Our weekly children's story time is back, now on Thursday afternoons at 3:45pm. The first will be on Thursday 29th January. Story time is free; just turn up! Typically, we read 3 or 4 picture books, ideal for ages 2-6. Before or after the session, you are welcome to enjoy a hot drink from our cafe.
Our event on Nov 29th with award winning author and illustrator Victoria Turnbull, presenting her debut picture book The Sea Tiger, went down a storm with the children!
Thanks to Ross Montgomery who, on Nov 8th, delighted children with a reading from his new book The Tornado Chasers and led a series of activities based around the theme of conquering fear.
Also thanks to Yuval Zommer for his reading from his lovely picture book The Big Blue Thing on the Hill, on Oct 11th.
We look forward to our event with picture book author and illustrator Victoria Turnbull on Nov 29th!
Please
see below for our calendar of children's author events, story times
and activities from now until December. We're very excited to be
hosting Yuval Zommer (The
Big Blue Thing on the Hill,
suitable 2-6yrs), Ross Montgomery (The
Tornado Chasers,
7-11yrs) and Victoria Turnbull (The
Sea Tiger,
2-6yrs). Also, look out for the brilliant inventive adventure, Jon
Scieszka's Frank
Einstein (7-9yrs, limited signed copies in
the shop from Monday, call to reserve.)
There
will be a few more things going on around Halloween, including a
spooky drawing competition! Draw your favourite character from a
scary story and drop it into the shop with the name of the character
on the front, and your name and age on the back. Deadline Tues 28th
October. Prizes to be won!
Please
note also our weekly story time with Suki, every Friday
3:45pm.
All these events are free. No need to register—just
turn up! But do feel free to call us to reserve your copies of the
books.
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Author's Story Time with Yuval Zommer Sat 17 Oct, 3:45pm Suitable 2-6yrs GROWL, HOWL, RUMBLE and ROAR your way through a fun and noisy story time with guest author Yuval Zommer. Yuval will be reading from his riotously funny picture book, The Big Blue Thing on the Hill. Afterwards there will be a chance to make up some new stories and maybe invent some wild beasts of your own! Audience participation positively encouraged. |
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Author Reading & Activities with Ross Montgomery Sat 8 Nov, 3:45pm Suitable 7-11yrs Ross Montgomery, author of the quirky, humorous and thought-provoking book the Tornado Chasers, will be reading from and answering questions about the book, as well as hosting some creative activities. Come and get involved! 'A
remarkable new comic voice.' 'Fast,
often furious and, finally, surprising.'
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Author's Story Time with Victoria Turnbull Sat 29 Nov, 3:45pm Suitable 2-6yrs Let yourself be swept up in the imaginative and beautiful Sea Tiger, the first book by a stunning new talent in children's illustration and storytelling. '...lyrical, elegiac and highly imaginative' winner of the 2013 AOI Association of Illustrators New Talent Award |
Anthony Beevor and Artemis Cooper gave a fascinating talk on their writing partnership, hosted by Nomad at Fulham Library as part of Hammersmith and Fulham Arts Fest.
Charlie and Louise Mortimer had us all in stitches on the final evening of our Independent Booksellers Week this year as they shared their memories of their father with us and read from their books Dear Lupin and Dear Lumpy.
We had a dazzling modern bookclub earlier this July with award nominated author Louise Doughty, who was here to read and talk about her gripping new novel Apple Tree Yard.
The charasmatic and entertaining author S.J. Watson visited Nomad to discuss his best-selling book Before I go to Sleep, as well as writing novels, and getting a film deal.
Local author Artemis Cooper joined us to discuss her recent biography, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure. A fascinating evening all about the brilliant traveller and author who died in 2011. A great evening all-round!
In October last year, we were lucky enough to be joined by Rebecca Asher, author of the excellent Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality. What followed was an electrifying evening of discussion and debate about the state of motherhood - and fatherhood - in the UK today. A truly stimulating and enjoyable evening!
Legendary Bookseller Jen Campbell, compiler of Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops payed a special visit to Nomad , signing copies of her book and generally spreading joy!
The editor of the bestselling book Dear Lupin visited Nomad to do his first reading of the letters sent to him by his father Roger.
Charlie treated us to an exclusive evening in which he read some of his favourite letters and shared a few more anecdotes from his interesting life. A wonderful evening that secured Dear Lupin as Nomad's favourite read of the Summer!
Justin Cartwright's new book Other People's Money has been a riotous success at Nomad so we thought we would invite the author along to talk about and read from the book.
On a balmy May evening last year Justin read some of the more comic moments of the Other People's Money and answered many questions on his satirical style and the art of writing a State of the Nation novel.
Legendary cook Mary Berry kindly accepted our invitation two years ago to come and sign copies of her books at Nomad.
Nomad Books were the lucky third winners of the Telegraph Book Club competition, thanks to all the lovely commentsleft by our loyal customers!
On December the 9th, we proudly welcomed Ross Raisin, author of the fantastic God's Own Country, who read from his newest novel Waterline. He was joined by journalist and competition chairwoman Genevieve Fox, which resulted some fascinating and lively discussion.
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