Michael Rosen and the BBC2 visit Victoria Park Books

5th December 2007
Michael Rosen - the Children's Laureate, comes to Victoria Park Books to read to a group of children from Wentworth Nursery, and tells The Daily Politics programme on BBC2 that phonics are no substitute for teaching a love of reading.

Watch it here

Past Events

Matthew Parker - a writer, editor and reviewer specialising in modern history. Author of acclaimed bestsellers The Battle of Britain and Monte Cassino. His new book is called Panama Fever: the Battle to Build the Canal. This is the epic story of a thirty-year battle against the elements, disease, impossible terrain and massive financial collapse to create one of the most extraordinary engineering feats in history.
Date: Tuesday 13 March 8pm
Venue: Victoria Park Books, 174 Victoria Park Rd, London E9
Refreshments will be provided

Robin Richmond - fine artist, illustrator and author and founder of publisher White Stork Press. Author of 9 books and creator of a body of artistic work which has been shown in galleries from New York, to London. We have been lucky enough to show some of the paintings from her recent book The Storm Tree and Robin is coming to talk about the paintings and the book. Robin works in watercolour, oil and mixed media and is also a printmaker and makes paper. She will be starting a residency in France in 2007 at a 17th century paper mill in the Dordogne.
Date: Wednesday 14 March 8pm
Venue: Victoria Park Books, 174 Victoria Park Road, London E9
Refreshments will be provided

Jim Keeble - grew up in Cambridge. He is the author of Independence Day: A Broken Heart's Voyage Around the U.S.A., one of the New York Times Best Travel books of 2001; The A-Z of Us published by Penguin and My Fat Brother which is currently being into a Hollywood movie. He also writes feature films, including the award-winning comedy The Most Fertile Man in Ireland.
Date: Wednesday 21 March 8pm
Venue: Victoria Park Books, 174 Victoria Park Road, London E9
Refreshments will be provided

Sonia Lambert - her skilful debut novel is called Three Mothers and is about the very different lives of three generations of women in one extraordinary family. It covers a historical period spanning the Nazi occupation of Austria through the '60s to the present day.
Date: Tuesday 27 March 8pm
Venue: Sublime, Lauriston Road, London E9
Refreshments will be provided

Places are limited. If you are interested in attending any of these events please phone Jo on 020 8986 1124, or email on joanna@victoriaparkbooks.co.uk as entry is by pre booked ticket only.

Victoria Park Books Book Club

There is now a Book Club which meets at the shop roughly every six weeks. The inaugural meeting was on Monday 30 January at 8pm and the book discussed was "The Girls of Slender Means" by Muriel Spark. The next book will be "Mother's Milk" by Edward St Aubyn and we will be meeting on Monday 19th March at 8pm. If you are interested in participating please contact us.

Tots' Reading

We have two themed reading sessions for pre-schoolers, one on a Tuesday at 10.30am for 3-4 year olds, and one on a Friday at 11am for 0-3 year olds. The Friday session also includes some nursery rhymes and singing. Please feel free to drop in.

We regularly hold special signing, book launch and author reading events. If you would like us to contact you with our up-and-coming events then please give us a call or drop us a line on info@victoriaparkbooks.co.uk