{"title": "Andrew Davies in conversation with Hadley Freeman", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Daunt Books Notting Hill", "address": "", "price": "£6.00", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "https://dauntbooks.co.uk/category/gifts/book-bundles/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/memoir"], "description": "An intimate evening conversation at a bookshop with the screenwriter and novelist Andrew Davies about his new memoir, An Unsuitable Boy: A Life in Scripts. He will be joined in conversation by author and journalist Hadley Freeman, formerly of The Guardian and now a staff writer at The Sunday Times. The memoir weaves together wit, irreverence and vulnerability, reflecting on a life of writing, adapting and collaborating, from post-war Cardiff to the BBC boardroom. 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His stories move from the Balkans to the moon and beyond, finding the extraordinary in apparently ordinary lives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-man-with-many-names-georgi-gospodinov-in-conversation-wi-41632/", "official_url": "https://libreria.io/the-man-with-many-names-georgi-gospodinov-in-conversation-with-lea-ypi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db505f2fb83627b8835a7ff4b03ec3fa891a0ff2e1eff0dabca78a8bdec1ca61-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Rediscovering the Rosary: CTS book launch & podcast (live recording of Into the Truth with Alexander Gray Muir)", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Saint Bede's Church", "address": "Thornton Road 58, SW12 0LF London", "price": "from £10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["religion/christian", "literature"], "description": "An evening book launch with a live podcast recording. 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Actor and podcaster Tim Downie, known from 'Upstart Crow' and 'Toast of London' and host of the 'Folklands' podcast, talks to author, actor and comedian Rachel Parris about his new book. It follows him through the seasons as he explores the strange and beautiful places that have shaped British folklore, from horn dances to blazing tar barrels. The book is filled with insights into hidden mythic sites and the people who keep the folklore fires burning.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rituals-a-folk-journey-through-the-seasons-69522/", "official_url": "https://backstory.london/products/10th-november-7-30pm-tim-downie-in-conversation-with-rachel-parris-rituals-a-folk-journey-through-the-seasons", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f7b43da8f12728f8f06770ac57573d549f089594b61ffcb473b21952de5b4e7e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jonathan Coe", "start": "2026-11-09T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Backstory", "address": "Balham High Road 71, SW12 9AP London", "price": "£15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://backstory.london/products/2nd-november-7-30pm-ella-risbridger-the-kitchen-book", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/historical-fiction", "music/classical"], "description": "An evening with bestselling author Jonathan Coe at Backstory, a bookshop on Balham High Road in London, where he talks about his writing career and his new novel. It is his third visit to Backstory. The novel, Lessons in Harmony, is set in 1907 in Belle Epoque Paris and follows a decades-long friendship between composers Maurice Ravel and Ralph Vaughan Williams, told through Ravel's devoted acolyte Mylo. As the shadow of war approaches, the two friends pursue their vocation through one of history's most turbulent but creative periods, while their differing senses of national identity raise the question of whether these liberate or constrain them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jonathan-coe-40989/", "official_url": "https://backstory.london/products/9th-november-7-30pm-jonathan-coe-lessons-in-harmony", "image": "https://noky.io/images/60fbec7927ba0507a430ae88f043d27273048c96c60d02056c79afbd1ae51cc1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "First Scares", "start": "2026-11-01T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T14:00:00Z", "place": "The Cinema Museum", "address": "Dugard Way 2, SE11 4TH London", "price": "£22.50 – £40", "price_from": "22.50", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketlab.app/series/2886#/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/horror"], "description": "First Scares is a two-show event in which broadcaster and writer Matthew Sweet explores what film or TV moments genuinely terrified stars of stage and screen. The 14:00 session features interviews with Peter Straughan (Conclave), BAFTA-winning Best Actress Joanna Scanlan (After Love) and Angela Allen; the 17:00 session features Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, The League of Gentlemen), Lesley Manville (The Crown, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris), Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Dune) and Carol Morley (The Falling, Typist Artist Pirate King). Expect favourite scares, childhood nightmares and plenty of debate about what really gets under our skin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/first-scares-39074/", "official_url": "https://cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/first-scares/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ebfb7bc7dfa7390977add9f248e9b3ad2d4a1460661cafeefc340e263f69f84d-2000.webp"}]}