_Jake Wallis Simons is a novelist, journalist and broadcaster. His most recent novel, The English German Girl — about the Kindertransport — was published by Polygon in April 2011, and was one of eight winners of the Fiction Uncovered competition. Jake will be reading from his work as part of W&T's Holocaust Memorial Day 2012 Event - Vanished World, also featuring a talk by survivor Leslie Kleinman, exhibition and short film screening of work by artist Gitl Braun, and
readings by poet Eve Grubin.

Few novelists have written so intimately about a city in the way that Charles Dickens wrote about London. Dickens was drawn to the character of London itself, all aspects of the capital from the coaching inns of his early years to the taverns and watermen of the Thames; these were the constant cityscapes of his life and work. Based on five walks through central London, Peter Clark illuminates the settings of Dickens’s greatest works, his life, his journalism and his fiction. n this talk, Peter Clark will be focusing on the walk from Bermondsey to Holborn Circus, sharing highlights which feature in Dickens' all-time favourite Oliver Twist.

Award-winning, Booker-nominated author Paul Bailey, Betty Trask Prize 2007 winner and author Will Davis, poet Andra Simons, and author-poet-independent publisher Helen Sandler will lend their voices to a special event commemorating LGBT History Month. This event will also feature filmmaker Campbell X and artist Aliyahgator. With support from Southwark LGBT Network.