I have given readings in libraries and prisons, for book groups and schools, at colleges and clubs. See Contact for more details. I also teach creative writing.

Worms Grand Tour, Oct/Nov 06

Thanks to all of you who came to the readings, laughed in appropriate places and made it a highly enjoyable affair. Intellectual bookshop chat, pub frolics, cosy cafe chocolate, library literariness and elegance at the ESU.

It's a great pleasure to hear specific reactions: people liked that bit where we find out about the Professor; one of you loves Mme Skelton; the cricket jokes; the Groucho Marx joke ... so keep those critiques coming. I can promise Ruth will be in the next one, but I can make no promises about who will die and who won't.


You can hear Noel and myself reading on Myspace

The tour culminated beautifully with a return to Edinburgh on 9th November, Edward VII's birthday and the first and last day of the book, when I was asked if I'd noticed the apocalyptic overtones of the date. (I had, but not till late in the writing process; should have lied, shouldn't I?)

Strange too to think of that chap arrested for plotting explosions beneath the Thames. We're all watching too much Spooks; but then doubtless so are the terrorists.

I do enjoy hearing from those of you who've come to readings or heard about the book some other way.

Thanks especially to Craig and Andy of Housmans Radical Bookshop, to Veronica and Neil at Filthy Macnastys, and to Cathi Unsworth and Joe McNally for contributing their talents to the success of our London Filthy London night. Thanks to Pan, Noel and Ron in Ealing, to Louise in Dunblane and to Suzanne and John at the ESU in Edinburgh.

Campbell Returns to Edinburgh, 7.30pm Thurs 9 Nov, ESU Gallery, 23 Atholl Crescent. 0131 229 1528

Readings from The Worms of Euston Square in the English Speaking Union's elegant Edinburgh gallery. Tickets are £3.50, but the wine is included.
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Worms Return Home, 7.30pm Wed 8 Nov, Dunblane Library 01786 823125  AllanL@stirling.gov.uk

I'm delighted to present a reading in my home town in that haven of literary englightenment, our local library. Thanks, Louise!
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Worms at Joe's, Wed 1 Nov - Joe’s Friends Cafe, Ealing.

mail@joesfriends.com    Joe's Friends (Click for Map)
Readings & dramatisations from The Worms of Euston Square. A new departure at a classy cafe. Coffee and chat, a cosy evening.
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LONDON FILTHY LONDON,8.30pm Tues 31 Oct - Filthy McNastys, 68 Amwell St. www.filthymacnastys.com  

With London Noir writers, Cathi Unsworth and Joe McNally.
Come along to the drinking hole of Lenin, Shane Macgowan and Johnny Depp for an evening of fine writing and filthy talk.
No, not that kind of filthy: the dark side of London, its people and places, that unmistakable atmosphere of diamonds and filth. Prepare yourself for murders in Camden, sabotage in the sewers, and incidents at Euston.
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LONDON LAUNCH, - Housmans Radical Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Rd

   A radical bookstore to launch the tale of elusive activist, Berwick Skelton, and the urchin gang, the Worms, unhoused by the advance of Progress, the Metropolitan Line, & the sewers.
   Marx & Dickens hover anxiously on the bookshelves, awaiting the apocalyptic denouement in the bowels beneath this very bookshop.
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