{"title": "BOOK LAUNCH: ALSTON MOOR by Anne Charnock", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T21:00:00Z", "place": "Housmans", "address": "Caledonian Road 5, London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/science-fiction", "nature/environment"], "description": "A book launch at Housmans celebrating Anne Charnock's new novel, with readings, a conversation and mingling afterwards. Charnock, an Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning science-fiction writer, will be in conversation with fellow writer Sandra Newman. Alston Moor, published by Goldsmiths Press, is a polyphonic novel portraying one of England's most remote landscapes, now degraded and threatened by arson and wildfire. It interweaves a 1548 story of Isabel holding to old ways amid the Protestant reformation with a present-day tale of Elizabeth's scientist team trying to right ecological wrongs, asking how society confronts crisis through science, faith or ritual.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-launch-alston-moor-by-anne-charnock-41522/", "official_url": "https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-alston-moor-by-anne-charnock/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8a8a58b5ccdee6fc3655f315d1249cf91fafe279443bf0d33867607d5c16a59a-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T21:00:00Z", "place": "Housmans", "address": "Caledonian Road 5, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Louise K. Blight – Nature of Things: A Salon For Curious Minds", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Grand Junction", "address": "St Mary Magdalene Church, Rowington Cl, W2 5TF London", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/animals/birds", "art/conservation", "literature/memoir"], "description": "An evening talk with conservation scientist and author Louise K. Blight about finding solace in the world's most remote location. She will discuss \"Where the Earth Meets the Sky\", her book exploring her time studying penguins in Antarctica, the most isolated place on the planet. The evening is hosted at Grand Junction's Bantaba House with custom cocktails and mocktails, and free childcare is provided. 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Samuel Goff, editorial director of Klassiki, chairs the conversation, which also features presentations and questions from the audience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rediscovering-the-strugatsky-brothers-a-talk-with-mark-bould-38091/", "official_url": "https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/6559", "image": "https://noky.io/images/510ae9da50b1ad77b5e6f30ac43eb3834b8d6050dacb012dbb90551bdc9bd55a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Futures We Dream Author Panel", "start": "2026-11-18T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Deptford Lounge Library", "address": "Giffin Street 9, SE8 4RJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "The Futures We Dream Author Panel is an author event hosted by the library at Deptford Lounge, part of its Imagined Worlds season. Writers E. J. 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All welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-futures-we-dream-author-panel-73940/", "official_url": "https://deptfordlounge.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-futures-we-dream-author-panel/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a910087e99d8455c8bab4b0e183f584b0ccbdfa7f940a6c5fb8d999a9f92f33f-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Mill Book Club", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T20:30:00Z", "place": "The Mill", "address": "Coppermill Lane 7-11, E17 7HA London", "price": "£0", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/book-club"], "description": "The Mill Book Club is a monthly book club held at The Mill, a community venue on Coppermill Lane in Walthamstow, London. It is run by The Mill, with Jenny Mensah as the contact, and meets usually on the first Tuesday of each month in the Garden Room. The club reads and discusses one book per session, with this year's picks including Milkman by Anna Burns, Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healy, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén. Sessions are free, though a donation to The Mill is suggested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-mill-book-club-65744/", "official_url": "https://themille17.org/events/the-mill-book-club-6-2026-11-03/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Hope Working Group: Roundtable and Book Launch, David Chandler's Hope (Routledge Shortcuts)", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "University of Westminster", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/books", "society/politics"], "description": "A roundtable and book launch for David Chandler's Hope (Routledge Shortcuts), hosted by the Hope Working Group. Discussants include Noga Glucksam, Seán Molloy, Nitasha Kaul and Emma McCluskey, chaired by Aidan Hehir. The book explores the politics of hope against a world shaped by global crises, from political disillusionment to catastrophic climate change. 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