Well, what a year 2012 has been.  The Silver Jubilee, the Olympics and more importantly (to us anyway) the launch of the London Literary Pub Crawl.  It's because we are a not-for-profit charity with no budget that the critical and audience acclaim we've received early on has been so important and so crucial... and so moving.  Partly inspired by the Olympics coming to London, I felt a desire - perhaps a passion - to share what I'd found out about the struggle some of the worlds most famous wri...

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It's such a privilege to be working on this tour, although quite scary in some ways. Although we started in July, for the Olympics - not that the Olympics had any relevance, it just seemed like a good time to start - and we had a brilliant write-up in The Guardian, we've already changed quite a lot. In fact I'm re-writing the whole thing. And it comes with some sense of responsibility. I've just written one of the final scenes with Virginia Woolf and realise that apart from the difficulty of ...
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The London Olympics have been special, we think here at Maverick's Pub Crawl Towers. The writer of the tour, Nick Hennegan, is actually from Birmingham and shared much of the rest of the countrys cynicism about the value for money of the games and its London focus. Most Olympic cities are, as we know, left with a big cash deficit after the games move on. But on reflection, this sporting summer has been about more than just money. The sight and sounds of hundreds of athletes from around the wo...
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