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Would you like to draw cartoons? or learn how to be a Phoenix Comic Book tickets now image 75illustrator? Come along to a Phoenix Comic workshops on Saturday 17th October and find out how. The workshops will take place in The Old Library in Dulwich College. Each workshop will have no more than 30 children sat at round tables. Pencils and paper are provided. Tickets are ?10 per workshop. Book online: www.dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk Workshop 1 9.30am ? 10.30am ? Garden Critters & Crazy Jitters cartoon workshop aimed at children 7 ? 9 years of age with Gary Northfield. Book a place here. Workshop 2 9.30am ? 10.30am ? Making Monster Mayhem cartoon workshop aimed at children 9 ? 12 years of age with Jamie Littler . Book a place here. Workshop 3 11am ? Noon ? Garden Critters & Crazy Jitters cartoon workshop aimed at children 9 ? 12 years of age with Gary Northfield. Book a place here. Workshop 4 11am ? Noon ? Making Monster Mayhem cartoon workshop aimed at children 7 ? 9 years of age with Jamie Littler. Book a place here. Tickets can be booked online: www.dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk via email: [email protected], via telephone: 020 8670 1920 or pop into Dulwich Books on Croxted Road SE21 8SW

Michael Smith talk/reading is built around the life of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his biography, Shackleton ? By Endurance We Conquer. Tickets are ?9.99 for entry & a paperback copy of Shackleton or ?6.00 for entry. (+booking fee). Book tickets online: www.dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk Sir Ernest Shackleton, who lived at Sydenham and went to Dulwich College, was among history?s great explorers and became a legend on four epic voyages of discovery to the Antarctic a century ago. Polar historian Michael Smith recalls the compelling story of a complex man who touched greatness on the ice but struggled to come to terms with home life. Shackleton marched to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1909 and the led the dramatic battle to survive against the odds when his ship, Endurance, was crushed by the ice exactly 100 years ago in 1915. Shackleton was a charismatic and inspirational figure who lived life ?like a mighty rushing wind? but was happiest in the icy wilderness where he could leave behind his messy private life. Michael Smith MickSmithMichael Smith is an authority on Polar exploration who has written nine books, appeared in TV and radio documentaries and lectured at many prestigious venues, including The Queen?s Gallery Buckingham Palace, Royal Geographical Society, National Museum of Ireland and Scott Polar Research Institute Cambridge. His latest book, Shackleton ? By Endurance We Conquer, is the first major biography of Shackleton for 30 years. Michael is a former award-winning journalist with The Guardian, The Observer and The Standard. Reviews of Shackleton ? By Endurance We Conquer As a buccaneering Edwardian adventurer, as hapless in his private life as he was dynamic in his public exploits, he is rescued by Smith?s genial study as a flawed, enduring inspiration ? The Times A rich volume, written in passionate, engaging style that makes it a compelling read, full of nuanced conclusions about many of Shackleton?s formative life moments, and meticulously researched ? The Irish Times Smith, in illuminating this unforgettable figure, brings his own considerable scholarship in the field to this story ? Wall Street Journal The Observer ? Listed among the best biographies of 2014 Tickets can be booked online: www.dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk via email: [email protected], via telephone: 020 8670 1920 or pop into Dulwich Books on Croxted Road SE21 8SW

Join us on Saturday 17th October for afternoon tea and hear Prue Leith talk about her novel, The Food Of Love. Tickets are ?15.00 for entry + signed hardback copy of The Food of Love & afternoon tea or ?8.00 entry & afternoon tea only. (plus booking fee). Book tickets: www.dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk A proud family. World War 2 is not yet over. Snubbed by aristocratic neighbour Book tickets now imageLord Frampton at a coming-of-age ball, Donald Oliver dreams of the day he?ll have his vengeance. A wild daughter. Laura Oliver, beautiful and tempestuous, falls in love with Giovanni, an Italian ex-prisoner-of-war, now a humble cook. Disdaining her father?s snobbishness ? and his wrath ? the couple flee to London. From Cotswolds farmland to London fish markets, society ballrooms to icy gutters, this is a tale of prejudice and ambition, power and passion, and one couple?s struggle to overcome all obstacles and carve out a life of their own. Tickets can be booked online: www.dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk via email: [email protected], via telephone: 020 8670 1920 or pop into Dulwich Books on Croxted Road SE21 8SW

Join Pushkin Children?s Books and storyteller Vanessa Woolf, as they invite us into the world of Tonke Dragt ‒ author of the international bestselling children?s classic The Letter for the King, and forthcoming pp_logosequel The Secrets of the Wild Wood. Tickets are ?5.00, (booking fee applies) bookable online: www.dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk via email: [email protected], via telephone: 020 8670 1920 or pop into Dulwich Books 6 Croxted Road, West Dulwich. Book tickets now image 75 The storytelling is perfect for any book lover aged between 7 & 12 and all children must be accompanied by an adult. Letter for the King new jacket With a return for Knight Tiuri and his trusty friends ? the much-loved characters from The Letter for the King ? we enter the Kingdom of Dagonaut once more and finally discover the mystery of the Black Knight with the Red Shield. With readings and activities taken from both books, this promises to be an epic adventure you won?t want to miss. Please bring a cushion or blanket to sit on. ?There is definitely some strange alchemy with these two books of Tonke Dragt ? She?s a writer that will now surely be ranked up there with the greats of children?s literature.? Mariella Frostrup, Presenter, R4 Open Book ?Sixteen-year-old Tiuri is set to be the next Harry Potter? Daily Mail ?A thrilling, page-turning tale of 16-year old Tiuri?s adventure?My 10- and 11- year old were both gripped? Daily Telegraph ?My daughter says it?s the best book she?s ever read? Cerys Matthews, Mail on Sunday The Secrets of the Wild Wood by Tonke Dragt, translated by Laura Watkinson is published by Pushkin Children?s Books on the 5th September, price ?16.99 in hardback. A new edition of the bestselling The Letter for the King will be released simultaneously, price ?7.99 pb vanessa woolf Vanessa Woolf is a professional storyteller whose clients include the Southbank Centre, Royal Academy of Arts, Historic Royal Palaces, The Society for Storytelling, National Geographic, the Unicorn Theatre, Harrods, and the National Literacy Trust as well as countless schools, nurseries, community organisations, museums and library services.

Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building, or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this fusion of science, history and personal memoir, writer David Adam talks to Adam Rutherford about the peculiar thoughts that exist within every mind, and how they drive millions of us towards obsessions and compulsions. Bringing together the latest research, historical cases and his own journey through 20 years of living with OCD, David gives a refreshingly honest view of the power of interfering thoughts whilst challenging our preconceptions of ?normality? and ?mental illness?. David?s critically acclaimed book, The Man Who Couldn?t Stop, has been shortlisted for the 2015 Royal Society Winton Book Prize. This event is being held in partnership with The Royal Society. Dr David Adam is a writer and editor at Nature, one of the world?s top scientific journals. Before that he was a specialist correspondent on the Guardian for seven years, writing on science, medicine and the environment. During this time he was named feature writer of the year by the Association of British Science Writers, and reported from Antarctica, the Arctic, China and the depths of the Amazon jungle. Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer, broadcaster and a former Editor at the journal Nature. He is presenter of Radio 4?s Inside Science programme and on television has presented documentaries including The Gene Code, award winning Horizon documentary Playing God and most recently, The Beauty of Anatomy on BBC 4. Alongside his broadcasting achievements, his first book Creation was nominated for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize. Attending this event Tickets are ?10 and include a paperback copy of The Man Who Couldn?t Stop Tickets can be booked online: www.dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk via email ([email protected]), telephone (020 8670 1920) or in person by visiting Dulwich Books, Croxted Road, SE21 8SW. Please note that tickets are non-refundable.

Join us on Sunday 18th October at 10.30am and hear Huw Edwards share with you his thoughts in a talk that combines themes including early Nonconformist congregations in London, some 18th centuryBook tickets now image London history and also some stuff on the BBC and the way the media covers religion. Tickets are ?15 which includes a signed paperback copy of City Mission or ?8.00 entry ticket.(plus booking fee). Book tickets: www.dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk The story of the Welsh in London spans a thousand years and in many ways is still largely untold. Broadcaster and journalist Huw Edwards says it is impossible to understand the history of the Welsh in London without appreciating the central place of organised religion. In City Mission, he traces an intriguing story of London?s Welsh chapels which spans several centuries. But his book is far more than a story of chapels and churches. It sheds light on the story of one of London?s first ethnic minorities ? the Welsh. Tickets can be booked online: www.dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk via email: [email protected], via telephone: 020 8670 1920 or pop into Dulwich Books on Croxted Road SE21 8SW

Join us on Sunday 18th October to hear Denis MacShane discuss the pros and cons of a Britain in Europe. Will Britain leave the EU? Following the Conservative victory in the 2015 General Election, the question of ?Brexit? ? a British exit from the EU ? is high on the political agenda. In this book, former Europe Minister Denis MacShane looks at the history of Britain?s fraught relationship with Europe and shows how the possibility of Brexit has become increasingly more likely. He looks at the key personalities who shaped Britain?s European policy ? from Churchill to Heath and Wilson to Thatcher, Blair and Cameron ? and the key issues of immigration and the economy which have heightened Eurosceptic feeling in the UK. Book tickets now image Tickets are ?10.00 (booking fee applies) and includes a copy of Brexit. Tickets can be booked online, via email: [email protected], via telephone: 020 8670 1920 or pop into Dulwich Books on Croxted Road SE21 8SW

Kate Mosse is an international bestselling author with sales of more than five million copies in 42 languages. Her fiction includes the novels Labyrinth, Sepulchre, The Winter Ghosts, and Citadel, as well as an acclaimed collection of short stories, The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales. Tickets are ?12.00 (plus booking fee) for entry + a paperback copy of The Taxidermist?s Daughter. Book tickets: www.dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk Kate?s latest novel, The Taxidermist?s Daughter is published in a small format paperback on 3rd September a copy itaxidermists daughters included in the price of your ticket. A Sussex churchyard. Villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will not survive the coming year are thought to walk. And in the shadows, a woman lies dead. As the flood waters rise, Connie Gifford is marooned in a decaying house with her increasingly tormented father. He drinks to escape the past, but an accident has robbed her of her most significant childhood memories. Until the disturbance at the church awakens fragments of those vanished years ? Kate will be in conversation with Emma Darwin. Emma?s debut The Mathematics of Love was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers? First Book award. Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction is published in 2016. She blogs at This Itch of Writing Tickets can be booked online: www.dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk via email: [email protected], via telephone: 020 8670 1920 or pop into Dulwich Books on Croxted Road SE21 8SW

Critically acclaimed author and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg will discuss his latest novel Now is the Time, a rich and compelling tale set in the heart of the Peasants? Revolt of 1381. Tickets are ?18.99 for entry + a signed hardback copy of Now Is The Time or entry only for ?10.00.(plus booking fee). www.dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk As a virulent plague grips England, Richard II?s counsellors bring news of growing resistance to his crippling new taxes. When the fourteen-year-old king sends armed commissioners to claim his money, the commoners revolt, throwing his sovereignty into serious jeopardy. Leaving his beloved family at home in Kent, Wat Tyler leads tens of thousands of rebels in an impassioned march on London. But Wat and his followers will soon learn that passion may not be enough to secure the outcome they desire. Wat will have to tread the precarious path of high politics and combat the stammering, vain boy-king Richard and his manipulative mother, Joan. Masterfully blending fact and fiction in a tale of power and justice, religion, loyalty and ethics, Melvyn Bragg brings alive the momentous episode in English history that saw our island?s first democratic uprising. Tickets can be booked online: www.dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk via email: [email protected], via telephone: 020 8670 1920 or pop into Dulwich Books on Croxted Road SE21 8SW

Helen Lederer is a well-known British comedian, actress and writer. Helen?s debut novel, Losing It, is written with the same wit, observational humour and bittersweet characterizations as her stand-up material. Hilariously funny, it focuses on a middle-aged woman who is divorced, in debt, over weight and so desperate to change her life that she agrees to be the front-woman for a new diet pill. Peter who has read Losing It says it?s desperately funny, desperately engaging, desperately readable and desperately adorable.? Tickets are ?12 (plus booking fee) and include a signed paperback copy of Losing It and wine! Tickets can be booked online: www.dulwichbooks.co.uk via email: [email protected], via telephone: 020 8670 1920 or pop into Dulwich Books on Croxted Road SE21 8SW Helen will open up the evening with a short stand up performance, talk about her book and then we?ll open up to questions and generally have a good old chat as friends.

Join us on Saturday 12th September when we welcome Emma Yarlett to host our regular storytelling at 11am. Poppy has the most extraordinary imagination. When she is sent upstairs to tidy her room, she just can?t help imagining and suddenly ?her imagination literally comes alive. Soon her room is jam-packed with all kinds of weird and wonderful creatures. There?s a problem, though ? the mammoth puts his foot through the floor and the hungry crocodile thinks Poppy would make a tasty snack. Poppy needs to get rid of all these creatures FAST ? but how? Storytelling begins at 11am, followed by colouring activities and then a book signing at 11.30. Dulwich Books 6 Croxted Road West Dulwich London SE21 8SW Email: [email protected] 020-8670-1920

Would you like to draw cartoons? or learn how to be a Phoenix Comic. Come along to a Phoenix Comic workshops on Saturday 17th October and find out how. The workshops will take place in The Old Library in Dulwich College. Each workshop will have no more than 30 children sat at round tables. Pencils and paper are provided. Tickets are ?10 per workshop. Workshop 1 9.30am ? 10.30am ? Garden Critters & Crazy Jitters cartoon workshop aimed at children 7 ? 9 years of age with Gary Northfield. Book a place here at http://dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk/ Workshop 2 9.30am ? 10.30am ? Making Monster Mayhem cartoon workshop aimed at children 9 ? 12 years of age with Jamie Littler . Book a place here at http://dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk/ Workshop 3 11am ? Noon ? Garden Critters & Crazy Jitters cartoon workshop aimed at children 9 ? 12 years of age with Gary Northfield. Book a place at http://dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk/ Workshop 4 11am ? Noon ? Making Monster Mayhem cartoon workshop aimed at children 7 ? 9 years of age with Jamie Littler. Book a place at http://dulwichliteraryfestival.co.uk/ Tickets can be booked online, via email: [email protected], via telephone: 020 8670 1920 or pop into Dulwich Books on Croxted Road SE21 8SW

Hear Prue Leith talk about her new novel The Food Of Love with afternoon tea on Saturday 17th October 4pm. Tickets are ?15.00 for entry + signed hardback copy of The Food of Love & afternoon tea or ?8.00 entry & afternoon only. (plus booking fee) A proud family. World War 2 is not yet over. Snubbed by aristocratic neighbour Lord Frampton at a coming-of-age ball, Donald Oliver dreams of the day he?ll have his vengeance. A wild daughter. Laura Oliver, beautiful and tempestuous, falls in love with Giovanni, an Italian ex-prisoner-of-war, now a humble cook. Disdaining her father?s snobbishness ? and his wrath ? the couple flee to London. From Cotswolds farmland to London fish markets, society ballrooms to icy gutters, this is a tale of prejudice and ambition, power and passion, and one couple?s struggle to overcome all obstacles and carve out a life of their own. Tickets can be booked online, via email: [email protected], via telephone: 020 8670 1920 or pop into Dulwich Books on Croxted Road SE21 8SW

Join us on Tuesday 15th September to hear Sebastian Faulks talk about his writing and his latest novel Where My Heart Used to Beat which will be published on 10 September 2015. Tickets are ?20 and include a copy of Where My Heart Used to Beat. Tickets can be booked online, via email: [email protected] via telephone: 020 8670 1920 or pop into Dulwich Books on Croxted Road. On a small island off the south coast of France,Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host, and antaWhere My Heartgonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does. The search for sanity takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally ? unforgettably ? back into the trenches of the Western Front. The recurring themes of Sebastian Faulks?s fiction are here brought together with a new stylistic brilliance as the novel casts a long, baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never fully understand. Daring, ambitious and in the end profoundly moving, this is Faulks?s most remarkable book yet. Sheila has read an advance copy of Where My Heart Used To Beat and absolutely loved it, she was blown away by it and is really looking forward to hearing Sebastian talk about it and his writing.

Join us on Tuesday 15th September at 7pm to hear Sebastian Faulks talk about his writing and his latest novel Where My Heart Used to Beat published on 10 September 2015. Tickets are ?20 and include a copy of Where My Heart Used To Beat and can be booked online: www.dulwichbooks.co.uk via email: [email protected] via telephone: 020 8670 1920 or pop into the bookshop at 6 Croxted Road, West Dulwich to secure your place at this event - book now tickets are selling fast! This event will take place in All Saints Church, Lovelace Road, West Dulwich SE21 8JY Sheila, owner of Dulwich Books, has read an advance copy of Where My Heart Used To Beat and absolutely loved it, she was blown away by it and is really looking forward to hearing Sebastian talk about it and his writing. On a small island off the south coast of France,Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host, and antaWhere My Heartgonist, is Alexander Pereira,a man whose time is running out, but who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does. The search for sanity takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally ? unforgettably ? back into the trenches of the Western Front. The recurring themes of Sebastian Faulks?s fiction are here brought together with a new stylistic brilliance as the novel casts a long, baleful light over the century we have left behind but may never fully understand. Daring, ambitious and in the end profoundly moving, this is Faulks?s most remarkable book yet.

Join us on Saturday 20th June at 11am when we host a special free storytime session with Joanne Gale, author of The Rare Monkey with the Colourful Bottom. With storytelling and fun activities this is a must for all book lovers of 6 and under. Tickets are free, however it will be busy, so book a seat today. Feel free to book a seat online: www.dulwichbooks.co.uk , via email: [email protected] , on the telephone 020 8670 1920 or pop into the bookshop. Dulwich Books 6 Croxted Road West Dulwich SE21 8SW

Join in the fun at our Bookstart Party this Thursday 11th June at 11am! We'll be celebrating children's picture books with stories, games and activities, and there will be a goody bag for the first 12 children. This is a free event suitable for ages 4 and under. Dulwich Books, 6 Croxted Road, West Dulwich, London SE21 8SW Tel: 020 8670 1920 email: [email protected] www.dulwichbooks.co.uk Storytime at Dulwich Books is every Thursday and Saturday at 11am, it's free and there's no need to book.

Come dressed as a dinosaur or come dressed as a policeman or just turn up and join us for our special storytelling event with the brilliant author and illustrator Sarah McIntyre. A fun time is promised for all and Sarah will show you how to draw your own cartoon dinosaur character! This event is perfect for anyone of 7 and under. Tickets are free, book your seat online: www.dulwichbooks.co.uk, via email: [email protected] on telephone: 020 8670 1920 or in person in the bookshop. Dinoville Police Station was having a perfectly quiet morning ? until the phone rang??Red alert!? hollered Sergeant Stig O?Saurus. ?There?s a rampaging T-Rex at the pizza factory!? The dino police hop in their vehicles and switch on their sirens faster thanBook tickets now image you can say ?WOO WOO!? They try to arrest Trevor T-Rex who is gobbling pizzas meant for the town fair, but Trevor manages to escape?The walkie-talkies are out, the air squad is being called in to help \- but Trevor is still on the loose?until the cheeky T-Rex runs through the building site and gets stuck in ?CEMENT! A fabulous new picture book by the fantastically talented, bestselling Sarah McIntyre!

The Spring Fair: Following the success of Love West Dulwich?s Christmas Fair, plans for the Love West Dulwich Spring Fair are in full swing. The Love West Dulwich Spring Fair - run in association with Dulwich Festival - will take place on Parkhall Road, Croxted Road and Rosendale Road in West Dulwich and promises to be a wonderful day for all the family. Across West Dulwich there will be: ?Petting zoo with the Vauxhall City Farm. ?Vintage fun fair. ?Arts and crafts Market. ?Street food market and craft beer stall. ?Maypole dancing workshops and performance. ?Find Shaun the Sheep activities. ?Entertainment tent, including: Dulwich Prep London Big Band, Oakfield Preparatory School Choir, Popchoir, and South London Youth Theatre. ?Children?s activity tent, including: Storytelling, drama workshops, collage and t-shirt design. ?Floral Hall flower stall. ?Swing dance taster class with Swing Patrol West Dulwich. ?Children?s street dancing with GDND Academy. ?Street entertainment from Dulwich Wood Primary School steel Pan Band and Hey Zeus. ?Fire engine on Rosendale Road ?Theatre with Freedom Academy ?Local charities, including: The Dulwich Helpline, Athol House, L?Arche, Food Bank and Evelina. In addition to this many local businesses will be running unique family friendly events, experiences and promotions throughout the day, including: ?Alleyn Park Garden Centre: Demonstrations/workshops on ?how to prune a tree? and ?making your own gardeners? hand cream?, plus a beekeeping information stand. ?Belmont Dry Cleaners: 50% off all repairs and alterations brought in on the day (Terms and conditions apply, call 0208 670 7607 for details). ?Changes Hair Solon: Will be offering ?Street hair,? haircuts outside in the sunshine. ?Dulwich Books: Storytelling with Minnie the Clown and activities from the Farmfest Children?s area, as well as a book signing from Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, authors of The Girls Who Went to War. ?Dulwich Trader: Flower pot decorating and furniture painting workshop. ?Gareth James Estate Agents: Running a children?s art competition. ?Gastronomia Deli: Serving speciality Italian deli cured meats, cheese, chock and Vino. ?Indigo: Serving Indian Street food. ?Jaadu: Workshops on how to wear a Sari and mehndi hand decorating. ?Jo Partridge: Serving glasses of prosecco and giving away goodie bags as well as balloons and lollipops. ?Oddbins: Serving summer cocktails. ?Polished: Offering Free mini manicures with every luxury pedi booked and lucky dip with every product purchase. ?Tea West: Buy one coffee get one half price. ?Thomas Schoolwear: 10% discount on all purchases of cricket gear with the chance to win a cricket bat signed by members of the England cricket team. ?Scotch Meats: Serving pulled pork baps. ?Wigwam Toyshop: Hosting children?s games and face painting. About ?Love West Dulwich?: ?Love West Dulwich? is an alliance of West Dulwich businesses and residents working together in order to put West Dulwich on the map, enticing those that live, work and school locally to stay in West Dulwich and those that live further afield to make the journey and enjoy the area and the wealth of fantastic local award winning businesses on offer. For more information visit: www.Facebook.com/LoveWestDulwich

On Saturday 16th May between 10am and 3pm Shaun the Sheep will be hiding in 10 shops in the West Dulwich area. Find 8 of those sheep and you can enter a prize draw to win a goodie bag of Shaun the Sheep books. There?ll be 20 runner up prizes. Call into Dulwich Books, pick up your entry form, find Shaun in the shops and drop back your completed form to Dulwich Books to enter the draw. The draw will take place at 4pm in the Children?s Tent of the Love West Dulwich Fair. This is a free event and takes place within the Love Dulwich Fair from 10am to 5pm on Saturday 16th May

Here at Dulwich Books we always try and have a great week packed full of events for Independent Bookshop Week and this year is no exception! Tuesday 23rd June 7pm - Meet the Authors: Summer Pimms Party An evening of Pimms and new authors showcasing the best new talent from Weidenfeld & Nicholson, the publisher that brought us the likes of Kate Mosse, Gillian Flynn, Vikram Seth & Ian Rankin, we will introduce: Laura Barnett, Catriona Ward, Colin MacIntyre and Antonia Honeywell. Tickets ?10 including Pimms and canap?s. Wednesday 24th June 7pm ? ?Nightwalking? with Matthew Beaumont We?ve all traversed London at night, giving us a little glimpse into the nocturnal world of a city that never truly sleeps. ?Nightwalking? offers a unique insight into the London of the shadows and the dark, and the people that have walked those streets throughout history including Dickens, Chaucer, Blake, and Shakespeare. Tickets are ?5 redeemable against copies of ?Nightwalking.? Thursday 25th June 7pm ? Patrick Gale and Sarah Winman Join us for an evening with bestselling authors Patrick Gale and Sarah Winman who will be discussing their latest novels ?A Place Called Winter? and ?A Year of Marvellous Ways.? Tickets are ?5 and redeemable against ?A Place Called Winter? and ?A Year of Marvellous Ways.? Dulwich Books are one of over 330 bookshops around the country which has signed up to take part in the Independent Bookshops Week, organised by the Booksellers Association (BA), the national trade association for booksellers. The week is designed to showcase how the ?indies? provide a distinctive, personal service for book lovers and the unique role they play in their communities. You can find out more here: www.indiebookshopweek.com Tickets for all of the events are available from Dulwich Books by phone on 02086701920, in-person, or online at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/dulwich-books-1098418481. Dulwich Books, 6 Croxted Road, West Dulwich, London, SE21 8SW 02086701920 [email protected] www.dulwichbooks.co.uk www.facebook.com/DulwichBooks Twitter: @DulwichBooks

Running from 28th April to 6th June, ?Opulent Curves? an exhibition of paintings by Philip Maltman is at Dulwich Village?s contemporary Art Space, The Jane Newbery Gallery. Maltman?s fluid abstraction relates to texts and to the natural world. Philip Maltman has lived and worked in Dulwich for 40 years; he is a painter and part-time senior bookseller at Dulwich Books in West Dulwich. Jane Newbery Gallery, 33 Dulwich Village, London SE21 7BN 020 8693 2634 http://www.philipmaltman.com/

Throughout the Love West Dulwich Spring Fair on Saturday 16th May the will be a number of family friendly events, including: ?Petting zoo with the Vauxhall City Farm. ?Vintage fun fair. ?Find Shaun the Sheep activities. Entertainment tent, including: Dulwich Prep London Big Band, Popchoir, and South London Youth Theatre. ?Children?s activity tent, including: Storytelling, drama workshops, collage and t-shirt design. ?Children?s street dancing with GDND Academy. ?Fire engine on Rosendale Road ?In Dulwich Books there will be storytelling with Minnie the Clown and activities from the Farmfest Children?s area. ?Wigwam Toyshop will be hosting children?s games and face painting. The Love West Dulwich Spring Fair - run in association with Dulwich Festival - will take place on Parkhall Road, Croxted Road and Rosendale Road in West Dulwich and promises to be a wonderful day for all the family. For more information please visit https://www.facebook.com/events/825905887502657/.

On Thursday 18th June Dulwich Books is honoured to host an event with David Mitchell. Storyteller extraordinaire, twice shortlisted and once longlisted for the Booker prize. He writes literary, audaciously structured and fantastical novels with a flair and wit that makes them a joy to read. This is your opportunity to meet the bestselling author of ?Cloud Atlas? and ?The Bone Clocks? in an intimate and laid back event. His latest novel, ?The Bone Clocks,? was longlisted for the 2014 Booker Prize and is an epic sweep of a book, starting in 1984 and ending in 2043, weaving in and out of the life of Holly Sykes, shot through with magical threads, literary establishment nods, and a healthy dose of villainy. At the event David will be interviewed by arts journalist and author Laura Barnett whose forthcoming novel ?Versions of Us? is hotly tipped as one of this year?s breakthrough debut novels. Tickets are ?10 and include a paperback copy of ?The Bone Clocks,? drinks & canap?s, bookable from https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-mitchell-tickets-16167564621, by phone on 02086701920 or in person from Dulwich Books on 6 Croxted Road. Dulwich Books, 6 Croxted Road, West Dulwich, London, SE21 8SW 02086701920 [email protected] www.dulwichbooks.co.uk www.facebook.com/DulwichBooks Twitter: @DulwichBooks

Come along on Saturday 16th May between 12.30pm & 1.30pm to meet and chat with Duncan and Nuala and celebrate publication of their new book, ?The Girls Who Went to War.? Duncan & Nuala will sign copies of their book. This is a free event. This is the personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940. In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while the Germans had three times that many, and a population almost twice the size of ours from which to draw new waves of soldiers. Clearly, in the fight against Hitler, manpower alone wasn?t going to be enough. Eighteen-year-old Jessie Ward defied her mother to join the ATS, Margery Pott signed up for the Women?s Auxiliary Air Force, and nanny Kathleen Skin the WRNS. They left quiet homes for the rigours of training, the camaraderie of the young women who worked together so closely and to face a war that would change their lives for ever. Overall, more than half a million women served in the armed forces during the Second World War. This book tells the story of just three of them ? one from the Army, one from the Navy and one from the Air Force. But in their stories are reflected the lives of hundreds of thousands of others like them ? ordinary girls who went to war, wearing their uniforms with pride. Dulwich Books, 6 Croxted Road, West Dulwich, London, SE21 8SW 02086701920 [email protected] www.dulwichbooks.co.uk www.facebook.com/DulwichBooks Twitter: @DulwichBooks