{"title": "Claire Fuller & Róisín Lanigan in conversation with Clare Chambers", "start": "2026-10-28T19:30:00Z", "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/ghost-stories"], "description": "An evening book talk called The Modern Ghost Story at Backstory, a bookshop on Balham High Road. Authors Claire Fuller and Róisín Lanigan join Clare Chambers, author of Shy Creatures and Small Pleasures, to discuss their recent novels Hunger & Thirst and I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There. The two books share unsettling buildings, social issues and 'modern ghosts': one follows a woman haunted for decades by a dare carried out in a mysterious squat, the other tells a darkly funny ghost story set in the rental crisis. 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Author and poet John Dougherty reads from his new picture book Something in the Darkness, accompanied by music and lots of interactive fun. The event asks what is out there in the dark, as strange whispers seem to follow your every step. It is for ages 4 and up and lasts 60 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/spooky-storytelling-with-john-dougherty-60430/", "official_url": "https://discover.org.uk/event/something-in-the-dark-with-john-dougherty/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/84dff37012e6d04c194ccbbf32c76bf7af50c4b3b2392bf82576f21943332160-2000.webp"}, {"title": "An Evening with Wm. Paul Young", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "Parish Church of the Holy Spirit", "address": "SW4 9JU London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "An Evening with Wm. Paul Young (Author of The Shack) is an evening of conversation about faith, story and the questions that stay with us. Wm. Paul Young, author of the bestselling novel The Shack, will talk about The Shack and his new book, Return to The Shack, reading extracts from it, with time for questions afterwards. Copies of his books will be on sale and he will sign them after the event, with refreshments served. 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