Book Slam moves to Neighbourhood

Book Slam is the brainchild of Ben Watt and Patrick Neate. As one half of Everything But The Girl, Ben is a sometime pop superstar, full time DJ-producer and occasional mogul. Patrick is a prize-winning author, poet and all-round renaissance bloke.

Their intention was simple: create a regular literary event in London that doesn't make sane people want to stab themselves with rusty cutlery. Hence the Book Slam recipe of novelists, poets, singer-songwriters and the like doing their thing in bite-sized canapés of taste punctuated by mujik and dlinking. Book Slam has attracted writers Nick Hornby, Monica Ali, Hari Kunzru and Jake Arnott.

The last Book Slam of 2006 will take place on Thursday, 30th November @ Neighbourhood, 12 Aclam Rd, W10. Guests include: DBC PIERRE, MAN Booker prize-winning author of "Vernon God Little" and "Ludmila's Broken English"; PLAN B: '... the most exciting MC this city has produced' - Time Out.