Netta Cartwright is launching her new book The Many Lives of Zillah Smith, an English Romany at the Wolseley Centre, Wolseley Bridge on Sunday 17th July from 3 to 5pm. ST17 0WT. The Wolsey Centre is just off the A51, 1.5 miles north of Rugeley. After a brief introduction from Bob Fowke of YouCaxton Publications and from Netta Cartwright, there will be poetry readings by Grace Smith and a slide show and display of photos and poems from the book – and a chance to meet Zillah herself.

Vinette Hoffman-Jackson will be launching her new book Did the Right Sperm Win?, an anthology of short stories, anecdotes and personal reflections, an inspiring and individual collection, at the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, Luton, on 14th July, starting at 5.30 pm. All are welcome.

Lauren Staton will talking about the research that formed the basis for her novel, Notes from the Edge, published by YouCaxton, at a book launch 7.00 pm, Thursday June 2nd, at Delanys Cafe Bar, Jalon on the Costa Brava. Her novel is based on the true story of Brighton artist Henry Havelock Cornell, following Lauren’s discovery of notes he wrote before being admitted to a mental asylum. The story starts in Brighton at the turn of the Twentieth Century and moves to prewar London in 1939 and involves, among other things, murder and an exhibition at the Royal Academy..

Catherine Cooper, the children’s author, will be available at the Book Fair at the Leominster Festival on Monday 30th May, to talk about her work and sign copies.

David Waugh, author of  Lottie’s Run, Girls Can’t Pay Football and Jessica’s Other World, all published by YouCaxton, will be providing the keynote lecture at Worcester University on 17th May with a talk on ‘early reading’. Dr Waugh is Senior  Teaching Fellow at Durham University and this is the the title of an academic work that he edited last year.

Ian McKinney, author of Scouse Gothic and Scouse Gothic 2, will be talking with Sean Styles of Radio Merseyside next Monday morning, 18th April, about his successful gothic crime series based on Liverpool.