Plectrum - The Cultural Pick Live Edition: Mustered No. 6

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An evening of Spies, Banjos, Victorian Debutantes on Roller Skates and Assassins on Roller Blades... with live music, author readings and talks, poetry, spoken word, and more!

7.30pm in the upstairs acoustic room at The Betsey Trotwood, London EC1

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THE LINE-UP IN MORE DETAIL

CLARE MULLEY talking passionately about false names, false legs, the discerning Wehrmacht officer's car of choice, and a certain Spy Who Loved: the charismatic, difficult, courageous Krystyna Skarbek/Christine Granville, Britain’s first female secret agent of WWII and the subject of the award-winning author’s latest critically acclaimed biography, The Spy Who Loved (Macmillan, 2012).

'Highly atmospheric... scholarly and tautly written' - The Economist
'Engrossing... as thrilling as any fiction' - The Mail on Sunday

claremulley.com

DANA IMMANUEL like the Cadbury's Caramel bunny, having a very bad day, with a banjo, in a swamp, somewhere in North London, the singer-songwriter who read Classics at Oxford before becoming a professional busker on the London Underground and a poker tournament blogger, playing an acoustic set of her unique blend of folk, old-fashioned jazz and Americana overlaid with lyrics featuring a surfeit of wit and a lack of punches pulled.

danaimmanuel.com

JANE BRADLEY founder and editor of For Books’ Sake, the UK webzine dedicated to promoting and celebrating writing by women, talks jammers, pivots and zebras, and a world where fierce, fast women are often hell on wheels in celebration of Derby Shorts, For Book’s Sake’s new anthology, a collaboration with London Rollergirls.

For Books' Sake testimonials:
'Thank you for existing' – Sarah Dunant
'As much a lure to the unwary as a comfort to the lit addict, long may her good works continue' - Cathi Unsworth

forbookssake.net

KAITE WELSH writer, journalist, former life model and failed rollergirl, reads her short story from Derby Shorts (For Book’s Sake, 2013), This Is Not Your Great-Great-Great Grandaughter’s Derby, in which tired of afternoon tea, marriage proposals and corsets, a group of Victorian debutantes find escape, adventure and sisterhood when they accidentally invent roller derby a century early.

“a wordsmith in the true meaning of the term: she turns phrases until they’re exquisitely wrought, and fashions from the raw material of language something beautiful and unique.” - Emma Rees

kaitewelsh.wordpress.com

MAGDA KNIGHT reads her short story from Derby Shorts (For Book’s Sake, 2013), Dead Girls Don’t Wear Blades. She is the founder and owner of Mookychick an online feminist hub for alternative women. She writes speculative fiction for assorted children, adults and changelings. When she grows up she would like to be a sword or a bear.

magdaknight.com
mookychick.co.uk

DJ for the evening: MAX DÉCHARNÉ, playing songs from Her Majesty's Secret Setlist. Musician, singer-songwriter, author, including his latest book, Capital Crimes: Seven Centuries of London Life and Murder (Random House, 2012)

‘his decision is vinyl’

Evening hosted by GUY SANGSTER ADAMS, editor of P-TCP, performing Cuban-heeled flights of fancy and absurdist cultural observations in verse and spoken word.

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