2023
January
28 January at 11.00 am, Muswell Hill Bookshop, Gillian will sign copies of her new children’s book.
February
24 February, from 1.00 pm, Radio Felixtowe, Gillian will be in conversation with Jules Button on her afternoon show, talking about books, writing, music and other stuff.
June
10 June, Chippenham Lions
September
2 to 8 September, Literary Consultancy (TLC) Writers’ Residential Week in Spain, Casa Ana.
13 September, signing at Folkestone Bookshop.
14 September, signing at Rye Bookshop, High St · 01797 227442.
16 September, signing at Waterstones Tenterden, 47 High Street, Tenterden, Kent TN30 6BJ.
October
19 October 6.0 till 8.0, with Maureen Armstrong at the Clifton Community Bookshop, Bristol.
Gillian Fernandez Morton and Maureen Armstrong will talk about writing fact as fiction, and preserving personal memories in print using the examples of Bombweed and Kissed To Death.
November
25 November at Chippenham Town Hall.
December
11 to 16 December, Arvon at Totleigh Barton writers week.
2024
February
21 February, Gillian interviewed on Victory Radio online with Bob Bruce
March
19 to 23 March, Gillian joins the Moonluza Conference on Fairy Tales in Sintra, Portugal.
April
27 April, Maureen and Gillian join the Hawkesbury Upton Book Festival.
May
4 May, Gillian sells copies of her books at the Love Southsea market at the PAC bookstall, Palmerston Road, Southsea.
June
1 June, Chippenham Lions.
8 June, Southwick D Day Revival Festival.
19 June, Hugh Todd’s Book Launch at Stoke Newington Bookshop.
24 July, reading at the ‘Speaking Volumes’ at Southsea.
September
4 September, speaking at Clifton Rotarians lunch with Maureen Armstrong, welcomed by the President, Jay.
7 September, at 2.30 pm, Lee Hub Independent Community Library, 14 High Street, Lee on the Solent, P013 9BZ. Gillian will be talking about the overlap between fiction and memoir drawing on her mother’s unpublished novel about the war years.
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26 September, reading from Kissed to Death at the ‘Writers Reading’ zoom event.
November
17 November, The PAC all day book event at Apex Gallery, Gunwharfe Quays,Southsea.
2025
January
22 January at 7.00pm, Gillian will read at Speak Volumes, Portsmouth Authors Collective at the Hideaway Cafe, Albert Road, Southsea.
29 January at 7.00pm, Winchmore Hill Book Group, King’s Head pub, Winchmore Hill, London, N21.
March
18 March, Fairy-tale and Storytelling Therapy, Sintra Portugal.
20 March, Writers Reading zoom meeting with Debbi Voissey featuring Gillian.
April
12 April, all day, PAC books at Cathedral market day.
23 April at 7.00pm, Gillian will read at Speak Volumes, Portsmouth Authors Collective at the Hideaway Cafe, Albert Road, Southsea.
June
19 June at 7.00pm, Writers Reading zoom meeting with Debbi Voissey featuring Gillian.
August
9 August, 9am to 4.00pm, Gillian will be reading at the book festival run by Sarah at Lee bookshop, Lee on the Solent Festival.
Previous Events
2021
It had been a strange time for us all. However, we hadn’t forgotten the pleasure of promoting Bombweed at events in bookshops, museums and festivals pre-pandemic:
Clifton and Crouch End Waterstones; Bath and Portsmouth WHSmiths; Max Minerva’s Marvellous Books and Storysmith Books in Bristol; The Book Shop at Lee on the Solent; joining the online session at The Emporium, Woodbridge; the Book Fest, local author library events and the Southwick D Day commemorations in the Portsmouth area; various events in Wiltshire; Hawkesbury Upton Literary Festival in the Cotswolds; and two Meet the Author events at The Imperial War Museum.
We look forward to meeting people again as things safely open up, to introduce more of you to Bombweed and now to the new book, Kissed to Death.
March
21-26 March, Fact, fiction and the therapeutic opportunities and consequences of writing for an audience.
Presentation at the VII International Seminar on Fairy-tale and Storytelling Therapy, Sintra Portugal.
August
22 August – meeting of local authors at the Lions Club of Chippenham.
Meadow Farm Nurseries, 9, Sutton Lane, Langley Burrell, Chippenham, SN15 4LW.
September
20 September 6.00 – 8.00pm, book launch at the Crouch End Cricket Club, Calthorpe Ground Shepherds Cot Park Road, London N8 8JJ
October
9 October 10.30 – 2.30 as part of National Book Day, a day celebrating all things bookshops in conjunction with ‘Books are My Bag Campaign’. Special guest author, Gill Morton, signing her new book Kissed to Death, set in Portsmouth.
The Book Shop, 142 High Street, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, PO13 9DD
Tel:02392 556592 www.leebookshop.co.uk.
25 February, 1pm. As part of Portsmouth Bookfest, Gillian spoke in the Menuhin Room at Central Library.
November
6 November, all day. Christmas Bazaar, Lions Club of Chippenham, Neeld Community and Arts Centre, Chippenham, SN15 3ER.
11 November, 6.00pm, Southsea Library, 19 – 21 Palmerston Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO5 3QQ.
December
11 December, 12.00 pm to 4.00 pm, Craft and Gift Market, Union Church Community Centre, Weston Park, Crouch End, N8 9PX.
23 December, Portsmouth poet Tina Mac Naughton reviews Kisssed to death
2022
February
25 February, 1pm, meet Gillian at the Portsmouth Bookfest.
March
11 March, 2.00pm, The Old Library, Eastville, Lockdown or Blitz which is worst.
With the question, “What is your story?” Maureen Armstrong talked about the novel Bombweed, and the life of her mother, Margaret Smith, who wrote the original story in 1947. Maureen looked at how family life in World War Two had similarities with, but also great differences from, our recent experiences of Lockdown.
21 to 26 March, Hotel Tivoli Sintra, Portugal. Gillian contributed to the VII International Seminar on Fairy-tale and Storytelling Therapy organised by Moonluza, Unipessoal, Lda.
September
1 September, 1.45 pm, St Mary Redcliffe Lunch Club, Prewett Street, Bristol.
October
4 October, 7.00 pm to 9.0 pm, Hornsey Library, Haringey Park, London N8 9JA. As part of National Libraries Week, Gillian Fernandez Morton talked about and read from Bombweed.
17 October, 2.00 pm, Chippenham Public Library, Timber Street, Chippenham, SN15 3EJ.
December
1 December, 2.00 pm, Melksham Community Campus, 27 Market Place, Melksham SN12 6ES.
12 December, 10.30 am till 1.30 pm, The Book Shop, 142 High Street Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire PO13 9DD (023) 9255 6592
17 December, 12.00 pm till 4.00 pm, The Christmas Craft and Gift Event, Union Church Community Centre, Weston park, N89PX
Gillian Fernandez Morton and Maureen Armstrong will talk about Bombweed and Kissed to Death and their family links to south coast wartime history:
13 September, 5.00 to 7.00 pm at The Bookshop, Folkestone, 70-72 Tontine St, Folkestone CT20 1JP
14 September, 11.00 am to 1.00 pm, at The Rye Bookshop, 25 High St, Rye TN31 7JF
16 September, 11.00 am to 12.00 pm at Waterstones, Tenterden 47 High St,Tenterden TN30 6BJ
November
7 November at 2.00 pm, Redcatch Community Centre, Knowle, Bristol. Maureen Armstrong will speak about the overlap of memoir with fiction with excerpts from Bombweed.
24 November, 10.30 am, Probus Club, The White Hart Hotel. Salisbury, Maureen Armstrong will speak about the overlap of memoir with fiction with excerpts from Bombweed.