I’m travelling about for Dying Matters Week 2018, on a mini Book Tour.

Looking forward to lots of interesting conversations with readers, potential readers, palliative care colleagues and staff of Waterstones and Blackwells book shops who are supporting my book tour May 14th – 19th for Dying Matters Week.

Monday May 14th: Royal Devon & Exeter Hospitals, 1pm and 3pm – more info here

Tuesday May 15th: Waterstones Exeter Roman Gate, 6.30pm – more info here

Wednesday May 16th: St Mary’s University Twickenham, Senior Common Room, 2 – 3.30pm.

(No booking required, all welcome, further information from trevor.stammers@stmarys.ac.uk)

Wednesday May 16th: University of Kent, Canterbury, 6.45pm, with Pilgrims Hospices. More information here 

Thursday May 17th: Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, 5.30pm, as guest of Severn Hospice. More information here

Friday May 18th: James Cook University Hospital, Teesside – Study Day

Saturday May 19th: Waterstones, Greys Monument, Newcastle upon Tyne, 7pm. More information here

Come and join us.

I’ll be talking about With the End in Mind, and matters of living and dying, at The Stratford Literary Festival on Friday 27th April at 6pm.

Sadly, Greg won’t be able to make it.

I know – I’m gutted, too.

Update: we had a Skype link to LA, so no hearts were broken and Greg was his usual, magnificent self. Do read his thought-provoking book, ‘Not That Kind of Love.’

It was such a pleasure to meet and join a panel alongside Richard Holloway (Waiting for the Last Bus) and Kevin Toolis (My Father’s Wake) at The Sage, Gateshead. Our cheerful chairman, Phillip Dodd, kept us all in line as we discussed matters of living and dying. Great questions from the audience of our sell-out session, too – hear the broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 5th April 2018, then on the i-player.

Free Thinking Festival: Death Comes to Us All, 10th February 2018

I had the pleasure of speaking to an attentive and responsive audience at Glasgow’s book festival, Aye Write, in March. Sara Davies, our Chairperson, had read the book closely and asked really great questions, as well as involving the audience.

Amongst the audience was Barbara Chalmers, founder of Final Fling UK, a woman on a mission to help us all to prepare in very practical ways for the inconvenient interruption of death.

Here’s Barbara’s blog post about the session: do follow the links to explore the rest of Final Fling’s useful resources.