Shoreditch House Literary Salon
I love reading and I like drinking but have found it hard to combine the two. After about half a bottle of wine my eyesight wanders and I get the urge to whisper facetious comments to my friends. Help is at hand thanks to London’s burgeoning literary salon scene.
If your image of book events is shaped by the image of an author droning on self-importantly to a crowd of geriatrics then think again; today’s book events are convivial and often quite rowdy.
Henry Castiglione is a former wine merchant, some time journalist and full time publisher. He has contributed pieces under various pseudonyms for Time Out London, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, londonreviewofbreakfasts.blogspot.com and thefirstpost.co.uk. He divides his time between the King and Queen in Fitzrovia and The Hare in Bethnal Green whilst coming up with increasingly silly ideas for the novelty book that will make his fortune.
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