Recommended: Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
A retired university professor in Berlin befriends a group of African asylum seekers and attempts to help them in various ways, so begins this sensitive and powerful novel. It cleverly portrays the culture gap as neither party knows anything about ...
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Recommended: Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke
A portrait of the chaotic and seamy underside of San Francisco's Mission district in which the narrator Jesse 'dabbles in perversity' with frightening abandon. The writing is exquisitely real, exhilarating while the book explores themes of self-annihilation, sex as a ...
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Event: Desire! Desire! – a solo exhibition from Ross Head
Join us for the opening of a new exhibition from multidisciplinary artist Ross Head. Using human sexuality as a starting point, this exhibition includes works on paper depicting human figures either alone or in groups, that are folded, abstracted, and ...
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Event: Novel Meets Cello: the launch of Martin Goodman’s J SS BACH with live music
To launch J SS Bach (‘A masterful novel’ – The Morning Star) we present a collaboration in words and cello between Martin Goodman (writer) and Hannah Monkhouse (cellist). Martin Goodman’s new novel J SS Bach takes music and the Holocaust ...
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Event: Raymond Antrobus and Rachel Long
We're very excited to welcome poets Raymond Antrobus and Rachel Long to the shop to read from their recent work. The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging across history ...
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Extended Opening Hours
From Monday we'll be open for longer hours than usual in the run-up to Christmas. Please note the dates below, and for all other dates please refer to our regular opening times at the foot of the page. Monday 17th December ...
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