Singleholic Book Launch

Local author Katherine Bing will be launching her new book, Singleholic, at Lewisham library, with an introduction from Alex Wheatle MBE.

Join singleholic Sarah on a sassy Sex And the City-style multicultural dating spree across London. This is 'chick lit' which plays with race like never before and toys with questions you’ve always been afraid to ask. Signed copies will be available to buy on the night.

Thursday 16 April 2009

8.00pm-9.30pm

Lewisham Library

199-201 Lewisham High Street SE13 6LG

http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/

Free admission - all are welcome.

A Thousand Words: live literature from South London writers and photographers

Is a picture worth a thousand words? Come along - you decide.

Joan Byrne, Anne-Marie Glasheen and Pia Randall-Goddard will read from their latest literary works and show exhibitions of their photography.

Joan will read from Dole Days, a memoir of signing on in Peckham.
Anne-Marie will treat us to the poetry that inspired her work currently on show in the Limelight Gallery at Lewisham Library.
Pia will decide on the night, but expect crafted words.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 7.45pm for 8.00-9.30pm
Lewisham Library, 199-201 Lewisham High Street, London SE13 6LG
Tel: 020 8297 9677
Lewisham Library
Free admission - all are welcome

Lancaster W4827: Failed to return

To mark Armistice Day and the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War, Lewisham Library is hosting a talk by Cy Grant about his wartime experiences in the RAF.

"Born in Guyana, Cy Grant volunteered for the RAF at the start of the Second World War. He became a navigator and served with 103 Squadron. His Lancaster bomber was shot down on his third mission over Holland on the night of 25th June 1943 during an attack on the Ruhr valley. The crew had to parachute out of the plane and five of the seven survived. Grant was a prisoner of war in Germany for the next two years. His war memoir, “A Member of the Royal Air Force of Indeterminate Race”, is published by Woodfield Publishing (2006)."

His experiences are recorded on the MOD We Were There site

http://www.wewerethere.defencedynamics.mod.uk/ww2/c_grant.html

Free event

Tuesday 11th November, 7.45 for 8-9.30pm

Lewisham Library, 199-201 Lewisham High Street, London SE13 6LG.

Tel: 020 8314 9800

email: lewishamlibrary@lewisham.gov.uk