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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Lecture: Useful Art with John Byrne
DESCRIPTION:House of Books and Friends is bringing back their ‘Lunchtime Lecture’ series\, and are excited to welcome Professor John Byrne to discuss his book ‘Useful Art: How Activist Artists Can Change the World.’ The talk will begin at 1pm and last for 1 hour. \nTickets \nTicket only \nBook and ticket \nAbout the book \nDoes art have to be beautiful? What if it can be useful instead? In this cutting-edge book\, John Byrne shows how the concept of ‘Useful Art’ is helping artists and communities fight back against the neoliberal takeover of our spaces\, services and lives. \nExploring an international selection of projects\, exhibitions and activism\, this important new work champions the shift from aesthetics to use value\, challenging traditional ways of seeing the world symbolically through art. Reaching beyond the financial logic of the art world\, Byrne shows how Useful Art can offer an artistic toolkit for implementing radical change. \nJohn Byrne is Professor of Useful Art at Liverpool School of Art and Creative Industries. For over a decade he has been at the forefront of research into art and use value\, working with world-renowned artists and curators to explore how art can resist\, engage with or offer alternatives to the current conditions of global neoliberalism.
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LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Swap with Fly on the Wall Press
DESCRIPTION:This ‘Palentines Day’\, why not spend it with your friends\, or make new connections! \nHouse of Books and Friends welcomes Fly on the Wall Press on Friday 13th of February (6-8pm) for an uplifting evening of connections\, friends and books! \nBring along a book you’d love to find an appreciative home for – perhaps one you’d like to tell people about. Or bring more than one to give away if you have too many! \nTickets include two books – one you can select from Fly on the Wall Press on the night\, and one you gain after having swapped a book with a fellow attendee. There are also tickets available to receive a tote bag on the night. \nTickets can be found here.   \nWe can’t wait to welcome everyone in our beautiful bookshop venue. Turn up any time from 6pm.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/book-swap-with-fly-on-the-wall-press
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:AUTHOR EVENT: 'Broken Biscuits; and Other Male Failures' with Adam Farrer
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends is thrilled to welcome Adam Farrer on February 17th at 6pm to discuss their paperback book\, ‘Broken Biscuits; and Other Male Failures’. The evening will involve a discussion\, a Q&A\, and a chance to get your book signed by Adam Farrer. \nTickets \nClick here to purchase a ticket only \nClick here to purchase a book and ticket \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 \nBroken Biscuits vividly recounts Adam’s struggles to live up to masculine expectations\, real or imagined. From the calamity of his first serious relationship to an obsession with Prince that sees everyone questioning his sexuality\, and from the repercussions of his adult circumcision to his doubts about his ability to survive the apocalypse\, this candid and personal collection of essays is astonishingly far-reaching and riotously funny. Holding up a mirror to Adam’s own body image\, his relationship with his family\, his sense of self-worth and the mortifying experience of arriving at a teenage party wearing strawberry-patterned short shorts\, this book is about growing up and trying to define yourself as a man but somehow always missing the mark. \nAbout the author \n\n\n\nAdam Farrer is a writer\, a lecturer and the editor of the creative nonfiction journal The Real Story. He has been a photo lab technician\, an illustrator\, a ceramicist\, a musician\, a music journalist and currently works at the University of Salford\, where he is the Writer in Residence for Peel Park. His first book\, Cold Fish Soup\, won the Northbound Book Award.\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/author-event-broken-biscuits-and-other-male-failures-with-adam-farrer
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SUMMARY:AUTHOR EVENT: Helen Gaskell discusses 'The Regency Switch'
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends is excited to welcome Helen Gaskell to the store on 26th February at 6pm to discuss her new book\, The Regency Switch. As well as a discussion on her new book\, there will also be a Q&A\, plus the chance to get your books signed by Helen. The evening will have drinks on arrival\, and goody bags provided for all our romance-loving bookworms. \nTickets \nClick here to buy a book and ticket – £9.99\nClick here to buy a ticket only – £5 \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 \nEtta Moore expects nothing more from a Tuesday than another dull day in the office. But when her morning commute ends in Regency England\, she is forced to accept the impossible: she and her ancestor Miss Henrietta Bainbridge – or ‘Mad Hetty’\, as she’s known amongst the ton – have switched bodies. \nSuddenly Etta and Hetty must get to grips with the new worlds they find themselves in. For Etta\, it’s goodbye to dating apps and the daily commute and hello to the list of things ‘Ladies Do Not’ do. Luckily the dashing Lord Stanhope is on hand to aid her through even the most shocking of faux pas. \nMeanwhile Hetty\, who has always felt unseen and unknown\, finds her truest self blossoming with the help of 21st century medicine and the most welcome attentions of her rather beautiful Adult Learning teacher\, Stella. \nTwo hundred years away from everything they’ve ever known\, might Etta and Hetty have actually found a place where they each truly belong? \nAbout the author \nA member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association\, Helen writes Regency and contemporary romantic fiction with a twist. When not writing fiction\, Helen is a lead content designer. She lives semi-anonymously in deepest\, darkest suburbia\, splitting her time fairly evenly between sleeping\, eating raspberry trifle\, and over-thinking Oxford commas.
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