12.6.2025 7:00 PM

Strong Roots / Bread & War: Felicity Spector & Olia Hercules

Join us for an evening with journalist and food writer Felicity Spector and award-winning chef and author Olia Hercules to discuss their new books, Bread & War: A Ukrainian Story of Food, Bravery and Hope and Strong Roots: A Ukrainian Family Story of War, Exile and Hope. As the devastating war in Ukraine continues, this evening offers a chance to reflect on identity, resilience and belonging — and how food and memory shape both personal and collective history, even in times of conflict.

18.6.2025 7:00 PM

An evening with And Other Stories: Banu Mushtaq & SJ Kim

Join us for Independent Bookshop Week in collaboration with And Other Stories. In a very special event, Banu Mushtaq will read from her 2025 International Booker Prize-winning story collection Heart Lamp, and SJ Kim will read from her remarkable memoir This Part Is Silent. The evening will also include a preview reading from Roslind Belben’s long-unavailable 1984 novel Dreaming of Dead People, ahead of its forthcoming reissue by And Other Stories.

26.6.2025 7:00 PM

Nicola Dinan x Zing Tsjeng

We round off June by welcoming one of the most brilliant new voices in UK fiction, Nicola Dinan, author of Bellies and Disappoint Me, for an evening in conversation with multi-hyphenate journalist, author and podcast host Zing Tsjeng.