Thursday 26th February
6.30 pm to 9pm
Actually is an independent publisher from London. They released 10Foot's A406 experimental audiobook which was Bleep's single of the year 2025; oversaw 10Foot's Big Issue takeover (featuring Banksy, Kneecap, British Folklore Society, Museum Of Homelessness, Alan Moore and TOX) which became the bestselling issue of all time; and produced Long Dark Tunnel, a runaway success art show in Piccadilly Circus that was forced to close by the Crown Estate.
Matthias Connor is a nurse in Westminster. His novel, Loose Fit, is an absurd tale of zero hour contract work in a Midlands prisons that somehow manages to be humorous and readable. Matthias' writing is highly commended by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Glazer - 'Intimate, vivid and humanising; Matthias gives a new and vital voice'.
Dorothy Spencer works in organic gardening and is the author of See What Life Is Like, a series of poetry books. Her fifth in the SWLIL series was selected as a Burley Fisher book of the year and is endorsed by Penny Woolcock - 'Both tender and ferocious, this is contemporary writing at its best'
Ron Seal does exactly what he says on the tin.