The golden days of Autumn are here and we have some solid gold events coming up.  Talk about something for everyone ...

Emma Darwin is busy this month. On Thursday 8th October she's appearing at the Wimbledon Book Festival where she'll be talking to Jayne Buxton about A Secret Alchemy and The Mathematics of Love. On Thursday 15th October, at the Guildford Book Festival, she and Maeve Haran will be discussing how writers turn real history into modern fiction, with Elizabeth Buchan. Emma has a special affection for the Guildford Festival, because it was when The Mathematics of Love was shortlisted for their First Novel Award that she first realised that people other than her agent and her editor thought she’d written something worth reading.

To add to the above, we at Bookarazzi are particularly excited this month following the announcement that A Secret Alchemy is one of The Times's Top 50 Paperbacks of 2009.

Elizabeth Baines' new novel Too Many Magpies is published by Salt Publishing on Oct 1st, and she will be reading from it at Northern Salt, a Manchester Literature Festival event on Sunday 18th October, 3-4 pm. at the Whitworth Art Gallery. (A free event.) Three other Salt authors, short-story writers Robert Graham and Mark Illis and poet John Siddique, will also read at the event.

Jessica Ruston's debut novel, LUXURY, is published on 15th October.
'Luxury oozes glamour, wealth and scandal - a fantastic debut. *****' says Company magazine.

Jessica will be talking about her book at the Wimbledon Bookfest on Monday 5th October, with Penny Vincenzi and Jojo Moyes . She will also be giving a talk at the London Writers' Club on Tuesday 13th October about narrative, structure, story and plot.

Caroline Rance is appearing at Chester Literature Festival on Mon 12 October, 1pm-2pm at Oddfellow's, Lower Bridge Street. Caroline will be talking about her debut historical novel, Kill-Grief, which is set in Chester in the 18th century. Caroline Smailes will be appearing the following day.

Nicola Monaghan is featured on the Write Lion Podcast  coming out beginning October and will also be appearing at the Left Lion Circus Extravaganza on 3rd October - exact time and venue tbc.  See the Left Lion site for details.  She will also read from her work at The Flying Goose cafe in Beeston, 7:30pm on 20th October.

On October 15th, Greg Stekelman aka The Man Who Fell Asleep will be reading from his book, followed by a Q+A and some booze, at Bou Tea, a cafe in Covent Garden. You can see photos of the last event here.

And how exciting is this???   Brian Clegg won the IVCA Clarion Award for books at a ceremony in London's British Film Instute on Friday 25th September. Yes, you read that right.  He WON!

The Clarion Awards are for media promoting CSR, sustainable development, social inclusion and ethical debate. According to the judges, Brian's Ecologic 'brings a clarity of thought, economic focus and psychological understanding to expose the woolly thinking, misleading statements and propaganda which undermine the genuine requirements for sustainable environmentalism.'

It's unlikely you'll have any spare time after all the above, but just in case, details of the other literary festivals happening this month are here.