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SUMMARY:The Book Club - Thursday\, 30th May 2-3pm
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday 30th May from 2-3pm in store. This month\, we are reading Fray by Chris Carse Wilson – £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 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 complimentary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.com 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 \nA MISSING PERSON MYSTERY LIKE NO OTHER \nI am not gone. Mum is not gone. We are here. We are hidden. \nA father who is trying to rescue his lost wife. \nTheir child\, desperately searching the wild forests and dangerous mountains of the Scottish Highlands\, not knowing what’s out there. \nAn abandoned cottage in the remote wilderness\, filled with thousands of confusing\, terrifying handwritten notes. \nAnd a dark\, looming voice who threatens to destroy everything…
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LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Munir Hachemi: Living Things
DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to welcome Munir Hachemi at House of Books & Friends on Thursday 30th May to discuss his new book\, Living Things\, published by Fitzcarraldo. The event will take start at 6pm\, and will include a conversation with Munir Hachemi and a Q&A\, before an opportunity to get your books signed. \nTickets \nClick here to buy a book and ticket \nClick here to buy a ticket only \nAs always\, we have a limited amount of complimentary tickets for this event for anyone who needs it. Please contact us directly at bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.com or call 07597365380. \nAbout the book \nLiving Things follows four recent graduates – Munir\, G\, Ernesto and Álex – who travel from Madrid to the south of France to work the grape harvest. Except things don’t go as planned: they end up working on an industrial chicken farm and living on a campsite\, where a general sense of menace takes hold. What follows is a compelling and incisive examination of precarious employment\, capitalism\, immigration and the mass production of living things\, all interwoven with the protagonist’s thoughts on literature and the nature of storytelling. A genre-bending and dystopian eco-thriller\, Living Things is a punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream\, heralding an exciting new voice in international fiction. \nAbout the author \nMunir Hachemi’s career as a writer began with him selling his stories in the form of fanzines in the bars of the Lavapiés neighbourhood of Madrid. He is the author of Living Things (2018) and El árbol viene [The Coming of the Tree] (2023)\, and is also a translator from Chinese and English. In 2021\, he appeared on Granta’s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists list. He currently lives in Buenos Aires. \nAbout the translator \nJulia Sanches is a literary translator working from Portuguese\, Spanish\, and Catalan into English. She has translated works such as Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu\, Eartheater by Dolores Reyes\, and Boulder by Eva Baltasar\, which was longlisted for the International Booker 2023.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/an-evening-with-munir-hachemi-living-things
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
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