All events are at the bookshop, 35 Turnpike Lane.
Thursday 29th May - VERBAL DISCHARGE - NORTH (Spoken Word) - 7pm Doors.
Club Verbal Discharge takes the reigns at All Good Spoken Word night in All Good Bookshop. The finest readings of new writing known universe. Expect the usual madness. Full bar with keg beer flowing till late. Doors 7pm. Curtain at 7:30.
Tickets start from £5 depending on whether you are a performer (via another website.
FRIDAY 30th May - MAY BOOKSHOP SOCIAL - 6:30pm to 11:30pm
Late opening of the shop with a bar, chat & chill. Come meet other local folks and relax in the calm surroundings of the bookshop whilst having a very reasonably priced drink from our bar. FREE ENTRY
31st May to 30th June - ART: A SHAPE IN THE FOREST - HELEN MINNS
Soon in our gallery: recent works by Helen Minns.
Helen works across painting, drawing and printmaking. These recent works explore the relationship between landscape, memory and abstraction, inspired by daily walks through local nature reserves and urban woodlands, including Nunhead Cemetery and One Tree Hill.
Through observation and imagination Helen traces a journey between the natural and the invented world. Shapes and surfaces evolve through layering, improvisation and the quiet unpredictability of mark-making. The forest, in particular, has become a metaphor for the creative process itself - constantly shifting, shaped by the unseen, and alive with hidden energies.
These pieces capture something of the state: half-mapped, half-discovered, alive with gesture and texture. Rather than presenting finished landscapes, the work invites viewers into a space of becoming - a reflection of both the seen environment and the inner terrain of memory and imagination. Free.
Friday 6th June - Comedy Club - Doors 7pm for 7:30pm start
We are hosting a Comedy Club, on the 1st Friday of the month. The Comedy Club
show-cases some of the most exciting rising stars of London’s vibrant, contemporary circuit. Come & check out some of London’s emerging comedy talent, and experienced comics trying out new material!
Four great acts on the night with the evening hosted by Mike Lash,
Tickets start from £5 (EARLYBIRD) increasing gradually in price online nearer the date.
Tickets on the door on the night £10.
So buy online for cheaper tickets.
The line up:
Kathryn Mather
“Wickedly accomplished… a thrilling rhythm and seamless flow… and the gags come at such a relentless rate. Mather positively revels in the macabre with a playful zeal”
Rolling Stone UK
“A fantastic mix of dark humour and funny storytelling. The audience were crying”
Russell Kane
"She’s very impressive”
The Wee Review
Richard Stott
Known best for his appearances on Comedy Central and ITV2’s Stand Up Sketch Show, Richard found success bringing his take on the world to stage in stage shows such as Right Hand Man and Afterparty.
Winning critical acclaim for his style of anarchic storytelling peppered with razor sharp one liners, Richard has seen his jokes named in Top 10 Jokes Of The Fringe 2019 (Dave TV), 2022 (The Times), 2023 (The Guardian), and came runner-up in the Leicester Square Not So New Comedian of The Year Contest 2024.
Sarah Mills
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Sarah is a winner of the BAFTA Rocliffe award for TV Comedy and a Semi-Finalist in the Funny Women Stand Up Awards.
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On TV, Sarah has appeared on The Last Leg, Stand Up to Cancer and Rosie Jones' Disability Extravaganza.
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Sarah has written for Have I Got News for You (BBC2), Horrible Histories (CBBC), The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV2), Tom Gates (Sky Kids), Dodo (Sky Kids) and Channel 4's Nasty Neighbours and is currently in a writers room for a top secret project for Channel 4.
“She's very funny”
Dara Ó Briain
Richard Spalding
"Razor sharp, understated brilliance." Tom Ward
"My favourite comedian."
Eshaan Akbar
"He’s a very useful joke writer with an assured, club-ready confidence that already feels like a safe pair of hands."
Steve Bennett Chortle
Get your £5 earlybird TICKET. £10 on door.
Saturday 7th June - Storytelling / Launch / Workshop: STORYMAKER with Giles Abbott - 11am.
A family-friendly event. £5
Learn how to tell amazing stories by creating one live at this special workshop and launch event for Giles Abbott's new book STORYMAKER...
Teachers, parents – become captivating storytellers! Create new stories from solid foundations and the expertise of master storytellers! Road-tested over millennia!
Whether you’re a teacher, parent, guardian or family member, the need to engage with and entertain the youngsters you care for is universal. Modern life makes access to entertainment easy, but what if there was another way – one that truly strengthened the bonds between you? For generations, humanity has practised the art of storytelling – a skill that you too can learn, enabling you to create magical tales that will shape those listening for years to come. Perhaps it’s a group of restless children and you wish you could catch, hold and reward their attention? Perhaps it’s a long journey, or you want to get them off their screens? As you conjure a gripping story from thin air using the methods in this book, you’ll find that face-to-face engagement creates contentment, concentration and connection on your journey together through story.
GILES ABBOTT graduated from Oxford with an English degree and four years later, in 1998, he could not see to read or recognise faces. He has lost 80% vision in a few hours. After a year of serious struggle he encountered traditional storytelling - he didn’t need to see it written! He began learning the art of the storyteller and started working as such. By 2005 he had also qualified as a Voice Teacher (MAVS, CSSD) and in addition to storytelling he now works in drama schools in London and teaches international clients to access their best speaking voice. He is a Voice Artist, recording and even winning Gold Medals for his work. He also creates new storytelling shows from traditional and historical/biographical sources, and for the last twenty years has created a new touring show every two years. He loves all his work!
friday 13th JUNE - Book Launch: MORE NOTHING with Iris Colomb and Guests
7pm. £5.
Poets and performers montenegrofisher, Paul Ingram and Iris Colomb come together for a second celebration of Iris' first full-length collection Nothing Intensifies, recently published by Pamenar Press!
Iris Colomb is a poet, artist, and performer based in London. Her practice explores various relationships between visual and verbal forms of text through projects involving performance, book objects, improvisation and experimental translation. Iris' individual, collaborative, interactive, and durational performance works have been showcased across the UK as well as in German, Austrian, Romanian, Norwegian, French and Chilean events and festivals. Publications include pamphlets I'm Shocked (Bad Betty Press, 2018), just promise you won't write (Gang Press, 2019), Ridiculous Unlikely Attempt (Hesterglock Press, 2023) and Where do you begin in this (Ma Bibliotheque, 2024), as well as magazines and anthologies in the UK, Europe, and beyond. Her first full-length collection Nothing Intensifies is out with Pamenar Press this year. She is involved in a number of ongoing musical projects including text-sound duo [something's happening], meta-punk band Daylightbulb and trios TheThreeFeet and Small Print Drama.
montenegrofisher are Luna Montenegro and Adrian Fisher, poets and artists based in London collaborating in a fluid space of visual, physical and sonic research. Their work investigates ideas of locality and social transformation exploring the boundaries of human and non-human. Their work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries, poetry and film festivals, residencies, internet and radio. They have been published by Crater Press, Errant Bodies Berlin, diSONARE Mexico, Poem Atlas, Grapheme, Tripwire US, among other poetry and art journals. www.montenegrofisher.org
Paul Ingram is a poet and writer whose publications include Flat Earth (Contraband Books, 2018), Enemie Anonimous (Beir Bua Press, 2023) Index (Readymade Sound Poetry) (x0, 2023) and Duck (Larynx Press, 2025). He performs as part of the duo Soft Play (with Iris Colomb) and co-organizes the music, poetry and performance event Hard Work (with Ed Shipsey). His essays and reviews have appeared in PN Review, 3:AM Magazine, Tentacular, Dada/ Surrealism and Historical Materialism. He also contributed to the edited collections Critical Theory Today: On the Limits and Relevance of an Intellectual Tradition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and Music, the Avant-Garde, and Counterculture: Invisible Republics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
TICKETS
saturday 14th June - Book Launch: DOCTOR WHO - AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPANION ACTORS by DANA FOX
6.30pm. Free.
Join author Dana Fox and guests to celebrate the launch of his new book!
The Doctor wouldn’t be half the Time Lord they are, without some assistance. But how much do you know about the people who played the companions? This book is the first of its kind. It’s your comprehensive guide to the actors who have played Doctor Who companions over the years.
Inside, you will find biographies of every companion actor who has been in Doctor Who. There are complete chronologies of companion arrivals and departures through the show’s history, enriched with original interviews with some of the cast. As an encyclopaedia, it is packed with dates, details and knowledge, a valuable reference source for any Doctor Who fan.
As a guide, this book also offers a personal perspective on the show and explores what these talented, hard-working professionals brought to the show. The author traces its origins in 1963, through the ensuing decades, and takes you right up to the most recent serials. Doctor Who: An Encyclopaedia of Companion Actors is a testament to the actors and a meticulously-crafted love-letter to the show.
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