...Carol Ann Duffy at the Goeth Institut, Exhibition Road, 50 Princes Gate, London SW7, at 7pm on Wednesday 13 December, call 020 7 405 0338.... and on Thursday 14 December, Jeanette Winterson and Ali Smith read Christmas tales at an event organised by/for oxfam, so although it's free, you'll probably have to cough up somehow or other. Oxfam Books, 8pm, 12 Bloomsbury St, London WC1. 020 7637 4610.

Thanks very much for posting this Anna. I'm going to try to go to the Carol Ann Duffy event.

Naomi

Hope you can get a ticket, what a lovely event, wish I could go- both sound cracking. Ooh- if you do go, why not write a review of it for WW?

Thanks for this, Anna.

I'm hoping to go to the Ali Smith/Jeanette Winterson one.