Anticipating bookish high spirits

Meeting and greeting 'new blood'

Leading reading groupie Dawn Barnes kicks off proceedings

Elanor Dymott reads from Every Contact Leaves a Trace

Alexia Casale fascinates by speaking about writing and dyslexia

Compère Lewis Harrison-Barker and They Came With Outer Script cast

A packed house at The Green Man

Amy Bird makes Bookstock history reading from her iPad

Brilliant, noir-ish impov from the Outer Script cast

Helen Smith rounds off the evening on a perfect note

Black Sabbath fan Terry Grimwood creeps us out with a gory reading from Axe

The heroic Cheryl serves drinks faster than this camera can capture!

Side-splitting storytelling mash-up from the They Came With Outer Script cast

The Bookstock pumpkin guards the bar

The drinks flow at the friendliest literary night in North London

Seki Lynch delivers some powerful poetry (and advice from his Dad)

Lane Ashfeldt returns with her Saltwater collection

William Ryan autographs copies of his Korolev books

Reader meet author

The Bookstock audience

Writers William Ryan and Liz Harris in the signing area

Ben Crystal seizes back Shakespeare for the rest of us

Andrew Byrne - banking's loss is Bookstock's gain

Our compère and philosopher for the night Dave Chawner

T.D. Griggs delivers a passionate polemic about the publishing industry

Ruby Soames tries to convince the audience her novel isn't autobiographical

An energetic Ben Crystal clearly had three Shredded Wheat that morning

Keith Kahn-Harris and his glamorous assistant Dave on PowerPoint

The Bookstock amp goes up to 11

Compère Lewis Harrison-Barker encourages some Hallowe'en puns

Debut author to watch Hayley Webster

Hayley signs copies of Jar Baby

The Bookstock nerve centre keeps time

Bobby Nayyar reads a naughty bit from West of no East

Christopher Fowler unnerves us at Hallowe'en with Uncle Alan

The Bookstock audience

Sheela, Helena and Colin share the literary love

Surprisingly just one copy of 50 Shades of Grey left in the Bookswap

Fab stand-up from compère Nick Dixon

Trinidadian tales from Elspeth Duncan

Michael Nath gives us a glimpse of his new novel

The brilliantly entertaining Sophia Blackwell

Nick fills while the search begins for Michael Nath

The lovely Essie Fox shares the story behind the Somnambulist

50 passionate readers squeezed into the basement of The College Arms

Compere Lewis Rae introduces procedings

A new venue in Clerkenwell's Yorkshire Grey

Top up drinks time

Graham Pears on why you should never tattoo your head in front of a mirror

Book group fave Ross Raisin tests a Glaswegian accent

Anna Stothard shares what inspired The Pink Hotel

A commanding performance from Patrick Gooch

The all new Bookstock signing area

Trilby Kent juxtaposes Ceylon and Belgium

LiTTLe MACHiNe punk up Philip Larkin...

...then launch into a Lord Byron

Our brilliant, engaged and appreciative Bookstock audience

Prizes from Bookhugger and the Business Bookshop

Compere Tony Dunn tells a smoking joke...

...and Stuart Evers tells a smoking story

"Poetry for grown ups" from Katy Evans-Bush

Jan Van Mersbergen takes us to Paloma...

...and Trevor Bloom takes us to 476 AD

Bryony Doran (not liking her new cover!)

Lyndsay Russell rails against 'size zero' media obsession

Gritty Tyneside crime from Howard Lynksey

The Bookswap is back

Lane Ashfeldt

Michael Nath

Tom Macaulay

Breaktime

The lovely Bookstock audience

The Bookstock Bookswap

Kindly donated magazines

Richard Asplin

The return of Bobby & Margaret

Lee Webber

Compere Tony Dunn

Richard Asplin

The signing area

Bookstock Breaktime

The lovely Bookstock audience

Bookstock's Angela grabs a celebratory drink

Michael Nath's sea shanty support (left)

Welcome to Bookstock

Lee Webber

Nikki Dudley

Tony Dunn

The Punk and the Princess

Lily Hyde

Bilal Ghafoor

Leigh Russell

Penny Rudge

Rick Senley