Liars' League (London)

For the 10th anniversary of our Women & Girls theme (celebrating stories written & read by women) we commemorate 50 years since the death of Agatha Christie, the Grande Dame of Crime with a Murder & Mischief theme. Spanning the globe from New Delhi to the Everglades, via the Italian Alps & the cosy-crime hotspot of Littlehamlet we offer espionage, adultery, violence, blackmail, theft, flagrant violation of Golf Club rules & naturally, heaps of homicide! ORDER OF STORIES: “How to Get Your Man Gone” by Rebecca Marcel, read by Katy Darby “Patience & Other Questionable Virtues” by JA Logwood read by Claire Lacey “An Inconvenient Woodcutter” by S.A. Greene, read by Margaret Ashley INFAMOUS CRIME THEMED INTERVAL BOOK QUIZ - PLAY ALONG! “Death in the Dolomites” by Mina Ma, read by Clareine Cronin “A Frightfully Awkward Murder” by Amy Eddings, read by Miranda Harrison

A white-knuckle fictional rollercoaster ride through deadly dives & perilous plane-trips, featuring aerial royalty, mafia-style building managers & the head of Oliver Cromwell in a biscuit tin. STORY LINE-UP for ABOVE & BELOW “Group Trip” by Stacey Kennedy, read by Gloria Sanders "The One-Man Republic of Stairwell B” by Adam Porkolab, read by Dan Starkey “Headhunting” by David McGrath, read by the Author *INFAMOUS INTERVAL BOOK QUIZ “Blood is Thicker than Water” by Janet Bowstead, read by Thomas Donnan “Soot & Spirit” by Kate Griffiths-Lambeth, read by Silas Hawkins

In April our professional actors read a a trick-hand of devilishly deceiving stories on our twistiest theme yet, ILLUSION & CONFUSION, featuring deluded cultists, Kafka-esque bureaucracies, hi-tech skinsuits, self-authoring metafictions, hallucinating parrots, ghost heists & more … ILLUSION & CONFUSION - STORY RUNNING ORDER “The Ghost who Robs Banks” by Tom O’Brien *NEW AUTHOR* read by Jeremiah O’Connor “The Red Tapeworm” by Matt Bianca *NEW AUTHOR* read by Rose Biggin “Dagon, Lord of the Oceans” by Ray Chanteur, read by Noah Lukehurst *NEW AUTHOR & ACTOR* INTEVAL & PLAY ALONG BOOK QUIZ! “The Parrots of Chelm” by Mira Singer *NEW AUTHOR* read by Carrie Cohen “The Future’s Already Here It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed” by Callum Jacobs read by Tony Bell Directed, recorded & edited by Katy Darby, presented by Liam Hogan

Love is in the air, because in February our actors read stories of seduction shopping-lists, awkward Antarctic yearning, divorce dates, hooking up with Celtic gods, accidental-on-purpose murder, & devotion that transcends time … Lust & loss, old & new love, true love & blue love: we’re here for it, & now you are too! EX & NEXT STORIES: RUNNING ORDER “A Cold Cup of Tea” by Rosaleen Lynch, read by Patsy Prince “King Marvin” by Grace McKenzie, read by Miranda Harrison “Valentine’s Day” by Lor Vanden, read by Jay Hunt INTERVAL & INFAMOUS BOOK QUIZ “The Notorious Debut of Lord Cerunincos” by Laurence Raphael Brothers, read by Jamie Laird “An Orderly List” by Kate Griffiths-Lambeth, read by Mia Nuttgens “The Finnish for F*ck” by Jeff Wood, read by Jeremiah O’Connor

At our BLESSED & CURSED Christmas story special, Liars’ League proudly presented a five-course banquet of Scrooge-like subeditors, possessed baubles, love-torn teens, opium-addicts & a celebrity guest appearance by Prince Harry himself … & his second wife’s Essex crime family. BLESSED & CURSED Christmas Stories Running Order: 🔔 Clareine Cronin narrates Rhys Timson’s “The Ghost of Christmas Future Perfect”, in which a professional pedant gets shown the yellow card 🔔 Silas Hawkins portrays a magically cursed cuckold in Amy Ferguson’s “A Creature Stirs” 🔔 Aïsha Kent is a weary singleton who invites the upstairs teenager to Christmas dinner in Hannah Downes’s “Precious Cargo” INTERVAL & INFAMOUS FESTIVE BOOK QUIZ 🔔 David Mildon plays an opium-smoking Victorian sea-dog who stumbles across a cursed jewel in Alex Edwards’s “The Vauxhall Vagabond” 🔔 & Alex Woodhall is Prince Harry suffering through a truly excruciating Christmas Eve in Quintin Forrest’s “Christmas with the In-Laws”

The darkness is falling, the wind is rising, the moon glares in the cloud-smirched skies like a single dead eye - & our Halloween special of frightening fiction featured possessed doorbells, Russian skinwalkers, headless corpses, Polar terror, fearsome Irish mammies & the hi-tech house from actual Hell ... Listen if you dare! 🎃HAUNTED & HUNTED STORIES - RUNNING ORDER 🎃 “The Key” by Lily Mac NEW AUTHOR, read by Carrie Cohen “There is motion at your front door …” “The Bear-Skin” by David Klotzkin, read by Lin Sagovsky A boorish Russian count takes a bride and hunts a bear. Can either escape him? “So I take the bus up to Drogheda” by David McGrath, read by the author Living death in rural Louth from Ireland’s Poet Laureate of f*cked-upness *INTERVAL & TERRIFYING BOOK QUIZ* “Integrated” by Kate Griffiths-Lambeth NEW AUTHOR read by Gloria Sanders When tech wizards die, do their smart houses survive … somehow? “Magnitude” by Katty Pearce, read by Tim Larkfield An Arctic rescue expedition goes supernaturally awry. Like The Terror, but worse.

In Austen's 250th anniversary year, we celebrate her legacy with SIX themed tribute stories! Welcome the GenZ Bennet sisters, Lucia Thurston (the Girl They Couldn't Marry), a Georgian companion in love with her lady, a life recalled through Austen, Pride & Prejudice (& perimenopause) & the Great Darcy Drought of 2030. WOMEN & GIRLS X JANE AUSTEN RUNNING ORDER "Which Pride & Prejudice Character Are You?" by Sarah Courtauld, read by Katy Darby "To Keep You As My Own" by Hannah Allies Minford, read by Lucy Mabbit "Shots & Shamelessness" by Donna Tracy, read by Aisha Kent INTERVAL & INFAMOUS AUSTEN-THEMED BOOK QUIZ "Dictionary of Days" by Rosaleen Lynch, read by Margaret Ashley "Suitors & Suitability" by Amy Eddings, read by Claire Lacey "Abductions & Adaptations" by Lauren Van Schaik, read by Claire-Louise Amias Director & Host: Katy Darby

*LIVE EVENT RECORDING* Nobody loves you when you're DOWN & OUT - except Liars' League and our talented troupe of actors, who get their kicks from reading the hell out of brand new fiction ... On Tuesday 10th June The Phoenix's bustling basement bar, heard tales of subway blackouts, boxing knockouts, teacher burnouts, Victorian gamblers on the skids & downright doppelgangers. RUNNING ORDER OF STORIES for DOWN & OUT "Power Restored" by John Istel, read by Dan Starkey "The Other Holly Williams" by Hannah Noyce, read by Kim Scopes "The Replacement" by Neil James NEW AUTHOR, read by Oliver Yellop INTERVAL & INFAMOUS BOOK QUIZ "The Golden Hell" by Maria Kyle, read by Rose Biggin "War with Troy: Year 9, Period 4, Friday" by Brian Kelly, read by Matthew McAloone Host: Tim Aldrich Director/Audio Recording: Katy Darby

This April we took a chance, placed our bets, & reaped the reward of five new risk-taking tales from our winning authors, featuring fugitive lovers, train heists, theft on the Riviera (1920s-style), London burnout & competitive Lego - PLUS an exclusive flash fiction from host Liam Hogan to celebrate the publication of his new short story collection, A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FUTURE.  RUNNING ORDER for RISK & REWARD "Certitude" by Scott Tierney - read by Silas Hawkins  "Pilgrim's Trail" by Cecilia Maddison new author - read by Rose Biggin "Everybody Wants London" by Alix Owen - read by Ray Newe INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ "Brick by Brick" by MJ Lee - read by Nathan Unthank "A Game of Musical Souls" by Liam Hogan - read by Tony Bell (Longlist for Writers' & Artists' Competition 2025) "Pearl Onions" by Alex Edwards new author - read by Dan Starkey

For Valentine's, our adorable actors read six brand-new original short stories of love, lust & losing it - featuring medical dating, sexual surveillance, spies in (forbidden) love, banging in bookshops, tomcatting around & 24 ways to leave your lover. Heart's desire or hearts on fire, fall in love with our fiction ... DESIRE & DESPAIR STORIES: RUNNING ORDER "Gorgeous" by Al Crow, read by Patsy Prince "A Covert Affair" by Bronia Flett, read by David Vickery "24 Ways to Leave your Lover" by Andreas Paraskevaides, read by Carrie Cohen *INTERVAL & BOOK QUIZ* "We Have Nothing to Hide" by Jennifer Gaboury, read by Clareine Cronin "He Brings me Birds" by Cheryl Powell, read by Grace Cookey-Gam "By Appointment" by Lauren Van Schaik, read by Lizzie Muncey Directed, hosted & recorded by Katy Darby