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Week in Books: From Mills & Boon to Guantanamo Bay

Jon Davis | Friday 21 January, 2011 19:40

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Bookstock– 7pm Saturday 22nd
Not necessarily the place for psychedelic drugs and free love, but drop in for spoken word, comedy and book swapping.
The Hat & Tun, 3 Hatton Wall, EC1N 8HX. Ticket £15

Mills & Boon Workshop – 6pm Tuesday 25th
‘He dismounted his steed and took her in his throbbing arms.’ If you’d like to write your very own Mills & Boon romance novel, get yourself and your innuendos down to this workshop.
Brompton Library, 210 Old Brompton Road, SW5 0BS. Tickets £5

Patti Smith Talk with Geoff Dyer – 6.30pm Tuesday 25 Jan
Patti Smith the musician, poet, writer, artist and Warhol Factory reveller, talks to the affable, acclaimed novelist Geoff Dyer. Expect tales from the 70s New York punk rock scene and her friendship with William Burrows and Allen Ginsberg.
Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR

The Guantanamo Poems – 7pm Thursday 27th
Hear poetry straight from the pens of Guantanamo Bay prisoners, revealing what life is like in orange jump suits and iron cages.
Calder Bookshop, 51 The Cut, SE1 8LF. Tickets £6

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