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August 2018
Resistance: Where Fiction Meets Reality, Part Two
Book Fringe is delighted to welcome Julian Fuks with his new novel from Charco Press, Resistance. We are also joined by translator Daniel Hahn, who has over sixty books to his name! Resistance doesn't publish until October - so Golden Hare are delighted to off you this mega preview! All our Book Fringe events are free and unticketed, so just come along! ‘My brother is adopted, but I can’t say and don’t want to say that my…
Find out more »Edward Lear: The Man Behind the Nonsense
Book Fringe is delighted to welcome acclaimed biographer Jenny Uglow to Golden Hare Books for an evening of conversation about her career and most recent work, a biography of Edward Lear. This is bound to be a brilliant and fascinating evening - not to be missed. This event is free and unticketed - just come along! Acclaimed biographer Jenny Uglow brings us a joyful and moving appreciation of Edward Lear’s extraordinary life and work. We know Edward Lear as…
Find out more »Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women’s Rights
Book Fringe hosts an evening of discussion with activist and great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst, Helen Pankhurst. Join us for a dynamic and interactive history of the women's suffrage movement, and a reflection on the progress that has been made, and how far we still have to go today. Book Fringe events are free and unticketed, so please just come along. Despite huge progress since the original suffragette campaigns and wave after wave of new feminism, women are still…
Find out more »Kids’ Event: A Spoonful of Murder
Children’s literature superstar Robin Stevens joins us to talk about the latest book in her best-selling Murder Most Unladylike series, in which Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong travel to Hong Kong - and Hazel is framed for murder! Join Robin as she leads a murder mystery session followed by audience Q&A and signing. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they struggle to find any truly exciting…
Find out more »Lake Success: Roadtrip Through Trump’s America
Book Fringe is delighted to welcome Gary Shteyngart to Golden Hare Books to discuss his hilarious and satirical novel, Lake Success. Join us to hear more from one of the funniest, most acute writers you will read this year. All Book Fringe events are free and unticketed, so just come along! “Gary Shteyngart has held up a mirror to American culture that is so accurate, and so devastating, that it makes you want to break the mirror right over…
Find out more »The Melody: Music and the Myths We Create
*Please note that this event begins at 5pm.* Book Fringe is delighted that twice Booker-shortlisted Jim Crace will join us at Golden Hare Books to discuss his latest novel The Melody, an ecological fable for our times. The book follows recently widowed musician Albert Busi, whose chance encounter with a strange creature has repercussions for his town that spiral quickly out of his, and everybody’s, control. All Book Fringe events are free and unticketed, so just come along! “Superb…
Find out more »True Stories and Other Essays with Francis Spufford
*Please note that this event begins at 8pm* Book Fringe is delighted to welcome novelist and essayist Francis Spufford for an evening of conversation at Golden Hare Books. For twenty years Francis Spufford wrote very novelistic non-fiction. In 2016 with the prize-winning Golden Hill he became a novelist very interested in fact and in his most recent book, the essay collection True Stories, he reflects on the different kinds of storytelling fiction and non-fiction make possible. Join us for an evening’s conversation about…
Find out more »September 2018
The Readers’ Salon
Want to engage more with your own reading and to share favourites with like-minded readers? Love the idea of a book group but don’t like being assigned a particular book? Or do you just want more opportunities to talk books? Whatever the reason, we have just the group for you! Join us on the first Monday of every month as we chat all things bookish. It's free to come along and no booking is required - just turn up! We'll…
Find out more »Launch: Black Snow Falling by L. J. MacWhirter
Black Snow Falling is an extraordinary new fantasy novel by L. J. MacWhirter. Immerse yourself in this exciting and perilous world, and you'll never want to leave! Come and join us for a glass of wine and a discussion of this brilliant debut novel. The black sky empties itself. Shadows tumbling without end... In 1592, a girl with spirit is a threat. Ruth has secrets. An old book of heresy belonging to her long-absent father. A dream that haunts…
Find out more »Book Launch: There’s a Witch in the Word Machine, Jenni Fagan
Golden Hare Books is delighted to host the launch of award-winning poet and novelist Jenni Fagan's new poetry collection, There's a Witch in the Word Machine. Come along and celebrate the magic and power of words, listen to a reading and raise a glass to this brilliant new collection! This new book, There's a Witch in the Word Machine, is a collection that underpins Jenni Fagan’s entire approach to words. Her spell poems are portraits of people, lovers and cities:…
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