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Best-selling author Martina Cole has cancelled her book signing scheduled to start at 12.30pm today due to "unforseen circumstances".

Anyone who has reserved a book should contact Waterstone's in Jubilee Place mall on 020 7719 0688.

A clutch of star names are heading to Canary Wharf to flog their latest books.

Troubled football superstar Paul Gascoigne is likely to be the biggest draw as he launches Glorious: My World, Football and Me detailing the highs and lows of his playing career. He will be at Waterstone's in Jubilee Place mall on October 13.

STAGE
The Graft
Theatre Royal Stratford East
3/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Buckle up and brace yourself. It's going to be a bumpy ride in Martina Cole's sordid tale of secret, lies and violence.

Queen of crime writing Martina Cole tells it like it is. And as I talk to her about the adaptation of her novel The Graft for the stage at Theatre Royal Stratford East, she tells me in her gravely Essex tones: "The crime world doesn't frighten me - if people get on my nerves I tell them I will kill them - and they believe me."

Top crime author Martina Cole is on a mission to help ensure Theatre Royal Stratford East survives un-scathed as a cultural gem.

She said: "I believe that theatres should remain at the heart of the community. Funding for our libraries is in jeopardy and I'm worried that our theatres are going to die out too."

STAGE
Two Women
Theatre Royal Stratford East
3/5

IN A NUTSHELL
In a bruising interpretation of a Martina Cole novel, gutsy East End housewife Sue Dalston faces a life in jail for murdering her abusive husband.