Feb 26 2012: Alison Pick and Jake Wallis Simons, Jewish Book Week 

2pm, Sunday 26th February 2012  |  Hall 2, King’s Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG  |  £9.50  |  Bookings and more details here  |  Box Office 020 7520 1490

Here are two remarkable new novels which take known themes and transport the reader intimately and powerfully into new territory. Alison Pick’s Far to Go strongly combines the shrewd hindsight of a contemporary academic with the narrative of the Czech Bauer family in 1938. Rosa, the young traveller in The English German Girl by Jake Wallis Simons, is 15, and upon leaving Berlin is faced with the tremendous burden of securing papers to help the rest of her family escape.

The event will be chaired by Claire Armistead, Literary Editor of the Guardian. In association with Youth Aliyah Child Rescue

March 11 2012: King’s Lynn Literature Festival, East Anglia

11am, Sunday 11th March 2012  |  Town Hall, Saturday Market Place, King’s Lynn  |  £8.50  |  Bookings and more details here  |  Box Office 01553 691661

Jake will be reading from his new book, The Pure, giving a talk and taking questions from the floor. Other speakers over the weekend include DJ Taylor and Carol Birch.