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SUMMARY:Little Bookworms November
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 Maisie Vs. Antarctica by Jack Jackman and meeting on Sunday 3rd November! 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 \nHave you ever wanted to go to Antarctica? When Maisie’s dad is flying over Antarctica with her\, they get themselves into a little pickle- they crashland into the snow! With everyone coming out more or less unscathed\, Maisie and her dad embark on a crazy journey\, encountering great seals\, penguins\, whales\, and finding out some family secrets!
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/little-bookworms-november
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Danielle Jawando\, "If My Words Had Wings"
DESCRIPTION:House of Books & Friends are excited to be hosting yourself and Danielle Jawando on Monday 4th November from 6pm – 7pm to discuss her book\, If My Words Had Wings. \n\nThere will be a discussion with Danielle\, a chance for a Q&A\, and an opportunity to get your books signed. We will also be selling copies of the authors works on the night. \nTickets \nYou can purchase a ticket-only option\, or you can purchase a copy of the book from us to act as a ticket; see options below: \n£5 Ticket only available here \n£8.99 for If My Words Had Wings to act as your ticket here \nAbout If My Words Had Wings \nWhen Tyrell Forrester gets caught up in a high profile armed robbery\, he’s sentenced to eighteen months in a young offenders prison. Now he’s getting out\, and he’s determined to turn his life around. But despite his release\, discrimination makes it difficult for Ty to truly be free. Inspired by a visiting poet while outside\, Ty discovers a whole new world through spoken word poetry and is finally finding his voice. But will society ever see him as anything other than a criminal? \nFrom the winner of the Jhalak Ya Prize\, The YA Book Prize and The Diverse Book Award comes a life affirming story of rehabilitation and hope. \nAbout Danielle Jawando \nDanielle Jawando is an author and screenwriter. Her debut YA novel\, And the Stars Were Burning Brightly\, won best senior novel in the Great Reads Award\, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize\, the YA Book Prize\, the Jhalak Children’s & YA Prize\, the Branford Boase Award and was long-listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Her previous publications include the non-fiction children’s book Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives)\, as well as several short plays per-formed in Manchester and London. Danielle has also worked on Coronation Street as a storyline writer. Her second novel\, When Our Worlds Collided\, won the 2023 Jha-lak Children’s and YA Prize\, the YA Book Prize and the 2023 Diverse Book Awards. Her third YA novel\, If My Words Had Wings\, was published in May this year.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/in-conversation-danielle-jawando-if-my-words-had-wings
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
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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 November\, we will be discussing A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux. \nTickets\nBook and ticket: £9.99\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 \nOn 7 April 1986\, Annie Ernaux’s mother\, after years of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease\, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which\, despite her mother’s condition\, she had refused to fathom\, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to recover the different facets of a woman whose openness to the world and appetite for reading created the conditions for the author’s own social ascent. \nMirroring A Man’s Place\, in which she narrates her father’s slow rise to material comfort\, A Woman’s Story explores the ambiguous and unshakeable bond between mother and daughter\, its fluctuation over the course of their lives\, the alienating worlds that separate them and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love. In this quietly powerful tribute to the last thread connecting her to the world out of which she was born\, Ernaux attempts to do her mother the greatest justice she can: to portray her as the individual she was. \n\nBorn in 1940\, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy\, studied at Rouen University\, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000\, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. In 2017\, Annie Ernaux was awarded the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her life’s work. In 2022\, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. \nTanya Leslie was the first translator of Annie Ernaux into English and translated a number of her works\, including A Woman’s Story (1991)\, A Man’s Place (1992)\, Simple Passion (1993)\, Shame (1998)\, I Remain in Darkness (1999) and Happening (2001)\, all for Seven Stories Press in the US. \n\nAbout Kate \nKate Feld is a writer who grew up in in the U.S. state of Vermont and now lives outside Manchester\, UK. She writes poetry\, short fiction\, essays and prose that sits between forms. Her writing explores the natural world\, mythology and the unconscious\, often taking the form of lyric narratives that both interrogate and celebrate lived experience. Her work has been published widely in journals and anthologies including The Stinging Fly\, The Letters Page\, Hotel and Tolka. She is the founding editor of UK creative nonfiction journal and reading series The Real Story\, and lectures in Journalism at the University of Salford. Her chapbook of poetry and photography\, Deeryard\, is forthcoming from Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/the-feminist-book-club-with-kate-feld-8
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Book Club – Monday 25th November 7-8pm *ONLINE*
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Monday\, 25th November via Zoom. This month\, we are reading Self-Portrait With Boy by Rachel Lyon- £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 \nAn ambitious young artist accidentally photographs a boy falling to his death—an image that could jumpstart her career but that would also devastate her most intimate friendship. \nLu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs\, responsible for her aging father\, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers\, she is at a point of desperation. One day\, in the background of a self-portrait\, Lu accidentally captures on film a boy falling past her window to his death. The photograph turns out to be startlingly gorgeous\, the best work of art she’s ever made. It’s an image that could change her life…if she lets it. \nBut the decision to show the photograph is not easy. The boy is her neighbors’ son\, and the tragedy brings all the building’s residents together. It especially unites Lu with the boy’s grieving mother\, Kate. As the two forge an intense bond based on sympathy\, loneliness\, and budding attraction\, Lu feels increasingly unsettled and guilty\, torn between equally fierce desires: to use the photograph to advance her career and to protect a woman she has come to love.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/november-book-club-online
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SUMMARY:The Book Club – Wednesday 27th November 6-7pm (EVENING)
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Wednesday 27th November. This month\, we are reading Self-Portrait With Boy by Rachel Lyon- £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 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 \nAn ambitious young artist accidentally photographs a boy falling to his death—an image that could jumpstart her career but that would also devastate her most intimate friendship. \nLu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs\, responsible for her aging father\, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers\, she is at a point of desperation. One day\, in the background of a self-portrait\, Lu accidentally captures on film a boy falling past her window to his death. The photograph turns out to be startlingly gorgeous\, the best work of art she’s ever made. It’s an image that could change her life…if she lets it. \nBut the decision to show the photograph is not easy. The boy is her neighbors’ son\, and the tragedy brings all the building’s residents together. It especially unites Lu with the boy’s grieving mother\, Kate. As the two forge an intense bond based on sympathy\, loneliness\, and budding attraction\, Lu feels increasingly unsettled and guilty\, torn between equally fierce desires: to use the photograph to advance her career and to protect a woman she has come to love.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/november-book-club-evening
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Book Club – Thursday 28th November 2-3pm (AFTERNOON)
DESCRIPTION:This session of The Book Club will take place on Thursday 28th November. This month\, we are reading Self-Portrait With Boy by Rachel Lyon- £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 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 \nAn ambitious young artist accidentally photographs a boy falling to his death—an image that could jumpstart her career but that would also devastate her most intimate friendship. \nLu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs\, responsible for her aging father\, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers\, she is at a point of desperation. One day\, in the background of a self-portrait\, Lu accidentally captures on film a boy falling past her window to his death. The photograph turns out to be startlingly gorgeous\, the best work of art she’s ever made. It’s an image that could change her life…if she lets it. \nBut the decision to show the photograph is not easy. The boy is her neighbors’ son\, and the tragedy brings all the building’s residents together. It especially unites Lu with the boy’s grieving mother\, Kate. As the two forge an intense bond based on sympathy\, loneliness\, and budding attraction\, Lu feels increasingly unsettled and guilty\, torn between equally fierce desires: to use the photograph to advance her career and to protect a woman she has come to love.
URL:https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/event/november-book-club-afternoon
LOCATION:House of Books & Friends\, 81 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4AH\, United Kingdom
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