Are you ready for a mouthful... Of plum?

To clarify this proposition, Plum is an evening of live fiction and DJs brought to you by writers Luke Williams and Natasha Soobramanien, at the Old Queens Head in Islington.

The quarterly event has been running since 2002 with selected wordsmiths reading their own material to a literary inclined audience.

This time there is a decidedly international flavour with poems from Helon Habila, the Caine Prize winner and author of 'Waiting for an Angel', winner of commonwealth prize for best first novel, in the African region.

And from the other side of the atlas will be Brooke Biaz reading from his novel in stories, 'Small Maps of the World', which bagged him a National Book Council award for new fiction in Oz.

Your senses will be further stimulated by Le Couteau Jaune's performance of soundscape and spoken words; your guess is as good as mine for what this will entail...

May all sound a bit 'heavy' for a night out, but when was the last time you went along to, or participated in a reading? That's what I thought.