More Events

Another online talk for the Viktor Wynd Cabinet of Curiosities has been arranged for the evening of Thursday 9 October. The subject will be Decadent London, a profile of the city in the 1890s.

More details and booking here

The Whistler walk for the Sohemian Society on Sunday 8 June has sold out.

Copies of my latest book Mansion of Gloom: The Unsettling Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher can be purchased here.

Further events to promote the book are in the pipeline.

Upcoming gigs:

Jazz Hastings at East Hastings Sea Angling Association: Byron Wallen's Four Corners (great musicians including brilliant Rob Luft on guitar and Rod Youngs on drums. See here

I was intending to see Throwing Muses in Hastings last night but the gig has been rescheduled owing to Kristin Hersh losing here voice. See here

Lost Crowns at Alphabet Brighton see here

Decadent London Walk

25/07/17  When I checked Eventbrite this morning the walk was fully booked - however I added 10 more places, so if you hurry you may be lucky.

I'll be leading a walk around 'Decadent London' on Saturday 26th August.  It starts at 3.00pm from Westminster Reference Library, St Martin's Street (Street not Lane), London, WC2 and will explore the area around Leicester Square, St James's and Piccadilly.  It's FREE.  It will end at a pub of course.

Bookings are through Eventbrite here.  I see that people have been booking already.  To avoid confusion, the theme is based on my book of the same name, which focusses on the 1890s in London and the writers, poets and artists living there at that time - it won't be a general tour of debauchery through the ages (you may be disappointed to read).  So expect to hear about the haunts of Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Aubrey Beardsley, Aleister Crowley etc.

I'll try to bring along a few books to sell, including perhaps my next book which may be out by then.

I should add that the talk for the Friends of Lincoln's Inn Fields went very well and the opportunity to dine and drink afterwards al fresco in the heart of Lincoln's Inn was much appreciated.