Please come and see us. Better still, come and see our authors. We've got a lot of great events coming up in that London and we'd love to see as many of you there as we possibly can.



First of all, we have the launch of Francis Plug - How To Be A Public Author by Paul Ewen. This is taking place in Waterstones Piccadilly at 7pm on 26th September. Head for the fourth floor and look out for the black covers…



I'm guessing since you're on this site you've already seen me swinging from the chandeliers, making mad semaphore signals with my free arm and screaming like an opera diva about how much I love this book. Just in case you don't know anything about it, please do read its first big and wholly joyous press review from the Express. "Twisted genius". Oh yes!

If that isn't inducement enough, I might also add that Paul Ewen is a lovely man. And there will be wine. The only catch is that you need to let us know if you're coming so we can keep an eye on numbers - drop an email to info@galleybeggar.co.uk



Second, the splendid people at Waterstones have also organised a night for Jonathan Gibbs and Randall. This will happen on 1st October at 7pm. It's going to be fascinating. It's an evening entitled "Make it: Sell it - Portrait of the Artist (A Satire)" with Jonathan Gibbs

. Here's the blurb:



Damien Hirst – who’s he? This evening author Jonathan Gibbs leads us back, kicking and screaming, into an alternative history of 90s London and the Young British Artists in the company of Randall: lumbering ape, genius provocateur and the powerhouse artistic force behind the scene that never quite was. Reading from Randall (“the sort of novel you pray for as a reviewer” – Tibor Fischer, The Guardian), and in discussion with curator and art critic Tom Morton (contributing editor to Frieze), Jonathan will dissect, spill and re-stitch the YBAs, contemporary art and late-capitalist culture. “Conceptual art,” says Randall, “is just art you don’t have to see to get.”

Come along and get it, too.


This event is free too, but please reserve your place by email: piccadilly@waterstones.com


Again, I've talked about Randall a great deal - so let me again refer you to its most recent review. This one is in the New Humanist and it's by Lee Rourke, who says it is:

"An extremely funny satire of the dirty business of art curation, archiving, buying and selling [… that] slowly reveals itself as a moving account of friendship, love and loss, coupled with the desire to sift the authentic from the inauthentic. This clever and accomplished transition is relayed in Gibbs’ charming voice, rich in depth and confidence and as knowingly precise as the deftest of brush strokes."

(That review isn't available online yet. Rest assured we're going to link the hell out of it when it is.)



Thirdly, keep the night of 14 October free and come to our alternative Booker party in Brick Lane Bookshop. Both Paul and Jonathan will be there and oh boy… More details soon.

Oh and look what just arrived in Galley Beggar Towers: