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This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday, 25th May from 7pm-8pm online via Zoom. £10.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. This month, we are reading Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes! The book can be delivered directly to you (please add your shipping address and tick the box for shipping) or you can collect it in store free of charge. You can purchase a ticket and book here.

If you already own a copy of the book, you can purchase a ticket without the book for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here.

For those unable to afford a book or ticket at present, we have a limited amount of complimentary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.info or call 07597365380.

One of our booksellers will lead the book club, and the group will be split up into smaller groups in breakout rooms to discuss the questions. A Zoom link will be emailed to ticketholders one week prior to the event starting.

We always ask that you could be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it.

Please get in touch if you have any questions!

 

This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday, 25th May from 2pm-3pm in store. £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. This month, we are reading Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes! The book can be delivered directly to you (please add your shipping address and tick the box for shipping) or you can collect it in store free of charge. You can purchase a ticket and book here.

If you already own a copy of the book, you can purchase a ticket without the book for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here.

For those unable to afford a book or ticket at present, we have a limited amount of complimentary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.info or call 07597365380.

One of our booksellers will lead the book club, and the group will be split up into smaller groups to discuss the questions.

We always ask that you could be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it.

Please get in touch if you have any questions!

This session of The Book Club will take place on Tuesday, 23rd May from 5:45pm-7:15pm in store, for a 6pm start. £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. This month, we are reading Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes! The book can be delivered directly to you (please add your shipping address and tick the box for shipping) or you can collect it in store free of charge. You can buy a book and ticket here.

If you already own a copy of the book, you can purchase a ticket without the book for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here.

For those unable to afford a book or ticket at present, we have a limited amount of complimentary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.info or call 07597365380.

One of our booksellers will lead the book club, and the group will be split up into smaller groups to discuss the questions.

We always ask that you could be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it.

Please get in touch if you have any questions!

Join us for a wonderful evening with award winning journalist and podcaster Daisy Buchanan to discuss her addictive new book, Limelight. Expect lively conversation with laughter and discussions on sisterhood and sexuality in the modern age.

This event will take place in store at House of Books & Friends on Monday, 12th June from 6:30-7:30pm.

About Limelight

Frankie has a love-hate relationship with the spotlight. She secretly craves attention, but she is ashamed of that craving. And after a lifetime of comparison to her perfect sister Bean, she has never felt more invisible. She only ever feels seen when she uploads risqué photos to her small community of online fans. She creates a new her: confident, sexy and utterly unrecognisable from the real Frankie.

Then the worst happens. Bean is diagnosed with cancer. While Frankie wants to fill the freezer with home cooked food, her mother decides she knows better and somehow launches a nationwide cancer fundraiser, with Frankie as the supportive-sister-spokesmodel. Inevitability, her account is found. Now everyone has their eyes on Frankie.

With her family no longer speaking to her, Frankie flounders in her newfound notoriety. Feminists and misogynists rage at her online, while she attracts hundreds of new subscribers. Whether they’re demanding apologies or expecting an empowering call to arms, everyone wants Frankie to explain herself. But how can she explain what she barely understands?

Limelight is a story about sisterhood, sexuality, and self-esteem. It’s about how we cope with living in a world which constantly tells us who we are. What happens when we stop listening and start paying attention to who we need to become?

Tickets

Click here to buy a ticket and a copy of the book for £16.99

Click here to buy a ticket only (which can be redeemed against a copy on the book on the evening) for £5.

There are a limited amount of tickets available for those unable to afford one at present. To be considered, please contact the store directly on bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.info or call 07597365380.

We’re thrilled to welcome Will Dean to House of Books & Friends to talk about his new novel, The Last Passenger! We are excited to announce that Will will be in conversation with author Rob Parker.

This event will take place on Monday, 15th May from 6:30-7:30 in store at House of Books & Friends.

About The Last Passenger

The Last Passenger is a high-octane, extremely addictive, ambitious and cinematic thriller with a wholly unique setting – perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and Gillian McAllister.

The premise is a simple but chilling one – Cas is on a luxury cruise ship with her boyfriend Pete. On the first morning of her journey, she wakes to find Pete is not beside her in bed. Slipping out of her cabin, she is confronted with the impossible and heart-stopping fact that she is completely alone on the ship, in the middle of the ocean.

Tickets
Click here to buy a ticket and copy of the book: £20
Click here to buy a ticket only, but redeemable against a copy of the book: £5

There are a limited amount of tickets available for those unable to afford one at present. To be considered, please contact the store directly on bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.info or call 07597365380.

 

This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday, 27th April from 2pm-3pm in store. £8.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. This month, we are reading I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait! The book can be delivered directly to you (please add your shipping address and tick the box for shipping) or you can collect it in store free of charge. You can purchase a ticket and book here.

If you already own a copy of the book, you can purchase a ticket without the book for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here.

For those unable to afford a book or ticket at present, we have a limited amount of complimentary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.info or call 07597365380.

One of our booksellers will lead the book club, and the group will be split up into smaller groups to discuss the questions.

We always ask that you could be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it.

Please get in touch if you have any questions!

This session of The Book Club will take place on Wednesday, 26th April from 5:45pm-7:15pm in store, for a 6pm start. £8.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. This month, we are reading I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait! The book can be delivered directly to you (please add your shipping address and tick the box for shipping) or you can collect it in store free of charge. You can buy a book and ticket here.

If you already own a copy of the book, you can purchase a ticket without the book for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here.

For those unable to afford a book or ticket at present, we have a limited amount of complimentary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.info or call 07597365380.

One of our booksellers will lead the book club, and the group will be split up into smaller groups to discuss the questions.

We always ask that you could be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it.

Please get in touch if you have any questions!

This session of The Book Club will take place on Tuesday, 25th April from 7pm-8pm online via Zoom. £8.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. This month, we are reading I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait! The book can be delivered directly to you (please add your shipping address and tick the box for shipping) or you can collect it in store free of charge. You can purchase a ticket and book here.

If you already own a copy of the book, you can purchase a ticket without the book for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here.

For those unable to afford a book or ticket at present, we have a limited amount of complimentary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.info or call 07597365380.

One of our booksellers will lead the book club, and the group will be split up into smaller groups in breakout rooms to discuss the questions. A Zoom link will be emailed to ticketholders one week prior to the event starting.

We always ask that you could be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it.

Please get in touch if you have any questions!

 

We’re thrilled to welcome Andy Spinoza to our bookshop to discuss Manchester Unspun, his amazing new book out now with Manchester University Press.

Arriving in Manchester as a wide-eyed student in 1979, Andy Spinoza went on to establish the arts magazine City Life before working for the Manchester Evening News and creating his own PR firm. In a forty-year career he has encountered a who’s who of Manchester personalities, from cultural icons such as Tony Wilson to Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and influential council leaders Sir Richard Leese and Sir Howard Bernstein. His remarkable account traces Manchester’s gradual emergence from its post-industrial malaise, centring on the legendary nightclub the Haçienda and the cultural renaissance it inspired.

Tickets

Click here to buy a book and a ticket for £20

Click here to buy a ticket only for £5

All tickets include a complimentary glass of white wine or soft drink. There are a small amount of tickets available for those unable to afford them at the moment – please contact us directly at 07597365380 or email bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.info.

We are excited to welcome Mike Parker to our bookshop to discuss his fantastic new book All the Wide Border. Expect an evening of lively conversation and  laughs with a lifelong wanderer.

All the Wide Border is a funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England–Wales border: Britain’s deepest faultline. Mike Parker is the author of bestselling bookseller favourite, Map Addict, as well as On the Red Hill, which was highly commended by The Wainwright Prize and awarded Wales Book of the Year for creative non-fiction in 2020.

Tickets:

Click here to buy a copy of the book and a ticket for £20

Click here to buy a ticket only for £5

Date: Thursday, 30th March
Doors at 6pm for a 6:30pm start

About All the Wide Border

All the Wide Border is a personal journey through the places, amongst the people, and across the divides of the border between England and Wales. Taking in some of our loveliest landscapes, and our darkest secrets, this is a region of immeasurable wonder and interest. It is there that the deepest roots and thorniest paradoxes of Britishness lie. The border between the countries, even as a concept, is ragged, jagged and many-layered.

Picking apart the many notions and clichés of Englishness, Welshness and indeed Britishness, Mike Parker plays with the very idea of borders, our fascination with them, our need for them, and our response to their power. In his hands, England–Wales border is revealed to be a border within us all, and it is fraying, fast.

”’I loved this book. Mike Parker weaves together a great deal of wide reading, hard thinking and soulful tramping in his funny, thoughtful and evocative investigation of the Welsh-English border.”

-Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession and Peep Show96