Tuesday Evening, 14 July 7-8:30pm (6:30 for tea and cake)
Christopher Bowden writes fascinating novels set in and around our time and place.
HIs latest novel is The Colour of Memory.
An artist’s chance discovery of an old notebook while on a walk in the woods raises questions: Who wrote it, why is it in code, what secrets does it hide? And why does it include the address of a house that does not exist?
Please attend for an audience with Chris to discuss his latest novel and his growing body of fiction, which is quietly putting contemporary South East London on the fictional map.
Admission is free, and tickets are not strictly necessary, but we ask that you register for an invite on Eventbrite, to help with planning.
Organised by the Friends of Carnegie Library in cooperation with the Lambeth Library Service
How to overcome loneliness and isolation and enjoy solitude - a photographic project
Tuesday evening, 9 June - 7pm (6:30 for tea & cake)
The book contains 49 stunning portraits of unique individuals (including the author herself).
Through her photographs and interviews, Julia explores themes of loneliness with her subjects, of feeling invisible, misunderstood and alienated, as well as discoveries of unexpected paths to understanding and connection. This is a wonderful way to confront and learn to talk about what is afterall a universal experience at the edge of all of our lives.
Julia Hawkins is a London-based editorial and documentary portrait photographer, one of the winners of the Royal Photographic Society’s Portrait of Britain Award in 2024 and author of On Loneliness, photographs and interviews on the universal experience of loneliness.
Please join Julia and our wonderful audience for what promises to be an enlightening presentation and discussion.
Admission is free.
Please register for a place with Eventbrite, because this is very helpful for planning.
Organised by the Friends of Carnegie Library, in conjunction with the Lambeth Library Service.
The Friends are delighted to welcome back novelist and art critic Sue Hubbard to discuss God’s Little Artist, a biography in verse of Welsh painter Gwen John (1876 - 1939).
As with many female painters of the time, John’s work was often overshadowed by that of her male contemporaries, especially her brother Augustus John. God’s Little Artist is a celebration of her, her passionate life and work, illustrated with precision, authenticity and the keen painterly eye of a poet, novelist and art critic.
This promises to be a fascinating evening.
Admission free.
Organised and hosted by the Friends of Carnegie Library, grateful for assistance from the Lambeth Library Service
Reservations are not strictly necessary, but we do ask people to register at Eventbrite, to help with planning.
Tuesday evening, 14 April: 7 - 8:30 pm at The Carnegie Library
South Parks is a collection of twenty short stories set in, about or around a selection of South London open spaces. Inside are talking statues, strange cults, pagan estate agents and a very wrong horse. There are foxes and a vengeful toilet goddess but also stories of love, friendship, family life and growing up.
Expect anti-golf riots and stolen geese as we celebrate places to sit in, places to play in and places to spend the day in alongside contemporary (and older) threats to the concept of free open spaces in London. There may also be references to park toilet goddesses, pagan estate agents, mermaids looking for a mate and Peckham Rye’s gay cultural renaissance alongside a celebration of south London’s open spaces. The talk will switch between the real and the magically real and is based on his book South Parks: Stories from the Southern Commons.
Chris Roberts is a London writer and tour guide who has written books on the history of nursery rhymes, London's bridges, lost words and superstition in football. He has been conducting walking tours around London for most of this century.
The Friends of Carnegie Library invite you to attend this event with Chris Parks, which is part of our monthly series of Author Events, always on the second Tuesday of the month, always at the Carnegie Library (except once during covid), always Admission Free.
The event will start at 7 pm but please come early for tea & cakes, from 6:30.
Reservations are not strictly necessary, but we do ask people to register at Eventbrite, to help with planning.
We thank the librarians at Carnegie Library for their assistance with staging this event, and indeed for all their dedication and efforts which keep the Carnegie Library running as the great and much loved community library that it is for Herne Hill and Loughborough Junction and environs.
The event was well attended by a very appreciative audience.Many thanks to Chris and to all who attended for making this a memorable occasion.
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