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London Lit! 3 The Big Green Bookshop - Friday 2nd September 2011
Special Guest and Compeer: Norma Cohen
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NORMA COHEN was born into a campaigning, leftwing Jewish
family in post war Liverpool, caught between the heady pull of Communism versus
Zionism. Many years later, she received funding to research her grandparents’
Litvak roots. The novel extract was inspired by their hazardous flight
from Russia on a cattle boat over a hundred years ago. Co-founder of
Sidewalk & Ship of Fools theatre companies, she works extensively as an
actor, recently in her own stage play Does it Come with Ketchup? Her short
stories include A Violent Tale: Mordechai's First Brush with Love for
Loki Books and The Last Resort for BBC Radio 4. She has fused her writing,
journalistic and teaching experience to set up communications company, VITAL
SPARKS www.vitalsparks. co.uk
Norma is currently
performing at The Arcola Theatre in The Queen of Spades. http://www.arcolatheatre.com/action=showtemplate&sid=489
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JAMES HOLDEN
washed up on the shores of London after
spending his childhood in Yorkshire. Nowadays, he works as a political geek by day and spends his evenings dreaming about
earning money from writing.
His short story Pampas Grass was also performed by Actress Sarah Le Fevre at Liars
League.
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EMUA
ALI
has worked with adult learners for many years in adult education and training
sectors. She has a strong interest in women’s development and gender equality.
She is working on Laamiga Women’s Mentoring & Training, a women’s
community mentoring project based in north London that aims to help refugee and
migrant women to find employment or set up their own business.
She
believes if women are empowered to reach their full potential then the whole
community will benefit. She enjoys writing poetry and fiction.
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SAMUEL WRIGHT writes novels and stories, some of which will be
published in the forthcoming Unbound Press and Spilling Ink anthologies. He
works an English teacher.
His stories can also often be heard at Liars League
events or in recordings on their website, www.liarsleague.typepad.com
In writing biographies such as this one, he has struggled in the past to
think of relevant information, but now often contents himself with proudly
announcing that he has recently become a father - a fact of considerable
importance to himself and his wife, but most of all to his brand new son Joel.
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DAVID BARRY has been an actor for almost 50 years having started
as a child actor, performing in a film with Tyrone Power, and working on stage
with Paul Scofield, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. He played Frankie Abbott
in the 70s sitcoms Please, Sir! and Fenn Street Gang, and his first
broadcast TV script was for Fenn Street Gang. In the ‘80s he wrote for Keep It in the
Family for Thames TV, and has appeared in countless theatre and TV
productions, including episodes of The Bill and A Mind to Kill, and played in
dozens of pantomimes, usually playing Dame. His first novel, Each Man
Kills, (Gomer Press) a police thriller, was published in 2002. His
autobiography, Flashback (Authorsonline), was published in 2006, and includes
his childhood memoirs of touring Europe in Titus Andronicus in1957 with
Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh with the first British theatre company to
perform behind the Iron Curtain.
He continues to
work as an actor and recently performed in his own play A Friend of Ronnie’s, about Ronnie
Biggs and the Great Train Robbery which played at Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge
Wells and Sarah Thorne Theatre Club, Broadstairs. He has also written a
children’s book The Ice Cream Time Machine, which was published by Libros
International in 2009, and will soon be republished by AUK Ltd. His latest
book, Mr Micawber Down Under will be published in hardback by Robert Hale
Books this October. He has two grown up children and lives in Tunbridge Wells,
Kent. www.davidbarryauthor.co.uk
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NIDHI BHATIA is 25 from the outskirts of London and the outskirts
of society. She has spent the past 8
years examining and experiencing the comedies of life and its possibilities,
which have ultimately bought her to now, writing her first book: a comedic commentary on the 'human
condition'.
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