*** 2-3 September Guardian Masterclass on family history
*** 10 June Bishopsgate Institute intro to journalism
*** 20-21 May Guardian Masterclass on family history
*** 13 May Bishopsgate Institute Family history
*** 31 March-2 April Skyros at The Grange, Life Writing
*** 11 March Bishopsgate Institute, Writing Family History
*** 28-29 Jan and 4-5 March Guardian Masterclass on family history
*** 4-5 June Guardian Masterclass on writing family history
*** 14 May Bishopsgate Institute, Writing Family History
*** 12-13 Feb, 2022 Guardian Masterclass on writing family history
*** 23 Oct Writing Your Family History, Bishopsgate Institute
*** 22 Sep Family History workshop, Pen to Print Literary Festival
*** 16 Aug Life Writing at The Grange, Skyros on the Isle of Wight
*** 15 Aug How to your family history – Guardian Masterclass
*** 15 May Writing Your Family History at Bishopsgate Institute
*** 19 Jan – 2 March Life Writing at Bishopsgate Institute
*** 3 Nov – 8 Dec Life Writing at Bishopsgate Institute
*** 16-18 October Life Writing at The Grange, Isle of Wight
*** 15 September Life Writing at Bishopsgate Institute
*** 10-11 July – Writers’ Weekend Winchester – reading and workshop
*** 7 July – Online Life Writing at Bishopsgate Institute
*** 24 June – Second Generation Network – talk and workshop
*** 12 May – Bishopsgate Institute – Online Life Writing (6 weeks)
*** 13 March Wiener Library, Second Generation Network – workshop
*** 2 February ’20 Guardian Masterclass – writing family history
The Guardian – Christmas courses to consider… including writing family history
*** 14 January – Life Writing at Bishopsgate Institute
*** 15-17 November Life Writing, The Grange, Isle of Wight
*** 9 November Family History Writing Course – Angel, Islington
*** 14, 21, 28 September Pen To Print international life stories workshops
*** After-dinner speaker–Association of Genealogists & Researchers in Archives
*** 1 September – 8 September Life Writing on Skyros
*** 4 August ’19 Guardian Masterclass – writing family history
*** 14 June Winchester Writers’ Festival – fiction workshop
*** Guardian blog on writing Scattered Ghosts and family history
*** 27 April – 4 May 2019 Life Writing Retreat in the heart of Andalusia
*** 3 February 2019 Guardian Masterclass on writing family history
*** Short story, ‘Remains’, on Shoes Or No Shoes, collaborative art project
*** I’m teaching a new one-day family history writing course
*** Facebook family history page
*** 21-23 September, Life Writing at The Grange, Isle of Wight
*** 1-8 September, Life Writing, Writers’ Lab, Skyros Centre
*** 5 August 2018 Guardian Masterclass on Family History
*** 4 February 2018 Guardian Masterclass on Family History
*** 2-9 September – Life Writing on Skyros
*** Geneva Writers Group 2017 – I’m a judge for this year’s non-fiction prize
*** 24-26 February – Life Writing at The Grange, Isle of Wight
*** 11-12 February 2017, Guardian Masterclass on Family History
*** 13 December – A Country of Refuge, House of Commons event to raise awareness – article in The Bookseller
*** Life Writing at Arvon, Totleigh Barton, week of 24 October, with Kapka Kassabova
*** Children of the Revolution – British writers of Hungarian origin – a discussion on 20 October, Monnet Room, Europe House, including Tibor Fischer, Monica Porter and me. A Hungarian Cultural Centre event
*** A Country of Refuge -an anthology of writings about asylum-seekers, edited by Lucy Popescu, launched in June 2016, with a contribution from me. Available from Amazon or Penguin
*** Life Writing – I’ll be teaching life writing on Skyros June 5-12 and Isle of Wight Sep 30- Oct 2
*** 20-21 February 2016, Guardian Masterclass on Family History
*** 5 December, Young Muslim Writers Award (I’m one of the judges)
*** Guardian blogspot – What we learned…
*** On teaching family history, IB Tauris blog
*** 12-13 September 2015, Guardian Masterclass on Family History
*** 4-5 July 2015, I’m teaching a Guardian Masterclass on Family History
*** 18-19 April 2015, I’m teaching a Guardian Masterclass on Family History
*** 20-22 February 2015, Limerick Literary Festival
*** 17-18 January 2015, I’m teaching a Guardian Masterclass on Family History
*** Guardian Family Section – a piece about writing family history
*** 19 November, Writers’ Centre, Goldsmiths, Uncovering Family Secrets
*** Scattered Ghosts longlisted for 2015 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize
*** 18-19 October, 2014, I’m teaching a Guardian Masterclass on Family History
*** 15 September, Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival – in conversation with historian Paula Kitching
*** An interview with Tibor Fischer on Central and Eastern European News
*** June 21, Yellow Star Houses, mapping the houses in Budapest in which Jews were forced to live in 1944.
– An extract from Scattered Ghosts relates to one of them.
– Yellow Star Houses – article in Central and Eastern European News
*** June 13, One Day in the City, London Literature at UCL – you tube video
*** May 25, The R Word – Racism in the 21st Century@ Lilian Baylis Studio
*** April 15, Alexandra Bookshop, Budapest, Holocaust Memorial Year
*** April, 2014, Hungarian edition of Scattered Ghosts, KUK
*** 30 March, Jewish Book Week on Tour @ Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society
*** 28 March, 2014, Oxford Literary Festival
*** The Wife of a Man Who – new 2014 English Kindle version here
*** 3 March, 2014, Jewish Book Week on Tour @ Bournemouth Central Library
*** 15-16 Feb, 2014, I’m teaching a Guardian Masterclass on Family History
*** An interview with me on 26, the inspirational organisation for writers.
*** 10 December 2013 – In Conversation @ Second Generation Network
*** 23 October St John’s Wood Library, 6pm
*** 19 October Swiss Cottage Library, 3pm
*** 17 October Bloomsbury Festival @ Wiener Library – in discussion with novelist Eve Harris
*** Scattered Ghosts book launch, October 16, 6.30-8.30pm, @ Daunt Books, 112-114, Holland Park Avenue, W11
*** An interview with me by Veronika Reinige-Hahn in the Hungarian newspaper, Népszabadság
*** 26Norwich – I participated in a grand project involving Writers’ Centre Norwich that paired 26 writers with 26 other writers in England’s first city of literature. I contributed a piece about the pioneering oral historian George Ewart Evans.
*** Hooky Gear on Radio 4’s ‘A Good Read‘ with Lynne Truss and Diran Adebayo – July ’13
*** New Kindle editions of Curvy Lovebox, Crumple Zone and Hooky Gear are now available here….
*** Check out Stephen Thompson’s The Colverstone Review including contributions from me, Courttia Newland, James M. Wood, M.J Hyland, Myfanwy Fox and James Miller
*** Hard Truths, crime writer Tony Black‘s collection of interviews, including with me, Ian Rankin, Ken Bruen, Irvine Welsh, Andrew Vachss and many others, is now available: http://www.amazon.co.uk/kindle/dp/B00D48YST4