Summer of Events from Penguin Live

We don’t just love reading books, we love bookish events too and top of that list has to be author tours. If you agree and you live in, or are visiting the UK this summer then we have some fantastic news for you as Penguin Live has unveiled its summer of events including tours from a host of top authors including Caitlin Moran (How to Be a Woman), Tan France (Queer Eye), and Scarlett Curtis (Feminists Don’t Wear Pink) among others.

Curtis’ debut Feminists Don’t Wear Pink will be featured during Feminist Book Fortnight (4th to 18th May) with a tour featuring a series of live podcast events featuring special guests along the way. That tour starts on 9th May and includes dates in Manchester, Nottingham, London, and Dublin.

While Mary Portas will be celebrating her new book, Work Like a Woman and sharing insights on her decades of business experience as well as secrets on how to be happier, more productive, and more collaborative. Portas’ tour runs from 13th to 31st May at a variety of venues across the UK.

Queer Eye star Tan France will make his first UK Live appearance to promote his memoir, Naturally Tan across London, Birmingham, and Manchester. Tan will be discussing his memoirs, covering subjects such as what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional South Asian family and will speak candidly about how he found his voice and style, according to PRH.

Journalist and author Caitlin Moran will also be back on tour this July to mark the paperback publication of How to Be Famous, and promises to talk about everything from camel-toes to the #MeToo movement, and how, exactly, to be famous.

Ben Macintyre will appear at various venues across the UK to discuss his latest book, The Spy and the Traitor, said to be a thrilling tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the greatest agent of the Cold War. His tour will run from 28th May to 9th June at cities including Nottingham, Edinburgh, and Norwich.

Other Penguin Live events include Paul Mason, Stuart Maconie, and even crime master James Ellroy who will appear at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in Manchester on 27th May.

If any of these events sound right up your street then visit the events website!