2025
September
4 September. We received a very warm welcome from Jay Chaudhurij, the President of the Clifton Rotary Club, at our book event.
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.
June
19 June at 7.00pm at the 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 at Speak Volumes, Portsmouth Authors Collective at the Hideaway Cafe, Albert Road, Southsea. Gillian will reading from Kissed to Death.
March
18 March. Fairy-tale and Storytelling Therapy, Sintra Portugal.
20 March. Writers Reading zoom meeting with Debbi Voissey featuring Gillian.
January
22 January at 7.00pm at Speak Volumes, Portsmouth Authors Collective at the Hideaway Cafe, Albert Road, Southsea. Gillian will read from Kissed to Death.
29 January at 7.00pm at Winchmore Hill Book Group, King’s Head pub, Winchmore Hill, London, N21.
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 at Meadow Farm Nurseries, 9, Sutton Lane, Langley Burrell, Chippenham, SN15 4LW. Meeting of local authors at the Lions Club of Chippenham.
September
20 September 6.00 – 8.00pm. at the Crouch End Cricket Club, Calthorpe Ground Shepherds Cot Park Road, London N8 8JJ. Book launch of Bombweed.
October
9 October 10.30 – 2.30 at the Book Shop, 142 High Street, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, PO13 9DD
Tel:02392 556592 www.leebookshop.co.uk.
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.
25 February, 1pm. As part of Portsmouth Bookfest, Gillian spoke in the Menuhin Room at Central Library.
November
6 November, all day at the Christmas Bazaar, Lions Club of Chippenham, Neeld Community and Arts Centre, Chippenham, SN15 3ER.
11 November, 6.00pm at the Southsea Library, 19 – 21 Palmerston Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, PO5 3QQ.
December
11 December, 12.00 pm to 4.00 pm at the 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. Gillian will be at the Portsmouth Bookfest.
March
11 March, 2.00pm at 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 at St Mary Redcliffe Lunch Club, Prewett Street, Bristol.
October
4 October, 7.00 pm to 9.0 pm at 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 at Chippenham Public Library, Timber Street, Chippenham, SN15 3EJ.
December
1 December, 2.00 pm at Melksham Community Campus, 27 Market Place, Melksham SN12 6ES.
12 December, 10.30 am till 1.30 pm at 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 at 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 at 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 at Probus Club, The White Hart Hotel. Salisbury, Maureen Armstrong will speak about the overlap of memoir with fiction with excerpts from Bombweed.
2023
January
28 January at 11.00 am at Muswell Hill Bookshop, Gillian will sign copies of her new children’s book.
February
24 February, from 1.00 pm on 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 at Rye Bookshop, High St · 01797 227442. Gillian will be signing her new book Kissed to Death.
16 September at Waterstones Tenterden, 47 High Street, Tenterden, Kent TN30 6BJ. Gillian will be signing her new book Kissed to Death.
October
19 October 6.0 pm till 8.0 pm 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 at Arvon at Totleigh Barton writers week.
2024
February
21 February. Gillian will be 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 at Chippenham Lions.
8 June at Southwick D Day Revival Festival.
19 June at Hugh Todd’s Book Launch at Stoke Newington Bookshop.
24 July. Reading at the ‘Speaking Volumes’ at Southsea.
September
4 September. at Clifton Rotarians. Lunch with Maureen Armstrong, welcomed by the President, Jay.
7 September, 2.30 pm at 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. Gillian will be reading from Kissed to Death at the ‘Writers Reading’ zoom event.
November
17 November at he PAC all day book event at Apex Gallery, Gunwharfe Quays,Southsea.