BOOKS: EVENTS

LONDON

Playwright and novelist Biyi Bandele is reading from and signing copies of his new Brixton-set novel The Street on Friday 30 July at the Juice Bar, 407 Coldharbour Lane, SW9, 8.30pm. 0171 738 4141.

Novelists Courttia Newland (The Scholar and now Society Within) and Patricia Cumper (One Bright Child) will be reading and playing music on Thursday 29 July at Vox'n'Roll, Filthy McNasty's, Amwell St, EC1, 8.30pm. 0171 837 6067, voxnroll@gofornet.co.uk

MANCHESTER

Robert Llewellyn (aka Kryten from Red Dwarf) talks about and reads from his latest novel Punchbag, a comic take on the war between the sexes, on Friday 30 July at Waterstone's, Deansgate, 7pm. pounds 3. 0161 837 3000.