Readings Event I: Adam Mars-Jones, Evie Wyld, Natalie Young, Zoe Pilger, 16 June, Peckham Pelican

[Literary Kitchen]

What a delight to kick off the inaugural Literary Kitchen Festival with some of the UK?s hottest literary talents ...and they?re all local. Adam Mars-Jones, Evie Wyld, Natalie Young and Zoe Pilger. Doors open 7pm; readings kick-off at 8pm sharp.

The author's novels will be available to buy. Please bring cash.

Tickets for th event can be booked here: bit.ly/SfwSoo

AUTHOR DETAILS:

Adam Mars-Jones was selected not once, but twice, for Granta's Best Young British Novelists in 1983 and 1993. His novels include Pilcrow and Cedilla. He'll be reading from Pilcrow, volume 1 of his trilogy.

Evie Wyld is the author of two novels, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice and All the Birds, Singing. In 2013 she was named as one of Granta?s Best of Young British Novelists. She runs Review bookshop in Peckham.

Eat My Heart Out, Zoe?s ?fresh, provocative and outrageous? (Red Magazine) debut novel was published by Serpent?s Tail in 2014. Zoe is an art critic for The Independent and winner of the 2011 Frieze International Writer?s Prize. She has appeared on BBC Four?s The Review Show, Channel 4′s Sunday Brunch, and Sky News. She is currently completing a PhD, on romantic love and sadomasochism in the work of contemporary female artists and writers, at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she has taught socila and political theory. She graduated with a BA from Cambridge University in 2007 and an MA from from Goldsmiths in 2010. Zoe grew up in London where she still lives.

Natalie Young?s second novel, Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband, published in January 2014 by Tinder Press at Hodder Headline, was feted in The Times as ?a terrific novel ? a brilliant and literal dissection of a marriage?, and described by Deborah as ?a feast of anger ? witty and poised?. Natalie will be talking about Season to Taste, which will be published by Little Brown in the US in July, at the Edinburgh Festival in August.

Natalie?s first novel, We All Into the Sunlight, was published by Short Books in 2011. Natalie also writes short stories and poetry and has published articles and reviews in The Times, The Sunday Times, Mslexia, and Prospect where she was for a short while the Arts and Books Editor. She is a member of PEN and The Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London.