Wheatsheaf Pub, Bloomsbury, London

Ian Pople is reading with Susan Grindley and others, as part of a Rack Press contribution to Soho Welsh, Riotous Rhondda and The Wild West

Cardiff University lecturer Dr Tomos Owen, author of Real Bloomsbury Nicholas Murray, and writer Lewis Davies explore Welsh writers and their London lives, walking in the footsteps of cult gothic horror writer Arthur Machen, revered short story writer Rhys Davies, founding editor of the Everyman’s Library series Ernest Rhys and novelist Dorothy Edwards.

The tour includes readings and short talks in the streets and pubs of Soho and Fitzrovia, and finishes at The Wheatsheaf – a former haunt of Dylan Thomas, Augustus John and George Orwell.

12.00 noon – 3.00 pm (walk); 3.30pm – 5.30 pm (reading), £15 (£13) – walk & reading; £7 (£6) – reading only. In partnership with Parthian Books.