Featured this meeting: Robert Cohen gave a reading from his newly published novel Architecture for Beginners – two childhood friends reunited and an architect is drawn into a retired football star’s world. He then discussed how the book came to be, inspired by personal experience…

Robert will be guesting at the Kemp Town bookshop and appearing in Who Is Number One in the May Fringe, then in The Madness of King George at Brighton Open Air Theatre in July.

Thomas discussed his workshop on Writing Monologue for Hastings Writers Group at the Regency Rooms.

Thomas then led the conversation round ‘how do you create your characters?’ involving writers, actors and drama makers.