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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 September\, we will be reading The Last life of Lori Mills by Max Boucherat and meeting on Sunday 1st 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 \nEleven-year-old Lori is home alone for the first time in her life\, and she’s immediately done all the things she’s TOTALLY NOT allowed to do: \n1. Turned the heating up to the max.\n2. Built a GIANT blanket fort in the living room.\n3. Switched on Voxminer\, aka the greatest game in the history of the universe. \nBut quickly\, Lori realises something is wrong. She can hear strange whispers coming from the screen – and soon\, they’re in the house with her. Could it be Voxminer’s most terrifying legend: Shade Girl? \nTrapped in her home as the doors and windows start to vanish and her phone goes dead\, Lori must use all her bravery\, wits\, gaming skills – and the love and deep bond she shares with her BFF\, Shoelace – to survive until Mum gets home…
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/little-bookworms-book-club-7
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Children's Events
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SUMMARY:Evie Muir in conversation with L'Oréal Blackett: Radical Rest
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends are thrilled to welcome Evie Muir to discuss their new book Radical Rest with L’Oréal Blackett on Tuesday\, 17th September! Radical Rest: Notes on burnout\, healing and hopeful futures is Evie’s first book which explores what radical rest would look and feel like\, through a Black Feminist\, abolitionist and nature-allied lens. Speaking to those who have been disproportionately affected by burnout\, Muir gives us hope that we can experience a healed future. This event will include a discussion between Evie and L’Oréal\, an audience Q&A\, and a chance to get your book signed. \nTickets \n£5 Ticket only (this is redeemable against a copy of the book on the evening of the event)\n£16.99 Book and Ticket (available to collect on the evening of the event) \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 \nWe’re burnt out. Exhausted; anxiety-ridden; over-worked and under-resourced. Yet the ‘solution’ cannot possibly lie in self-care\, yoga retreats or the odd massage when this bone-numbing fatigue is a symptom of a desperately unhealthy society. We cannot simply ‘fix ourselves’ under a system that demands and takes so much of us. What is needed is a complete reimagining that puts a thriving life of abundance first and foremost. \nThrough a Black Feminist\, abolitionist and nature-allied lens\, Evie Muir takes us on a journey of regeneration that reimagines what a world of true rest – radical rest – would look like\, how that would feel. As they look to activists and cultural influences past and present for guidance\, Evie explores the core emotions associated with burnout: moving from rage\, grief and anxiety to the hope\, joy and plenty that deep change can bring. \nAlong the way\, Evie speaks with those who have been disproportionately impacted by\, and working in resistance to\, burnout – Black\, queer\, disabled activists of colour. And what becomes clear as we hear about these lived experiences is that a world of radical rest must exist in community – with one another\, with our bodies\, and with the natural world. \nBold\, vulnerable and deeply honest\, Radical Rest is a blueprint for change and a salve for the soul. Step in and open the door to a hopeful and healed future. \nAbout the author \nEvie Muir is both a domestic abuse survivor and qualified domestic abuse specialist\, writer and the founder of Peaks of Colour – a Peak District based nature-for-healing community group\, by and for people of colour. \nHaving worked in the VAWG sector for over 10 years\, specialising in Black and queer survivors’ intersectional experiences of gendered and racialised trauma\, she left the sector when she became burnt out\, disenfranchised and disillusioned. Her work now sits on the intersections of gendered\, racial and land justice\, and seeks to nurture survivors’ joy\, rest\, hope and imagination as abolitionist praxis. As a Northern freelance writer\, she’s passionate about the liberating form of writing as healing and resistance. \n \nAbout L’Oréal Blackett \nL’Oréal Blacket is a journalist\, magazine editor and broadcaster from Manchester. In her current role as Unbothered UK editor at Refinery29\, L’Oréal’s work celebrates the multifaceted lives of Black women and also fosters a platform for underrepresented voices.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/evie-muir-in-conversation-with-loreal-blackett-radical-rest
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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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.com 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).
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/the-feminist-book-club-with-kate-feld-6
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Book Club
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Lecture: Thrillers and Psychopaths with Isabelle Kenyon
DESCRIPTION:We return with our Lunchtime Lectures this September\, and have the wonderful Isabelle Kenyon coming to talk on Friday 20th September about the UK’s fascination with thrillers and the literary psychopath. Not only is Isabelle a fan herself\, and a publisher of several titles of this genre including The Sleepless by Liam Bell\, but also an author of a thriller novel\, The Dark Within Them.  \nFor many\, books are used as a form of escapism. Why then\, are we drawn to the darker sides of reality? What is it as a reader makes us want to explore the terror and misery that can come from the actions of those we deem ‘psychopaths’? Isabelle will talk us through where the genre began\, what lead to the growth in the market\, and what makes a really good scary novel. \nThe talk will begin at 1pm and last for 1 hour. Tickets are £3\, and are available to buy here. \nAs always we have a handful of free tickets for those who would like them. Please email bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.com to claim these.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/lunchtime-lecture-thrillers-and-psychopaths-with-isabelle-kenyon
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Event
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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.com 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.com/event/the-book-club-monday-23rd-september-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 – 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.com 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.com/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.com 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.com/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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