Booktalkbooktalkbook

14/05/2026

BookTalkBookTalkBook is coming back to The Hen & Chickens Theatre on Sunday 5th July for another show.
It's a parody of an author event which starts awkwardly, then digresses madly for 50 minutes of books, talks, talks about books and books about talks.
You kind of have to see it to get it.
And then see it again to really get it.
The brilliant Joanna Neary and I have performed it at Shakespeare & Company in Paris, The Bookseller Crow on the Hill and tons of other places since the first show in 2018.
Bonus! After a brief interval we'll also present a few short Works-in-Progress bits too.

BookTalkBookTalkBook
14.00
Sunday 5th July 2026
The Hen and Chickens Theatre Bar
109 St Paul's Rd
London N1 2NA
[email protected]

We've constantly SOLD OUT on previous occasions so book quickly and talk excitedly. . .

Tickets:
https://unrestrictedview.co.uk/events/booktalkbooktalkbook

18/03/2024

At 15.00 on Sunday 7th April 2024, the The Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar, Highbury is hosting a VERY SERIOUS literary event where two IMPORTANT authors will read from their novels, discuss their PRESTIGIOUS careers and sign copies of their HIGHLY-REGARDED works.
Either that or it will be a silly one-act performance piece from Joanna Neary and Ben Moor, combining awkwardness, card tricks and pettiness about how to do the washing up.
The latter, then.
This is a great chance to see BookTalkBookTalkBook before a show in Paris at Shakespeare & Company.
AND BONUS! After a short interval Jo and Ben are going to do brief previews of NEW MATERIAL - it's the first live outing of a bit of his new show All Things Now New Will One Day Be Ruins...
https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/.../booktalkbooktalkbook/

03/03/2023

Upcoming Literary Event Alert for Spring!
Jenny and Burton are pleased to be heading out to discuss their work again, with Tim asking some important questions.
These will all be as serious as the SOLD OUT shows at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, at The Constitutional in Farsley, and at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, where the very conventional event was somehow Shortlisted for Best Comedy at the 2021 Greater Manchester Fringe Festival.
Really, it's just two authors and a moderator talking about books.
Really and truly.

26th March
LAUGHARNE WEEKEND, Camarthenshire, Wales.

30th April
MACHYNLLETH COMEDY FESTIVAL, Powys, Wales

23rd May
HEN AND CHICKENS THEATRE BAR, Highbury Corner, London

All links can be found via linktr.ee/btbtb

16/09/2022

After their SOLD OUT run at at The Pleasance Courtyard during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Jenny and Burton (and Tim) are delighted to bring their very serious, not at all absurdly funny, author event to The Constitutional, Farsley on Friday 16th September 2022 as part of a whole evening of literature.
Copies of their extremely important novels will be on sale afterwards (we hope).
https://theconstitutional.co.uk/event/4650517/596891272/booktalkbooktalkbook-ink-slingers-launch-party

28/04/2022

Jenny and Burton have booked a couple of talks to talk books in July.
They (and moderator Tim Timminey) are going to be booktalking at The Hen and Chickens Pub Theatre in London's literary Highbury district on Saturday 16th July at 18.30 (Note early start time).
And then the very highbrow event has been booked for the Listening Post Stage at the booky and talky Latitude Festival, Henham Park Suffolk for the evening of Thursday 21st July.
Expect discussion of unfamiliar novels and an enquiry into washing up techniques.
BookTalkBookTalkBook was somehow Shortlisted for Best Comedy at the 2021 Greater Manchester Fringe Festival, even though, as we've constantly affirmed, it is an entirely normal author event with two serious and real writers talking about their pretty dry and serious novels in utmost seriousness.

https://www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/booktalkbooktalkbook-joanna-neary-ben-moor/

https://www.latitudefestival.com/line-up/

17/09/2021

17/09/2021

Jenny and Burton's book event is all set for Saturday 25th September at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation as part of the 2021 Greater Manchester Fringe Festival.
Here's another short film to encourage all to attend - especially Tim Timminey.
Illustrations by Joanna Neary.
Music by Pad Mclean.
https://manchester.ssboxoffice.com/events/booktalkbooktalkbook/

08/09/2021

Jenny and Burton are on the road this autumn with their book event moderated by Tim Timminey.
Such is the life of an author!
There's now an online trailer and you can go to linktr.ee/btbtb for links to the dates there too.

14.00 SATURDAY 25th SEPTEMBER 2021
INTERNATIONAL ANTHONY BURGESS FOUNDATION
3 Cambridge Street, Manchester M1 5BY
As part of the 2021 Greater Manchester Fringe Festival

14.30 SUNDAY 26th SEPTEMBER 2021
HEN & CHICKENS THEATRE BAR
109 St Paul's Road, London N1 2NA

19.00 SATURDAY 23rd OCTOBER 2021
THEATRE @ 41 MONKGATE
41 Monkgate, York YO31 7PB

Described online as “an awkward joy,” “an extraordinary piece of work by all concerned,” and “a mandatory booking at every book festival in the country,” please book now for a very different event full of books and talks and books and talks and books.

Poster Design by Stephany Ungless
Photograph by Natalie Shaw



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