Getting geeky this summer

Now that the busy publicity tour for Geek Nation is over and life is back to normal, I can look forward to the summer... and nothing says summer like a good old British literature festival. I was at the Asia House Festival in London last month, and next month I'm going to be speaking at The Telegraph Ways with Words event at Dartington Hall (above) near Totnes in Devon. The organisers have imaginatively titled my talk Curry and Chips (get it? like silicon chips?). Tickets are £9, which is total bargain because I'll be giving the audience a rip-roaring tour through cutting-edge India, which will both astonish and educate. So if you're free on Sunday 17th July, get yourself down to the south-west and book a place before it sells out.

In August I'll be in Edinburgh, one of my favourite cities in the world, for the International Books Festival. I'm lucky to be signed up to two events there, so you really have no excuse for not meeting me. The first, on Saturday 20th August, is a discussion about modern India with the acclaimed author, Siddhartha Deb. And the second, on Sunday 21st August, is a debate about Scotland's scientific role in a changing world, with Keith Campbell, the embryologist in the Scotland-based team that created Dolly the Sheep, and astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

Hope to see you, both of my blog readers, there. And thanks for all the lovely emails about the book... you guys rock. If you'd like to be kept up to date with the latest Geek Nation news, please sign up to the Facebook group (385 fans and counting!).