News and events.
In conversation at the Birchington Literary Festival
I’ll be at BirchLit, the newish literary festival in Birchington, near Margate, Kent, on Saturday 17 June, in conversation with journalist Karen Benyon.
Details below.
This Beating Heart event at the Manchester Poetry Library
I’ll be at the new Poetry Library in Manchester on Thursday 8 June, talking about This Beating Heart - out in paperback that day - together with fellow MMU colleague and novelist, Livi Michael.
The event is free and only an hour long, so do pop along.
Livi Michael and me :)
Festive Gliterary Lunch in Edinburgh
If you’ve never been to a Gliterary Lunch, do try one with a group of friends or colleagues. They’re great fun, with fabulous food and wine, and a chance to hear from two different writers discussing their recent work.
I’ve done a few, as both featured writer and compere, and I’m delighted to be back in beautiful Edinburgh in December 2022 to talk about my Christmas novel Gifts, which is out in paperback in November 2022.
Details here.
Tales on Market St. presents An Evening with Laura Barnett
Delighted to announce that I’ll be talking about my latest novels Gifts and This Beating Heart, as well as The Versions of Us and all my work so far, at my favourite local bookshop Tales on Market St,, Faversham, on 24 November at 7pm.
Tickets free - just turn up. Hope to see you there!
Bookshop Day with Laura Barnett
I’ll be at the Little Green Bookshop in Herne Bay (one of my favourite seaside spots in Kent, as it happens) celebrating Bookshop Day with a discussion of my new novel This Beating Heart.
Tickets are £5 and available here.
An Evening With Laura Barnett
I’ll be at the lovely Waterstones Canterbury reading from, and discussing, my new novel This Beating Heart.
Tickets are £5 - free for students - and available here.
Launch event for This Beating Heart
My fourth novel, This Beating Heart, is published in August 2022. It’s about marriage, and fertility, and what happens when, in midlife, you are forced to rethink all your plans and expectations.
I am celebrating publication day - Thursday 18 August - with a launch event at one of my favourite independent bookshops, The Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace. This was my local until very recently, and the novel is set in and around Crystal Palace, my old stomping-ground and a place still very dear to my heart.
The event is open to the public and, even better, it’s free. Hope to see you there x
Belfast Book Festival: In Conversation with Lucy Caldwell
Event at the Belfast Book Festival, talking about Gifts, short stories and my work more broadly.
Gifts published
After some time away from my writing desk – having my son Caleb, now a toddler; and coping with new motherhood in the midst of a global pandemic (not a walk in the park, I don’t mind admitting – although actually we did do a lot of walking in parks) – I’m thrilled to announce that my third novel, Gifts, will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in November 2021.
It’s a novel in short stories with a Christmas theme: we follow 12 characters in a fictional Kent market town (the eagle-eyed among you may have noted that I myself recently moved from London to Kent) as they choose Christmas gifts.
You can read more about the novel here, and check out its beautiful cover throughout this site.
LB x
Gifts launch event
Launch event for GIFTS, at my amazing local independent bookshop, Tales on Market Street, Faversham.