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SUMMARY:Little Bookworms June
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 June\, we will be reading Serial Chillers by Jennifer Killick. 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: \nWelcome to Hazard. An ordinary town where strangeness is a way of life. A town where sink holes appear with no warning\, where people go missing way too often and where things really DO go bump in the night … \nTo Travis and his classmates\, Hazard is home. But when they’re set a school project to investigate the history of the town\, they soon realise that something strange and alien lies beneath Hazard. What can they learn from their investigations into the mysterious witch in the woods? And – if the witch really does exist – will they make it home to tell the tale …? \n 
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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 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.
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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: 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.
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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: 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
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SUMMARY:Long Going Launch: Sophie Calon in conversation with Dr Piers Henriques
DESCRIPTION:“A moving and thought-provoking account of an impossible situation.”\n— Louis de Bernières\, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin \nHouse of Books & Friends\, King Street\, Manchester invites you to join Sophie Calon for the launch of her debut memoir Long Going (Honno\, £12.99 June 2025). A story of breaking destructive cycles\, Long Going is an unflinching memoir of alcoholism\, family\, and resilience. The launch will take place on Thursday 26 June\, shortly after Father’s Day. \nSophie will be joined by Dr Piers Henriques\, director of communications at Nacoa – a charity that works to address the needs of children affected by a parent’s drinking. They will discuss the challenges for children of alcoholics\, the potential long-term effects\, and what it means to survive. \nTickets \nTickets for this event are free and available here \nAbout Long Going \nAt 50\, Sophie Calon’s father was a high-flying lawyer. At 55\, he was found dead in Cardiff city centre at Christmas. Meanwhile he had pinballed between tents\, homeless shelters\, and prison cells. His story is a lesson in how alcoholism can consume a person and a family. Long Going is a powerful memoir that sings with Sophie’s love for her eccentric\, witty father while recounting his drink-fuelled disintegration. In telling his story\, Sophie explores her family’s instability and pain as well as her own survival. \n“Throughout my childhood\, our family’s struggles went unsaid. We kept our problems to ourselves. I hope that Long Going will help to open up conversations about alcoholism\, particularly the impacts that addiction can have on loved ones. My dad died from drinking\, but I hope this story can ensure his legacy will live on and support others to deal with similar situations.” — Sophie Calon. \nSophie Calon \nSophie Calon was born and raised in Cardiff. State-educated\, Sophie studied Classics at Oxford University then trained as a journalist in her hometown. Her writing has been published in The Guardian\, The TLS\, Literary Review\, and the anthology Tales of Two Londons. Her story ‘Cantlos’ was runner-up for the 2021 Wild Writing Prize and published by Short Fiction. Sophie lives with her husband\, daughter\, cats\, and cows on a hilltop near Hay-on-Wye\, where they are returning nature to their surroundings. \nDr Piers Henriques \nDr Piers Henriques is director of communications at Nacoa (The National Association for Children of Alcoholics)\, a UK charity dedicated to supporting those affected by a parent’s drinking. Nacoa   provides free\, confidential helplines\, resources\, and advocacy to raise awareness of the often-invisible impact of alcoholism on families. Nacoa was originally set up by Hilary Henriques MBE in 1990. \n 
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.pro/event/long-going-launch-sophie-calon-in-conversation-with-dr-piers-henriques
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