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AUTHOR TALK: BEN AARONOVITCH
Sat 22 Nov
|Chatham Library
An audience with the best-selling author of the ‘Rivers Of London’ series, Ben Aaronovitch. DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES - THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED.


Time & Location
22 Nov 2025, 14:00 – 15:00
Chatham Library, Riverside Gdns, Chatham ME4 4SL, UK
About the event
An audience with the best-selling author of the ‘Rivers of London’ series, who will talk about his latest instalment of the series, ‘Stone & Sky’, plus answer your questions. Ben is an incredibly entertaining speaker and will be talking about his life of adventures in Science Fiction.
BEN AARONOVITCH was born and raised in London. Ben had the sort of unrelentingly uninteresting childhood that drives a person to drink or Science Fiction. The latter proved useful in his early career when he wrote for Doctor Who (before it was fashionable), Casualty and the cheapest soap opera ever made – Jupiter Moon.
Alas his career floundered in the late 1990s and he was forced to go out and work for living. It was while running the Crime and Science Fiction sections at the Covent Garden branch of Waterstones that he conceived the notion of writing novels instead. Thus was the…