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SUMMARY:The Book Club – Thursday 29th August\, 2-3pm
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday 29th August in-store from 2-3pm. This month\, we are reading Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah – £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nAbout the book \nEnter a world where\, livestreamed to millions\, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom. \nFan-favourite female stars Loretta Thurwar and Hamara ‘Hurricane Staxxx’ Stacker are teammates and lovers. Thurwar is nearing the end of her time on the circuit\, free in just a few matches\, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. But as protestors clash with the baying crowds and the programme’s corporate owners stack the odds against her – will the price be simply too high?
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-thursday-29th-august-2-3pm
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Feminist Book Club with Kate Feld
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends are delighted to announce that we are hosting the Feminist Book Club with facilitator Kate Feld. Taking place monthly\, this will be a space for people of all genders to discuss feminist books. In September we will be discussing Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach. The discussion will focus on the introduction and ‘Book One: The Anti-Diet Guide’ from the 2016 edition. \nTickets\nBook and ticket: £10.99\nTicket only: £3 \nAs always\, there are a limited amount of complimentary tickets available for those who need them. Please contact us directly at bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597 365380. \nAbout the book \nSusie Orbach’s seminal work\, now established as a worldwide classic\, shows how fat is not about food\, but rather about politics\, defiance\, protection\, sex\, strength\, assertion\, anger\, love. \nWhen it was first published\, Fat Is A Feminist Issue became an instant classic and it is as relevant today as it was then. Reflecting on our increasingly diet and body-obsessed society\, Susie Orbach’s new introduction explains how generations of women and girls are growing up absorbing the eating anxieties around them. In an age where women want to be sexy\, nurturing\, domestic goddesses\, confident at work\, and feminine too\, the twenty-first-century woman is poorly armed for survival. Never before has the Fat Is A Feminist Issue revolution been more in need of revival. \nExploring our love/hate relationship with food\, Susie Orbach describes how fat is about so much more than food. It is a response to our social situation; the way we are seen by others and ourselves. Too often food is a source of anguish\, as are our bodies. But Fat Is A Feminist Issue discusses how we can turn food into a friend and find ways to accept ourselves for who and how we are. Following the step-by-step guide\, and you too can put an end to food anxieties and dieting. \nAbout the author \nSusie Orbach is a British psychotherapist\, psychoanalyst\, writer and social critic. Her first book\, Fat is a Feminist Issue\, analysed the psychology of dieting and over-eating in women\, and she has campaigned against media pressure on girls to feel dissatisfied with their physical appearance. She co-founded the Women’s Therapy Centre and Antidote\, the organisation promoting emotional literacy and is a visiting Professor at the LSE. She has a practice seeing individuals and couples and consulting to organisations. Her numerous works include Fat is a Feminist Issue (1978)\, Hunger Strike (1986)\, The Impossibility of Sex (1999)\, and On Eating (2002).
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LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Book Club – Monday\, 23rd September 7-8pm *ONLINE*
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Monday 23rd September via Zoom. This month\, we are reading The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi – £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne 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 prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the book \nWelcome to The Centre. The cost may be high\, but you’ll never be the same . . . \nAnisa Ellahi longs to become a translator of ‘great works of literature’\, but right now she is stuck in her London flat writing subtitles for Bollywood films. \nThen she is told about the Centre\, an elite\, invite-only programme that guarantees complete fluency in any language in just ten days. Seduced by all that it could make possible\, Anisa enrols. But the Centre’s services come at a disturbing hidden cost. Still – it’s worth it\, right? After all\, success comes at a price . . . \nBy turns dark\, funny and surreal\, The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi takes the reader on a journey through Karachi\, London and New Delhi. Throughout it interrogates the sticky politics of language\, translation and appropriation and asks: what price would you be willing to pay for success?
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-monday-23rd-september-7-8pm-online
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Book Club – Wednesday\, 25th September 6pm - 7pm
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Wednesday 25th September. This month\, we are reading The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi – £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nAbout the book \nWelcome to The Centre. The cost may be high\, but you’ll never be the same . . . \nAnisa Ellahi longs to become a translator of ‘great works of literature’\, but right now she is stuck in her London flat writing subtitles for Bollywood films. \nThen she is told about the Centre\, an elite\, invite-only programme that guarantees complete fluency in any language in just ten days. Seduced by all that it could make possible\, Anisa enrols. But the Centre’s services come at a disturbing hidden cost. Still – it’s worth it\, right? After all\, success comes at a price . . . \nBy turns dark\, funny and surreal\, The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi takes the reader on a journey through Karachi\, London and New Delhi. Throughout it interrogates the sticky politics of language\, translation and appropriation and asks: what price would you be willing to pay for success?
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-wednesday-25th-september-6pm-7pm
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Book Club – Thursday\, 26th September 2pm - 3pm
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday 26th September. This month\, we are reading The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi – £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nAbout the book \nWelcome to The Centre. The cost may be high\, but you’ll never be the same . . . \nAnisa Ellahi longs to become a translator of ‘great works of literature’\, but right now she is stuck in her London flat writing subtitles for Bollywood films. \nThen she is told about the Centre\, an elite\, invite-only programme that guarantees complete fluency in any language in just ten days. Seduced by all that it could make possible\, Anisa enrols. But the Centre’s services come at a disturbing hidden cost. Still – it’s worth it\, right? After all\, success comes at a price . . . \nBy turns dark\, funny and surreal\, The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi takes the reader on a journey through Karachi\, London and New Delhi. Throughout it interrogates the sticky politics of language\, translation and appropriation and asks: what price would you be willing to pay for success?
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-thursday-26th-september-2pm-3pm
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:Little Bookworms Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Have you got a little bookworm in your life? Then look no further than House of Books & Friends. We are excited to invite you to Little Bookworms\, our monthly book club for 8-12 years. The book club runs the first Sunday of every month\, 11am-12pm. \nFor October\, we will be reading The Boy Who Cried Ghost by Ian Eagleton and meeting on Sunday 6th September! You have until the day of the book club to finish the title – this is available to buy as part of your ticket\, or you can purchase a ticket only. \nAs well as discussing the book\, there will be book-related activities each month for our Little Bookworms to get stuck into\, fun quizzes and games\, and squash and biscuits for all. Our Little Bookworms will also get their own book lovers passport to add to each month they attend as they jet set around the world through reading. \nAll sessions will be ticketed: £7.99 for the book and ticket\, and £2 for just the ticket. All little ones must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets can be purchased on our website and in store. A limited number of complementary tickets will also be reserved for those who might need them so please do let us know. \nIf you have any questions about the book club or tickets\, you can always take a look at our website\, email us\, or ask a friendly bookseller in store. \nAbout the book \nThere’s a ghost in Richard’s wardrobe. \nEvery day he carries out a series of rituals that he believes will keep the ghost trapped inside. He tries to tell his friends and family\, but they dismiss his worries and concerns as being part of his OCD. But then one day\, the wardrobe door is opened… \nAnd that’s when the hauntings begin. \nAn own-voices novel about mental health\, family\, friendship\, confronting fear and accepting change \nThis is the new novel by Ian Eagleton – the Polari-prize-winning author of Glitter Boy \nPerfect for fans of Elle McNicoll\, Jennifer Killick\, Lisa Thompson’s The Goldfish Boy and Phil Hickes’s The Haunting of Aveline Jones.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/little-bookworms-book-club-8
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Children's Events,The Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Feminist Book Club with Kate Feld
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends are delighted to announce that we are hosting the Feminist Book Club with facilitator Kate Feld. Taking place monthly\, this will be a space for people of all genders to discuss feminist books. In October\, we will be discussing Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. \nTickets\nBook and ticket: £13.99\nTicket only: £3 \nAs always\, there are a limited amount of complimentary tickets available for those who need them. Please contact us directly at bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597 365380. \nAbout the book \n‘Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool\, but it is pink – all shades of pink. If I have an accessory\, it is probably pink. I read Vogue\, and I’m not doing it ironically\, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.’ \nIn these funny and insightful essays published pre-2014\, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of colour (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls\, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion\, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society\, but also one of our culture. \nBad Feminist is a sharp\, funny and sincere look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are\, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better. \n \nAbout Kate \nKate Feld is a writer who grew up in in the U.S. state of Vermont and now lives outside Manchester\, UK. She writes poetry\, short fiction\, essays and prose that sits between forms. Her writing explores the natural world\, mythology and the unconscious\, often taking the form of lyric narratives that both interrogate and celebrate lived experience. Her work has been published widely in journals and anthologies including The Stinging Fly\, The Letters Page\, Hotel and Tolka. She is the founding editor of UK creative nonfiction journal and reading series The Real Story\, and lectures in Journalism at the University of Salford. Her chapbook of poetry and photography\, Deeryard\, is forthcoming from Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-feminist-book-club-with-kate-feld-7
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241028T190000
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SUMMARY:The Book Club – Monday\, 28th October 7-8pm *ONLINE*
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Monday\, 28th October via Zoom. This month\, we are reading Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi – £8.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne 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 prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the book \nPeaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin\, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated. As the carriages roll along they discover each is more curious and fascinating than the last\, becoming embroiled in this strange train and its intrigue. Who is Ava Kapoor\, the sole full-time inhabitant of the train\, and what is her relationship to a man named Prem? Are they passengers or prisoners? We discover who orchestrated the journey\, hurtling them all into their past for clues.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-monday-28th-october-7-8pm-online
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Book Club – Tuesday\, 29th October 6pm – 7pm
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Tuesday 29th October in-store. This month\, we are reading Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi – £8.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the book \nPeaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin\, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated. As the carriages roll along they discover each is more curious and fascinating than the last\, becoming embroiled in this strange train and its intrigue. Who is Ava Kapoor\, the sole full-time inhabitant of the train\, and what is her relationship to a man named Prem? Are they passengers or prisoners? We discover who orchestrated the journey\, hurtling them all into their past for clues.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/7130
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241031T150000
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SUMMARY:The Book Club – Thursday\, 31st October 2pm – 3pm
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday\, 31st October in-store. This month\, we are reading Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi – £8.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne 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 prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the book \nPeaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin\, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated. As the carriages roll along they discover each is more curious and fascinating than the last\, becoming embroiled in this strange train and its intrigue. Who is Ava Kapoor\, the sole full-time inhabitant of the train\, and what is her relationship to a man named Prem? Are they passengers or prisoners? We discover who orchestrated the journey\, hurtling them all into their past for clues.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-thursday-31st-october-2pm-3pm
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Feminist Book Club with Kate Feld
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends are delighted to announce that we are hosting the Feminist Book Club with facilitator Kate Feld. Taking place monthly\, this will be a space for people of all genders to discuss feminist books. In November\, we will be discussing A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux. \nTickets\nBook and ticket: £9.99\nTicket only: £3 \nAs always\, there are a limited amount of complimentary tickets available for those who need them. Please contact us directly at bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597 365380. \nAbout the book \nOn 7 April 1986\, Annie Ernaux’s mother\, after years of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease\, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which\, despite her mother’s condition\, she had refused to fathom\, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to recover the different facets of a woman whose openness to the world and appetite for reading created the conditions for the author’s own social ascent. \nMirroring A Man’s Place\, in which she narrates her father’s slow rise to material comfort\, A Woman’s Story explores the ambiguous and unshakeable bond between mother and daughter\, its fluctuation over the course of their lives\, the alienating worlds that separate them and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love. In this quietly powerful tribute to the last thread connecting her to the world out of which she was born\, Ernaux attempts to do her mother the greatest justice she can: to portray her as the individual she was. \n\nBorn in 1940\, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy\, studied at Rouen University\, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000\, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. In 2017\, Annie Ernaux was awarded the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her life’s work. In 2022\, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. \nTanya Leslie was the first translator of Annie Ernaux into English and translated a number of her works\, including A Woman’s Story (1991)\, A Man’s Place (1992)\, Simple Passion (1993)\, Shame (1998)\, I Remain in Darkness (1999) and Happening (2001)\, all for Seven Stories Press in the US. \n\nAbout Kate \nKate Feld is a writer who grew up in in the U.S. state of Vermont and now lives outside Manchester\, UK. She writes poetry\, short fiction\, essays and prose that sits between forms. Her writing explores the natural world\, mythology and the unconscious\, often taking the form of lyric narratives that both interrogate and celebrate lived experience. Her work has been published widely in journals and anthologies including The Stinging Fly\, The Letters Page\, Hotel and Tolka. She is the founding editor of UK creative nonfiction journal and reading series The Real Story\, and lectures in Journalism at the University of Salford. Her chapbook of poetry and photography\, Deeryard\, is forthcoming from Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-feminist-book-club-with-kate-feld-8
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Feminist Book Club with Kate Feld - JANUARY
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends are delighted to announce that we are hosting the Feminist Book Club with facilitator Kate Feld. Taking place monthly\, this will be a space for people of all genders to discuss feminist books. In December\, we will be discussing All Fours by Miranda July. \nTickets\nBook and ticket: £20\nTicket only: £3 \nAs always\, there are a limited amount of complimentary tickets available for those who need them. Please contact us directly at bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597 365380. \nAbout the book \nMiranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice\, perfect comic timing\, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy and palpable delight in pushing boundaries\, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment\, part tender reinvention of the sexual\, romantic and domestic life of a 45-year-old female artist\, All Fours transcends expectations while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again\, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly\, profoundly alive. \nThe author and film-maker explores dance\, desire\, mortality and transcendence on a wild autofictional journey
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-feminist-book-club-with-kate-feld-january
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Feminist Book club with Kate Feld - FEBRUARY
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends are delighted to announce that we are hosting the Feminist Book Club with facilitator Kate Feld. Taking place monthly\, this will be a space for people of all genders to discuss feminist books. In February\, we will be discussing The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan. \nTickets\nBook and ticket: £9.99\nTicket only: £3 \nAs always\, there are a limited amount of complimentary tickets available for those who need them. Please contact us directly at bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597 365380. \nAbout the book \nHow should we talk about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart. Since #MeToo many have fixed on consent as the key framework for achieving sexual justice. Yet consent is a blunt tool. \nTo grasp sex in all its complexity – its deep ambivalences\, its relationship to gender\, class\, race and power – we need to move beyond ‘yes and no’\, wanted and unwanted. We need to interrogate the fraught relationships between discrimination and preference\, pornography and freedom\, rape and racial injustice\, punishment and accountability\, pleasure and power\, capitalism and liberation. We need to rethink sex as a political phenomenon. \nSearching\, trenchant and extraordinarily original\, The Right to Sex is a landmark examination of the politics and ethics of sex in this world\, animated by the hope of a different one.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-feminist-book-club-with-kate-feld-february
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Book Club - Monday 24th February - ZOOM
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Monday\, 24th February\, 7-8pm. This month\, we are reading The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft – £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne 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 prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nFrom the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women’s Prize finalist\, a propulsive\, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing. \nEight translators arrive at a house in a forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the writer Irena Rey\, and they are there to translate her magnum opus\, Grey Eminence. But within days of their arrival\, Irena disappears without a trace. \nAbout the Book \nThe translators\, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author\, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with work on her masterpiece. They explore this ancient\, wooded refuge with its intoxicating slime moulds and lichens and study her exotic belongings and layered texts for clues. But doing so reveals secrets — and deceptions — of Irena Rey’s that they are utterly unprepared for. Forced to face their differences as they grow increasingly paranoid in this fever dream of isolation and obsession\, soon the translators are tangled up in a web of rivalries and desire\, threatening not only their work but the fate of their beloved author herself. \nThis hilarious\, thought-provoking second outing by award-winning translator and author Jennifer Croft is a brilliant examination of art\, celebrity\, the natural world\, and the power of language. It is an unforgettable\, unputdownable adventure with a small but global cast of characters shaken by the shocks of love\, destruction\, and creation in one of Europe’s last great wildernesses.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-monday-24th-february-zoom
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Book Club - Wednesday 26th February - EVENING
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Wednesday\, 26th February\, 6pm – 7pm. This month\, we are reading The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft – £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne 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 prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nFrom the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women’s Prize finalist\, a propulsive\, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing. \nEight translators arrive at a house in a forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the writer Irena Rey\, and they are there to translate her magnum opus\, Grey Eminence. But within days of their arrival\, Irena disappears without a trace. \nAbout the Book \nThe translators\, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author\, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with work on her masterpiece. They explore this ancient\, wooded refuge with its intoxicating slime moulds and lichens and study her exotic belongings and layered texts for clues. But doing so reveals secrets — and deceptions — of Irena Rey’s that they are utterly unprepared for. Forced to face their differences as they grow increasingly paranoid in this fever dream of isolation and obsession\, soon the translators are tangled up in a web of rivalries and desire\, threatening not only their work but the fate of their beloved author herself. \nThis hilarious\, thought-provoking second outing by award-winning translator and author Jennifer Croft is a brilliant examination of art\, celebrity\, the natural world\, and the power of language. It is an unforgettable\, unputdownable adventure with a small but global cast of characters shaken by the shocks of love\, destruction\, and creation in one of Europe’s last great wildernesses.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-wednesday-26th-february-evening
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Book Club - Thursday 27th February - AFTERNOON
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday\, 27th February\, 2-3pm. This month\, we are reading The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft – £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket only for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne 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 prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nFrom the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women’s Prize finalist\, a propulsive\, beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing. \nEight translators arrive at a house in a forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the writer Irena Rey\, and they are there to translate her magnum opus\, Grey Eminence. But within days of their arrival\, Irena disappears without a trace. \nAbout the Book \nThe translators\, who hail from eight different countries but share the same reverence for their beloved author\, begin to investigate where she may have gone while proceeding with work on her masterpiece. They explore this ancient\, wooded refuge with its intoxicating slime moulds and lichens and study her exotic belongings and layered texts for clues. But doing so reveals secrets — and deceptions — of Irena Rey’s that they are utterly unprepared for. Forced to face their differences as they grow increasingly paranoid in this fever dream of isolation and obsession\, soon the translators are tangled up in a web of rivalries and desire\, threatening not only their work but the fate of their beloved author herself. \nThis hilarious\, thought-provoking second outing by award-winning translator and author Jennifer Croft is a brilliant examination of art\, celebrity\, the natural world\, and the power of language. It is an unforgettable\, unputdownable adventure with a small but global cast of characters shaken by the shocks of love\, destruction\, and creation in one of Europe’s last great wildernesses.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-thursday-27th-february-afternoon
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Book Club: Monday 23rd June *ONLINE*
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Monday 23rd June 7-8pm via Zoom. This month\, we are reading Amphibian by Tyler Wehterall\, a tender\, haunting coming-of-age debut about desire\, precocity and the intensity of early friendships. £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket alone for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne 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 prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the book: \n‘Has a queasily compelling power’ The Times\n\n‘Haunting and visceral as a fairytale’ Lilly Dancyger \n‘Brims with sex and violence and threat\, and moves to a crescendo of strange and magical beauty’ Rebecca Stott\n\nSissy is used to being on the outside. The new girl in her West Country school\, she recently arrived with her troubled mother\, prone to letting Sissy fend for herself.\nBut from the day Sissy fights a boy in front of Tegan\, she’s no longer alone. Bonded by violence\, they grow so close they feel like one being: wrapped around each other in bed at sleepovers\, sending photographs to men they meet online\, and scaring each other with reports of the girls being snatched at night in their town. \nOver the course of the school year\, they find themselves on the threshold of girlhood\, with threats gathering thick and fast around them. And as their make-believe worlds bleed into their daily lives\, Sissy feels herself transforming into something strange and terrifying. \nAmphibian is a tender\, haunting coming-of-age debut about desire\, precocity and the intensity of early friendships that have the power to upend our lives. \nAbout the Author: \nTyler Wetherall is a journalist and author. Her debut novel\, Amphibian\, was released in 2024. Her first book\, No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run\, came out in 2018 from St. Martin’s Press\, following her childhood spent on the run with her fugitive father. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, British Vogue\, The Guardian\, National Geographic\, LitHub\, Vice\, and Condé Nast Traveler\, amongst others. Tyler has made appearances on podcasts and radio including BBC Outlook\, Good Life Project\, and Radiotopia’s Criminal. She is also the creator of Reading the City\, a weekly newsletter of bookish events taking place around New York City. Her writing is represented by Emma Parry at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. She is currently the senior editor at James Beard award-winning drinks magazine SevenFifty Daily and lives in Brooklyn with her husband.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-monday-23rd-june-online
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Book Club: Wednesday 25th June *EVENING*
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Wednesday 25th June\, in the evening (6-7pm). This month\, we are reading Amphibian by Tyler Wehterall\, a tender\, haunting coming-of-age debut about desire\, precocity and the intensity of early friendships. £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket alone for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne of our booksellers will lead the book club\, and the group will be split up into smaller groups to discuss the text. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the book: \n‘Has a queasily compelling power’ The Times\n\n‘Haunting and visceral as a fairytale’ Lilly Dancyger \n‘Brims with sex and violence and threat\, and moves to a crescendo of strange and magical beauty’ Rebecca Stott\n\nSissy is used to being on the outside. The new girl in her West Country school\, she recently arrived with her troubled mother\, prone to letting Sissy fend for herself.\nBut from the day Sissy fights a boy in front of Tegan\, she’s no longer alone. Bonded by violence\, they grow so close they feel like one being: wrapped around each other in bed at sleepovers\, sending photographs to men they meet online\, and scaring each other with reports of the girls being snatched at night in their town. \nOver the course of the school year\, they find themselves on the threshold of girlhood\, with threats gathering thick and fast around them. And as their make-believe worlds bleed into their daily lives\, Sissy feels herself transforming into something strange and terrifying. \nAmphibian is a tender\, haunting coming-of-age debut about desire\, precocity and the intensity of early friendships that have the power to upend our lives. \nAbout the Author: \nTyler Wetherall is a journalist and author. Her debut novel\, Amphibian\, was released in 2024. Her first book\, No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run\, came out in 2018 from St. Martin’s Press\, following her childhood spent on the run with her fugitive father. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, British Vogue\, The Guardian\, National Geographic\, LitHub\, Vice\, and Condé Nast Traveler\, amongst others. Tyler has made appearances on podcasts and radio including BBC Outlook\, Good Life Project\, and Radiotopia’s Criminal. She is also the creator of Reading the City\, a weekly newsletter of bookish events taking place around New York City. Her writing is represented by Emma Parry at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. She is currently the senior editor at James Beard award-winning drinks magazine SevenFifty Daily and lives in Brooklyn with her husband.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-wednesday-25th-june-evening
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Book Club: Thursday 26th June *AFTERNOON*
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday 26th June\, in the afternoon (2-3pm). This month\, we are reading Amphibian by Tyler Wehterall\, a tender\, haunting coming-of-age debut about desire\, precocity and the intensity of early friendships. £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket alone for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne of our booksellers will lead the book club\, and the group will be split up into smaller groups to discuss the text. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the book: \n‘Has a queasily compelling power’ The Times\n\n‘Haunting and visceral as a fairytale’ Lilly Dancyger \n‘Brims with sex and violence and threat\, and moves to a crescendo of strange and magical beauty’ Rebecca Stott\n\nSissy is used to being on the outside. The new girl in her West Country school\, she recently arrived with her troubled mother\, prone to letting Sissy fend for herself.\nBut from the day Sissy fights a boy in front of Tegan\, she’s no longer alone. Bonded by violence\, they grow so close they feel like one being: wrapped around each other in bed at sleepovers\, sending photographs to men they meet online\, and scaring each other with reports of the girls being snatched at night in their town. \nOver the course of the school year\, they find themselves on the threshold of girlhood\, with threats gathering thick and fast around them. And as their make-believe worlds bleed into their daily lives\, Sissy feels herself transforming into something strange and terrifying. \nAmphibian is a tender\, haunting coming-of-age debut about desire\, precocity and the intensity of early friendships that have the power to upend our lives. \nAbout the Author: \nTyler Wetherall is a journalist and author. Her debut novel\, Amphibian\, was released in 2024. Her first book\, No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run\, came out in 2018 from St. Martin’s Press\, following her childhood spent on the run with her fugitive father. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, British Vogue\, The Guardian\, National Geographic\, LitHub\, Vice\, and Condé Nast Traveler\, amongst others. Tyler has made appearances on podcasts and radio including BBC Outlook\, Good Life Project\, and Radiotopia’s Criminal. She is also the creator of Reading the City\, a weekly newsletter of bookish events taking place around New York City. Her writing is represented by Emma Parry at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. She is currently the senior editor at James Beard award-winning drinks magazine SevenFifty Daily and lives in Brooklyn with her husband.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-thursday-26th-june-afternoon
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:The Book Club: Wednesday 30th July *EVENING*
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Wednesday 30th July\, 6pm-7pm\, in person. This month\, we are reading Your Neighbour’s Table by Gu Byeong-mo\,  a thought-provoking story of community and the cultural expectations of motherhood. £10.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \n\nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket alone for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \n\nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \n\nOne 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 prior to the event starting. \n\nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \n\nAbout the book: \n\nWhen Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments\, she’s ready for a fresh start. Located on the outskirts of Seoul\, the experimental community is a government initiative designed to boost the national birth rate. Like her neighbours\, Yojin has agreed to have at least two more children over the next ten years. \n\nYet\, from the day she arrives\, Yojin feels uneasy about the community spirit thrust upon her. Her concerns grow as communal child care begins and the other parents show their true colours. Your Neighbour’s Tabletraces the lives of four women in the apartments\, all with different aspirations and beliefs. \n\nWill they find a way to live peacefully? Or are society’s expectations stacked against them from the start? \n\nA trenchant social novel from an award-winning author\, Your Neighbour’s Table incisively illuminates the unspoken imbalance of women’s parenting labour and the challenges of working towards a better life. \n\nAbout the Author: \n\nGu Byeong-mo was born in 1976 in Seoul. She studied Korean language and literature at Kyung Hee University\, and worked as an editor. She made her literary debut with the novel Wizard Bakery (2009)\, which won the Changbi Prize. It became bestseller in Korea and was translated into many different languages. Her short story collection Hoping That It Wasn’t Only Me (2015) received Writer of the Year Award and Hwang Sun-won Literary Award for New Writers.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-wednesday-30th-july-evening
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250820T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250820T190000
DTSTAMP:20250718T101318Z
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SUMMARY:The Feminist Book Club with Kate Feld
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends are delighted to announce that we are hosting the Feminist Book Club with facilitator Kate Feld. Taking place monthly\, this will be a space for people of all genders to discuss feminist books. In August\, we will be reading Women and Power by Mary Beard. \nTickets \nBook and ticket \nTicket only \nAs always\, there are a limited amount of complimentary tickets available for those who need them. Please contact us directly at bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597 365380. \nAbout the book \nBritain’s best-known classicist Mary Beard\, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit\, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day\, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny\, considering the public voice of women\, our cultural assumptions about women’s relationship with power\, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template. \nA year on since the advent of #metoo\, Beard looks at how the discussions have moved on during this time\, and how that intersects with issues of rape and consent\, and the stories men tell themselves to support their actions. In trademark Beardian style\, using examples ancient and modern\, Beard argues\, ‘it’s time for change – and now!’ \nFrom the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. \n 
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-feminist-book-club-with-kate-feld-9
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250825T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250825T200000
DTSTAMP:20250728T120801Z
CREATED:20250731T150025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250728T120801Z
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SUMMARY:The Book Club *ONLINE*
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Monday 25th August 7-8pm via Zoom. This month\, we are reading Spoilt Creatures by Amy Twigg\,  a wild story of hidden passions\, power struggles and feral freedom in a women’s commune on a remote farm in Kent. £10.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket alone for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne 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 prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the book:  \nThey thought they know everything about us. The kind of women we were. \nIris seeks a different kind of life. Promise comes in the form of Hazel\, who lives at Breach House – a women’s commune on a remote farm. At Breach House\, the women live and eat in abundance\, are guided by landscape and ritual\, all while under the leadership of their gargantuan matriarch\, Blythe. \nBut is Breach House truly the haven it seems? When an unforgivable transgression comes to light and power struggles intensify\, the women find themselves hurtling towards an act of devastating violence that will threaten everything they’ve fought to create.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/august-book-club-online
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250827T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250827T190000
DTSTAMP:20250728T120738Z
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SUMMARY:The Book Club *EVENING SESSION*
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Wednesday 27th August 6pm – 7pm in person. This month\, we are reading Spoilt Creatures by Amy Twigg\,  a wild story of hidden passions\, power struggles and feral freedom in a women’s commune on a remote farm in Kent. £10.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket alone for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne 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 prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the Book:  \nThey thought they know everything about us. The kind of women we were. \nIris seeks a different kind of life. Promise comes in the form of Hazel\, who lives at Breach House – a women’s commune on a remote farm. At Breach House\, the women live and eat in abundance\, are guided by landscape and ritual\, all while under the leadership of their gargantuan matriarch\, Blythe. \nBut is Breach House truly the haven it seems? When an unforgivable transgression comes to light and power struggles intensify\, the women find themselves hurtling towards an act of devastating violence that will threaten everything they’ve fought to create.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/august-book-club-evening-session
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250828T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250828T150000
DTSTAMP:20250728T120712Z
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SUMMARY:The Book Club *AFTERNOON SESSION*
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday 28th August 2pm – 3pm in person. This month\, we are reading Spoilt Creatures by Amy Twigg\,  a wild story of hidden passions\, power struggles and feral freedom in a women’s commune on a remote farm in Kent. £10.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket alone for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne 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 prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the Book:  \nThey thought they know everything about us. The kind of women we were. \nIris seeks a different kind of life. Promise comes in the form of Hazel\, who lives at Breach House – a women’s commune on a remote farm. At Breach House\, the women live and eat in abundance\, are guided by landscape and ritual\, all while under the leadership of their gargantuan matriarch\, Blythe. \nBut is Breach House truly the haven it seems? When an unforgivable transgression comes to light and power struggles intensify\, the women find themselves hurtling towards an act of devastating violence that will threaten everything they’ve fought to create.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/august-book-club-afternoon-session
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250907T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250907T120000
DTSTAMP:20250827T145944Z
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SUMMARY:Little Bookworms September
DESCRIPTION:Have you got a little bookworm in your life? Then look no further than House of Books & Friends. We are excited to invite you to Little Bookworms\, our monthly book club for 8-12 years. The book club runs the first Sunday of every month\, 11am-12pm. \nFor September\, we will be reading In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen  by Kiran Millwood Hargreave. You have until the day of the book club to finish the title – this is available to buy as part of your ticket\, or you can purchase a ticket only. \nAs well as discussing the book\, there will be book-related activities each month for our Little Bookworms to get stuck into\, fun quizzes and games\, and squash and biscuits for all. Our Little Bookworms will also get their own book lovers passport to add to each month they attend as they jet set around the world through reading. \nAll sessions will be ticketed: £7.99 for the book and ticket\, and £2 for just the ticket. All little ones must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets can be purchased on our website and in store. A limited number of complementary tickets will also be reserved for those who might need them so please do let us know. \nIf you have any questions about the book club or tickets\, you can always take a look at our website\, email us\, or ask a friendly bookseller in store. \nAbout the book: \nWhen her sister vanishes after a mysterious earthquake\, Ysolda sets off on a rescue mission. But these are dangerous times\, and soon she is forced to strike a deadly bargain with the wolf queen herself. \nJoin Ysolda and her loyal sea hawk as they embark on an epic quest to save her sister and unlock the earth’s most powerful magic … \nFrom the author of The Girl of Ink and Stars\, Julia and the Shark and The Mercies\, the Geomancer trilogy is a new modern classic for readers young and old.\n\nKiran Millwood Hargrave is winner of the Wainwright Prize\, the Waterstones Book Prize\, and the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/little-bookworms-september-2
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250922T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250922T200000
DTSTAMP:20250813T105654Z
CREATED:20250829T100044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250813T105654Z
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SUMMARY:The Book Club *ONLINE*
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Monday 22nd September 7-8pm via Zoom. This month\, we are reading Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino\,  an idiosyncratic novel full of both humour and pathos\, exploring themes of loneliness and belonging through the eyes of an unforgettable alien. £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket alone for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne 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 prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the book:  \nBorn at the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space\, Adina is a baby of unusual perception. Tiny and jaundiced\, she reaches for warmth and light. As a child\, she recognises she is different\, not least because of her strange knowledge of a faraway planet. Then a fax machine arrives at home. Her mission is clear: she must report on the oddities of humankind. \nAs Adina grows up\, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and delights of human existence. But then she starts to wonder. Is there a chance there are others like her out there? \nAdina sees our world differently. And her gentle\, perceptive – and funny – observations offer a quietly joyful new view of life on Earth\, the challenge of knowing ourselves and the miracle of finding our people in this vast universe.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-online
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250923T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250923T190000
DTSTAMP:20250826T133448Z
CREATED:20250829T093057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250826T133448Z
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SUMMARY:The Book Club - Evening Session
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Tuesday 23rd September 6-7pm in person. This month\, we are reading Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino\,  an idiosyncratic novel full of both humour and pathos\, exploring themes of loneliness and belonging through the eyes of an unforgettable alien. £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket alone for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne of our booksellers will lead the book club\, and the group will be split up into smaller groups to discuss the questions. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the book:  \nBorn at the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space\, Adina is a baby of unusual perception. Tiny and jaundiced\, she reaches for warmth and light. As a child\, she recognises she is different\, not least because of her strange knowledge of a faraway planet. Then a fax machine arrives at home. Her mission is clear: she must report on the oddities of humankind. \nAs Adina grows up\, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and delights of human existence. But then she starts to wonder. Is there a chance there are others like her out there? \nAdina sees our world differently. And her gentle\, perceptive – and funny – observations offer a quietly joyful new view of life on Earth\, the challenge of knowing ourselves and the miracle of finding our people in this vast universe.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-evening-session
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250925T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250925T150000
DTSTAMP:20250831T142409Z
CREATED:20250829T093455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250831T142409Z
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SUMMARY:The Book Club - Afternoon Session
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday 25th September 2-3pm in person. This month\, we are reading Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino\,  an idiosyncratic novel full of both humour and pathos\, exploring themes of loneliness and belonging through the eyes of an unforgettable alien. £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket alone for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the book:  \nBorn at the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space\, Adina is a baby of unusual perception. Tiny and jaundiced\, she reaches for warmth and light. As a child\, she recognises she is different\, not least because of her strange knowledge of a faraway planet. Then a fax machine arrives at home. Her mission is clear: she must report on the oddities of humankind. \nAs Adina grows up\, she dispatches transmissions on the terrors and delights of human existence. But then she starts to wonder. Is there a chance there are others like her out there? \nAdina sees our world differently. And her gentle\, perceptive – and funny – observations offer a quietly joyful new view of life on Earth\, the challenge of knowing ourselves and the miracle of finding our people in this vast universe.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-afternoon-session
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251005T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251005T120000
DTSTAMP:20250828T114428Z
CREATED:20250907T120055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T114428Z
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SUMMARY:Little Bookworms October
DESCRIPTION:Have you got a little bookworm in your life? Then look no further than House of Books & Friends. We are excited to invite you to Little Bookworms\, our monthly book club for 8-12 years. The book club runs the first Sunday of every month\, 11am-12pm. \nFor October\, we will be reading The Boy with the Big Decisions by Helen Rutter. You have until the day of the book club to finish the title – this is available to buy as part of your ticket\, or you can purchase a ticket only. \nAs well as discussing the book\, there will be book-related activities each month for our Little Bookworms to get stuck into\, fun quizzes and games\, and squash and biscuits for all. Our Little Bookworms will also get their own book lovers passport to add to each month they attend as they jet set around the world through reading. \nAll sessions will be ticketed: £7.99 for the book and ticket\, and £2 for just the ticket. All little ones must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets can be purchased on our website and in store. A limited number of complementary tickets will also be reserved for those who might need them so please do let us know. \nIf you have any questions about the book club or tickets\, you can always take a look at our website\, email us\, or ask a friendly bookseller in store. \nAbout the book \nFred can’t make a decision about anything – his parents always tell him what to do\, from what to eat every day to which secondary school to choose. That’s how Fred has found himself a pupil at the high-pressure\, strict Gains School\, when he’d much rather be going to Browtree\, with its brilliant art department and kind teachers. \nAs Fred waits for the bus to his new school\, he sees the bus for Browtree pull up – and a wild\, thrilling\, thought strikes him. \nShould he jump on this bus and pretend he’s a new student at Browtree? \nWill he be brave enough to follow a different path for once? \nYou\, the reader\, will stand in Fred’s shoes and make decisions alongside him throughout this story. \nYou’ll help him stand-up for what he believes in\, learn what he truly loves to do\, make good friends and face choices about whether to swerve or walk into drama. \nYOU are in charge of The Boy With Big Decisions!
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/little-bookworms-october
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251027T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251027T200000
DTSTAMP:20250925T101955Z
CREATED:20250925T084843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250925T101955Z
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SUMMARY:The Book Club - ONLINE
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Monday 27th October 7-8pm via Zoom. This month\, we are reading Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo. £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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. \nIf you already own a copy of the book\, you can purchase a ticket alone for £3. You can purchase a ticket only here. \nFor those unable to afford a book or ticket at present\, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.pro or call 07597365380. \nOne 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 prior to the event starting. \nWe always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it. \nAbout the book \nSissie is leaving Ghana for the first time. Arriving in Europe on a scholarship to experience the glories of a Western education\, she plunges into this new continent’s heart of whiteness\, observing the strange customs of the natives. \nDrinking cocktails at the German Embassy\, she cringes at her countrymen.\nIn a Bavarian castle\, she is seduced by the lonely mother of Little Adolf.\nIn freezing London\, she witnesses ‘been-tos’ sharing myths of an overseas idyll.\nIn between continents\, she writes a letter on the plane to her exiled former lover.\nBut it is not sent. She will tell these tales back at home. \nAma Ata Aidoo’s landmark debut Our Sister Killjoy exploded into the world in 1977. With its blistering feminist satire of the West African diaspora\, colonial legacies and toxic racism\, expressed in a radical literary form – prose poetry\, letter\, manifesto – its provocative impact remains unmatched half a century on.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/the-book-club-online-2
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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