two fish in a tank., one says to the other, ‘can you drive this thing’?

Patrick will be telling jokes like these and hopefully reading from his latest novel ‘Jerusalem’, plus music from: Benji XIII (precocious nu-folk talent), Alice Mclaughlin (queen of thinking pop), and Off Ground Touch (Stoke Newington’s Beach Boys) as well as some soulful sounds from Madeleine Hart.”