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SUMMARY:AUTHOR EVENT: 'Beyond Palatable' with Sophie Lee
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends is thrilled to welcome Sophie Lee on Thursday 12th March to discuss her new book\, Beyond Palatable: A Manifesto for Unapologetic Women. Sophie will be here from 6pm\, and the event will consist of a discussion\, a Q&A\, and a chance for you to get your copies signed by Sophie. \nTickets \nBook and ticket option £14.99\nTicket only option £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 \nBeyond Palatable is a transformative manifesto for women seeking to embrace their true selves unapologetically. In this powerful work\, Sophie Lee acts as both a revelator and a rebel\, challenging the societal norms that keep us small and confined. \nSophie’s compelling voice guides readers to confront the pressures of conformity that stifle individuality. Each chapter is rich with actionable insights\, somatic practices and practical tasks\, all designed to deepen self-understanding and spark meaningful change. \nWith tools for self-reflection\, Beyond Palatable fosters a sense of empowerment that encourages readers to stand firm in their truth\, even amidst external resistance. This heartfelt invitation to reclaim authenticity serves as a reminder that the essence of who we are is rooted in our hearts. \nA must-read for those on a journey of personal growth and liberation\, Beyond Palatable challenges you to break free from limitations and redefine what it means to be you. Embrace the journey and discover the power of living authentically. \nAbout the author \nSophie is a storyteller\, strategist and writer\, and is the founder of Electric Peach. She helps organisations build movements and turn ideas into real-world impact. She also works closely with female founders on voice and visibility\, helping them speak with clarity and become unignorable. Her work sits at the intersection of strategy\, storytelling\, and social change. Beyond Palatable is her first book.
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LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:AUTHOR EVENT: 'Storm Over Camelot' Sophie Keetch in conversation with Emma Hinds
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends is excited to welcome Sophie Keetch on March 19th at 6pm to discuss the final book in her ‘Morgan Triology’\, ‘Storm Over Camelot‘. The evening will involve a discussion\, a Q&A\, and a chance to get your book signed by Sophie. Sophie will be in discussion with Emma Hinds\, author of ‘The Knowing‘ and ‘The Quick and the Dead‘. \nTickets \nClick here to buy book and ticket \nClick here to buy a ticket only \nAbout the book \nThe thrilling conclusion to the bestselling Morgan Le Fay series \nGrieving over a devastating loss\, Morgan has retreated to the sanctuary of Belle Garde behind a veil of fairy magic\, after swearing vengeance upon King Arthur and Camelot. \nSteeped in her rage\, she becomes a storm of retribution\, battling to avenge her brother’s wrongs while trying to undo a terrible tragedy. But with her resurrection skills elusive and Camelot growing in glory and strength\, Morgan is failing\, her freedom under threat in the wake of her chaos and treasonous reputation. \nAll appears futile\, until her efforts bring news of scandal in the Royal Court\, and Morgan is once again drawn inside Camelot’s golden walls. When an encounter with Arthur’s trusted knight\, Sir Lancelot\, sparks suspicions of Queen Guinevere’s adultery\, Morgan falls deeper into obsession\, the need to punish those who betrayed her driving her further away from her loved ones\, and the woman she once wished to be. \nAs the Age of Camelot darkens\, and the forces of love\, fate and truth collide\, she must choose between her thirst for vengeance and the power to heal what is broken\, and decide who Morgan le Fay truly is\, in her own future and for all time. \nAbout the author \nSophie Keetch read English Literature at Cardiff University\, including the study of Arthurian legend. Her debut trilogy is a feminist retelling of the story of sorceress Morgan Le Fay. The first book\, Morgan is my Name\, was a #1 Audible bestseller and one of the Sunday Times’ Best Historical Fiction novels of 2023. The audiobook\, narrated by Oscar-nominated actress Vanessa Kirby\, was a The Times Audiobook of the Week. Sophie is Welsh and lives with her husband and son in South Wales.
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SUMMARY:AUTHOR EVENT: 'An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail' with Hélène Giannecchini
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends is thrilled to welcome Hélène Giannecchini on Tuesday 24th March at 6pm to discuss their new book\, ‘An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail’. The evening will involve a discussion\, a Q&A\, and a chance to get your book signed by Hélène. \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 \nAfter she encounters a poem about love and friendship etched on the Homomonument in Amsterdam\, Hélène Giannecchini is moved to attempt to do justice to a form of relation often subordinated to romance. A friendship is a filiation we choose\, one that can reconfigure our understanding of co-existence. It holds love\, laughter\, dissent and solidarity; it can be a site of political struggle\, of reinvention and rest. Thinking back to her own unconventional family formation\, she sets out to piece together an alternative genealogy of lives excluded from normative discourses\, whose traces may only remain in memory and archival fragments. \nIn searching and sensitive prose\, Giannecchini sifts the past to bring marginal existences into communion with each other\, preserved through loving acts of witness and made full of meaning by friendship’s generative force. Roving from Saint-Just’s revolutionary ideal of amity to Donna Gottschalk’s photography documenting radical lesbian organizing in 1960s and ’70s New York\, interspersed with unpublished images acquired magpie-like through chance and circumstance\, An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail forms a slantwise account of queer life in the twentieth century\, and a moving testament to the liberatory power of friendship. \nAbout the author \nHélène Giannecchini is a writer and curator\, specialising in the relationship between text and image. In 2014 she published Une Image peut-être vraie. Alix Cléo Roubaud [translation by Theano Petrou\, A Portrait in pieces\, Sylph edition\, 2023] with Seuil and directed the Alix Cléo Roubaud retrospective at the Bibliothèque nationale de France that same year. Her following novel\, Voir de ses propres yeux [See With Your Own Eyes]\, was published in January 2020. Her new book Un désir démesuré d’amitié was released in August 2024. For several years now\, she has been writing in collaboration with contemporary artists and she curated several exhibitions. \nAs a Doctor of Literature\, she has given lectures at the Pompidou Centre\, the Complutense University of Madrid\, the University of Basel\, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation\, the Jeu de Paume\, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie\, galerie Buchholz New York\, among others. She was a resident of Villa Médicis in 2018-2019 and of Villa Albertine in 2022.
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