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SUMMARY:Christmas Shopping Night
DESCRIPTION:Want to feel smug? Why not join us for special Christmas Late Night Shopping with mulled wine\, giveaways and the opportunity to get a jump on your Festive purchases.  Let us help you with book and gift suggestions for all your friends and family\, and maybe even a present for yourself!
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/christmas-shopping-night
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:FLF Kids Day
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2023 Farsley Literature Festival we are delighted to be able to bring you these four fantastic authors to inspire and encourage young writers and illustrators.  Our young readers will recognise their work and already know many of their books.  There are 4 sessions to attend\, so choose your favourites or come to them all! \n\n\n\nFLF is inclusive for all. If your child would like to attend but payment is a barrier please send us an email at info@trumanbooks.co.uk as we would like to help everyone have this fantastic opportunity. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10:00am – 11:00am  Join children’s football author (and Leeds Fan) Tom Palmer\, to launch two new books\, Football’s Greatest Moments and Soccer Diaries.  There’ll be a quiz\, a penalty shoot out and lots of chat about all the amazing fiction\, non-fiction\, magazines and websites you can read about the beautiful game. \nSuitable for ages 7-12 \n11:30am – 12:30pm  Join children’s author Hannah Durkan to design your own steampunk contraptions in a workshop. Hannah Durkan is the author of the Zeina Starborn series\, a fantasy adventure series filled with inventions\, explorers and mighty sea whales! \nSuitable for ages 7-12 \n1:00pm – 2:00pm  Join best-selling illustrator and author of the best-selling Fantastically Good Women series\, Kate Pankhurst for this Fantastically Great draw-along workshop.  Get your pencil cases ready as Kate explores how to bring the past to life with the time travelling power of a pencil.  We’ll be sketching suffragettes in the Votes for Women newspaper\, designing Mexican inspired self-portraits in the style of Frida Kahlo and TOP SECRET … creating case files to document the work of World War II undercover agent\, Noor Khan. \nExpect drawing games\, doodle delights and lots of inspiration to change the world with your drawing skills. \n2:30pm – 3:30pm  Reading and writing is simply playtime: the opportunity to go on any imaginative journey you please.  Join\, best-selling\, award-winning author Phil Earle as he talks about where ideas come from\, and how you can be a writer too. \nSuitable for age 8+ \nALL children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.  Only children require tickets for these events. \nThis event is part of 2023 Farsley Literature Festival. \nSupported with funding from Leeds Inspired\, part of Leeds City Council.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/flf-kids-day
LOCATION:Old Woollen\, Sunnybank Mills\, 83-85 Town Street\, Farsley\, LS28 5UJ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:An evening with Paterson Joseph
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2023 Farsley Literature Festival we are thrilled to announce an evening with beloved British actor and writer\, Paterson Joseph.  Recently seen on Vigil and Noughts and Crosses\, he has also starred in Peep Show and Law & Order UK and he plays Arthur Slugworth in the forthcoming Wonka movie. \n\n\n\nThe Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sanchois is Paterson’s debut novel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man\, especially one who has escaped slavery. After the twinkling lights in the Fleet Street coffee shops are blown out and the great houses have closed their doors for the night\, Sancho must dodge slave catchers and worse. The man he hoped would help – a kindly duke who taught him to write – is dying. \n\n\n\nSancho is desperate and utterly alone. So how does Charles Ignatius Sancho meet the King\, write and play highly acclaimed music\, become the first Black person to vote in Britain and lead the fight to end slavery?\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s time for him to tell his story\, one that begins on a tempestuous Atlantic Ocean\, and ends at the very centre of London life. And through it all\, he must ask: born amongst death\, how much can you achieve in one short life?\n \n\n\n\nThis event is part of 2023 Farsley Literature Festival. \nDoors open at 7pm\, event starts at 8pm. 
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-paterson-joseph
LOCATION:Old Woollen\, Sunnybank Mills\, 83-85 Town Street\, Farsley\, LS28 5UJ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Writing and Publishing Short Stories - with Tom Conaghan
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2023 Farsley Literature Festival\, join us in the shop as we chat to Tom Conaghan\, Editor of Scratch Books\, a publishing house dedicated to the short story. \n\n\n\nAre you interested in writing and publishing short stories?  Tom will talk about what makes the most accomplished stories; how best to listen to inspiration and then how to edit them to create rich and particular stories. Tom will also discuss magazines and journals to submit to\, how to progress to increasingly prestigious periodicals and – once you have enough stories – how to approach agents and publishers with a collection. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is part of 2023 Farsley Literature Festival.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/writing-and-publishing-short-stories
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:Genre Bending - with Caroline Bond and Linda Green
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2023 Farsley Literature Festival\, join us in the shop as we chat to these two fabulous authors and they answer your questions about genre bending. \n\n\n\nWriting in one genre is not enough for these authors\, Caroline and Linda both write across different genres – but how does that work?  Find out how their books are positioned for different markets and how publishers and readers view a change of direction. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaroline Bond was born in Scarborough and studied English at Oxford University before working as a market researcher for 25 years. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Leeds Trinity University\, and lives in Leeds with her husband and three children.\n \nCaroline’s latest book The Day We Left will be released in paperback on 2nd November 2023.\n\n \n \nLinda Green is the bestselling author of eleven novels\, which have sold 1.5million copies and been translated into 12 languages. Her previous novels have been selected for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club and the Richard and Judy Book Club.\n \nLinda\, who lives in West Yorkshire\, is a former journalist and has written for The Guardian\, The Independent on Sunday\, The Times Educational Supplement and The Big Issue.\n \nLinda’s latest book In Little Stars was released in paperback in August 2023.\n \n \nThis event is part of 2023 Farsley Literature Festival.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/genre-bending
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:Recollections of the Greenham Pioneers  with Rebecca Mordan
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2023 Farsley Literature Festival we are excited to bring you actor\, Artistic Director of Scary Little Girls and author of Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices\, Rebecca Mordan. \n\n\n\nIn 1981\, a group of women marched from Cardiff to the Greenham Common RAF base in Newbury to protest the siting of US nuclear missiles on British soil. They formed what became the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and stayed there for almost twenty years\, in what would become the largest\, most effective woman-led protest since the Suffrage campaign. Out of the Darkness reunites the women of Greenham to share their recollections of the highs and lows of camp life\, explore how they organised\, and uncover the non-violent ways they challenged military\, police and cultural forces\, all in the name of peace. \n\n\n\nWhether freeing MoD geese or dancing on silos\, whether composing songs to put their cases across in court or kissing in the face of advancing police\, this is the story of the power of creativity\, wit and courage\, and the sisterhood the Greenham women created. This book celebrates the Greenham pioneers of peaceful protest and hopes to inspire a new generation of activists. \n\n\n\nCo-authored with Kate Kerrow\, her first book\, Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices\, was published in 2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter graduating from Sheffield University with a BA in English Literature\, Rebecca spent 3 years at Bristol Old Vic. She has worked as an actor in film\, theatre and television\, and founded award-winning production hub Scary Little Girls\, to create roles and opportunities for women and populate stories with diverse female characters. \nWith SLG\, Rebecca has written\, directed\, produced and performed while working with a wide range of partners including the BFI\, Glastonbury Festival and Hall for Cornwall (for whom she is an Associate Artist). \nShe recently co-wrote and presented The Greenham Effect for the BBC’s Archive on Four\, drawing on the 200 plus testimonials she helped gather from Greenham Women as part of the Greenham Women Everywhere project she co-foundered. \n\nRebecca’s first piece of fiction for radio was featured in The UK Project\, in which she was asked to represent the Cornish voice\, out this year.  She is a founder member of KerPow\, Cornish female artists tackling sex and gender discrimination and has been a campaigner against male violence for over 25 years.\nThanks to this she is often a ‘rent-a-feminist’ guest for BBC Radio\, including You and Yours\, 5 Live and Women’s Hour\, and Sky News.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-rebecca-mordan
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:An evening with Adrian Edmondson        *** SOLD OUT ***
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2023 Farsley Literature Festival we are excited to announce an evening with actor\, comedian\, musician\, writer and television presenter Adrian Edmondson.   \n\n\n\nHow did a child brought up in a strict Methodist household – and who spent his formative years incarcerated in repressive boarding schools – end up joining the comedy revolution? Could it be in his Scandinavian (… possibly berserker) heritage? \n\n\n\nDiscover the story behind Adrian Edmondson’s journey to comedy in this riotous evening of storytelling to celebrate the release of his upcoming memoir\, Berserker!  \n\n\n\nLive on stage\, Edmondson will take audiences from his days breaking the rules at his brutal boarding school to the comedy circuit of the eighties when he finally found his place in world. Edmondson will share previously unheard stories from his comedy partnership with Rik Mayall who together created iconic sitcoms such as The Young Ones and Bottom and brought anarchy and eccentricity to stage and screen. \n\n\n\nNow a British comedy legend\, Edmondson will look back on his life and answer your own burning questions. Expect star-studded anecdotes and healthy dose of nostalgia from an extraordinary\, comedy-filled life effortlessly weaved together by Edmondson’s unique wit and gift for storytelling. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is part of 2023 Farsley Literature Festival. \nDoors open at 7pm\, event starts at 8pm.  
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-adrian-edmondson
LOCATION:Old Woollen\, Sunnybank Mills\, 83-85 Town Street\, Farsley\, LS28 5UJ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The final instalment from Chris Nickson
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2023 Farsley Literature Festival we welcome friend of the shop\, and celebrated author of multiple historical crime fiction series\, Chris Nickson as he chats about his final book in the Tom Harper series\, Rusted Souls. \n\n\n\n1920\, and Tom Harper is now the Chief Constable of Leeds\, just weeks from retirement and a chance to look after his seriously ill wife. Leading the force through the war and the Spanish influenza has taken its toll on him. But three very different cases need to be resolved first: a gang of ex-servicemen committing armed robberies at jewellery shops in the city centre\, the blackmail of a philandering Leeds alderman\, and the prospect of a gang of shoplifters descending on the town. He desperately wants to leave with a clean sheet\, and he’ll do everything possible to make it happen. You’ll also get a special taste of Leeds after the Armistice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Nickson was born in Leeds\, but lived in the United States from the age of 21\, returning to the UK in 2005. As a music journalist\, he specialised in world and roots music. The DI Tom Harper series which takes place in Leeds in the 1890s\, now includes 11 books\, Rusted Souls will be released in September and is the final book in this long running historical fiction series. \nThis event is part of 2023 Farsley Literature Festival.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/the-final-instalment-from-chris-nickson
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:A Biography of Yorkshire with Rick Broadbent
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2023 Farsley Literature Festival\, join us in the shop to hear Rick Broadbent in conversation about Now Then.  \n\n\n\nWritten from the perspective of an exiled Yorkshire-man this bestselling\, award winning author returns to his native county to discover and reveal\, its soul. \n\n\n\nNow Then is a biographical mosaic of Yorkshire. Broadbent\, goes in search of the soul of England’s biggest county and produces an all-encompassing portrait of a place that has been victimised and stereotyped since the days of Williams the Conqueror. Incorporating social history\, memoir\, reportage and author interviews\, Now Then paints a picture of what it means to be from Yorkshire – both now and back then. \n\n\n\nNow Then is not a hagiography and Broadbent visits devastated mining communities\, an inner-city homeless shelter and the county’s most isolated sheep farm\, as well as examining the truth about well-known Yorkshire figures and institutions. From the Bronte sisters and Marks & Spencer to the Yorkshire pudding\, accent and Ripper\, this is a funny\, wise and searching account of the county that gave the world its first football club and its last witch-burning. Ultimately\, this is an affectionate but unsparing look at a county\, its people and their flinty vowels. It is about the real Yorkshire and its daily life\, as well as Dracula and Geoffrey Boycott. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRick Broadbent has written for The Times for 20 years and authored and ghost-written 12 books. He has been short listed for the William Hill Prize three times and has won a British Sports Book award. \n \nHis books have included a biography of Emil Zatopek\, a Czech Olympic hero and political activist\, and That Near-Death Thing\, about the most dangerous motorcycle race in the world.\n \nRick was born in Leeds and now lives in Dorset.\n \n \nThis event is part of 2023 Farsley Literature Festival.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/a-biography-of-yorkshire
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:A Short History of Queer Women - with Kirsty Loehr
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2023 Farsley Literature Festival\, hear author Kirsty Loehr in conversation about her hilarious and informative book\, A Short History of Queer Women. \n\n\n\nDispensing with the patriarchal “drivel”\, this is a little book that packs a big punch against centuries of outrageous straightwashing. The book that reinserts queer women such as Virginia Woolf\, Anne Frank\, and Lorraine Hansberry\, back into history. \n\n\n\nNo\, they weren’t ‘just friends’! Queer women have been written out of history since\, well\, forever. ‘But historians famously care about women!’\, said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who sailed the seas together disguised as pirates\, to US football captain Megan Rapinoe declaring ‘You can’t win a championship without gays on your team’\, via countless literary salons and tuxedos\, A Short History of Queer Women sets the record straight on women who have loved other women through the ages. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKirsty Loehr is a writer and English teacher. She loves women\, football\, history and comedy—but not necessarily in that order. She currently lives in Brighton with her son AND SHE IS SINGLE. \nThis event is part of 2023 Farsley Literature Festival.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/kirsty-loehr-in-conversation
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:An Evening with The Times - bestselling series writer\, Ian Moore
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the shop for an evening with leading TV/radio comedian Ian Moore as he talks about the latest book in his Follet Valley Mystery series.  Death at the Chateau\, is the third book and follows the success of Death & Croissants and Death & Fromage. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIan Moore is a leading stand-up comedian\, known for his sharp\, entertaining punditry.  A TV/radio regular\, he stars in Dave’s satirical TV show Unspun and Channel 5’s topical comedy Big Mouths. He lives in rural France and commutes back to the UK every week. In his spare time\, he makes mean chutneys and jams.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-the-times-bestselling-series-writer-ian-moore
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:An evening with historical novelist Laura Shepherd-Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the shop for an evening with this award winning author.  Laura will be talking about and reading from her stunning must read historical novel of 2023 ‘The Square of Sevens’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Square of Sevens follows Red\, the daughter of a Cornish fortune-teller\, who travels with her father making a living predicting fortunes using the ancient method: the Square of Sevens.\nWhen her father suddenly dies\, Red becomes the ward of a gentleman scholar. Now raised as a lady amidst the Georgian splendour of Bath\, her fortune-telling is a delight to high society\, but she cannot ignore the questions that gnaw at her soul: who was her mother? How did she die? And who are the mysterious enemies her father was always terrified would find them?\nThe pursuit of these mysteries takes her from Cornwall and Bath to London and Devon\, from the rough ribaldry of the Bartholomew Fair to the grand houses of two of the most powerful families in England. And while Red’s quest brings her the possibility of great reward\, it also leads her into grave danger…
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-historical-novelist-laura-shepherd-robinson
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:Finding Home - A Windrush Story with Alford & Howard Gardner
DESCRIPTION:On 24 May 1948\, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston\, Jamaica\, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1\,027 passengers and two stowaways\, and more than two thirds of them were West Indies nationals. On 22nd June 1948 they disembarked onto the docks\, Alford Dalrymple Gardner was among them. \n\n\n\nAlford’s story traverses both the uplifting highs and intolerant lows that West Indian migrants of his generation encountered upon travelling to Britain to forge out a life. From joining the British military during World War II to returning back to Jamaica once it was won-only to come back to the UK when the government decided it needed him again-Alford witnessed milestone events of the 20th century that shaped the country he still lives in today. In the context of a supposedly ‘post-Imperial’ Britain where the lives of West Indian migrants hang precariously on the whims of the Home Office\, Alford’s heartening testimony is a celebration of those who endured hardships so that generations to come could call this place home. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted that Alford and Howard will join us in the shop to talk about this memoir ‘Finding Home’ which will be released on 22nd June. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn in 1926 in Kingston\, Jamaica\, Alford Gardner first came to England in 1944 to support the war effort\, serving in the RAF. After a brief stay back in Jamaica\, he decided to return to England to help to rebuild the country. He boarded the HMT Empire Windrush intending to build a life in the country he once called home. Despite a less than accommodating welcome back\, he persisted and succeeded in forging a better life for his family. Now 97 and twice widowed\, Alford spends all his leisure time at the bingo hall. When not playing bingo\, he can be found watching sports or spending time with his family. A much fuller sense of Alford’s life is conveyed in his autobiography: Finding Home. \nHoward Gardner\, not the American psychologist\, but a retired engineer from Leeds. Taking after his father\, Howard is a big sports fan\, especially rugby league and supports Leeds Rhinos. He also follows Leeds United\, Yorkshire Cricket team and the West Indian Cricket test team. He has spent the last two years helping his father record his memoirs.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/finding-home-a-windrush-story-with-alford-howard-gardner
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:An evening with 'Seven Sisters' Harry Whittaker
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, at The Old Woollen\, for an evening with Harry Whittaker\, to celebrate the release of the final book in the Seven Sisters series.  \n\n\n\nSpanning a lifetime of love and loss\, crossing borders and oceans\, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt\, draws Lucinda Riley’s Seven Sisters series to its stunning\, unforgettable conclusion. \n\n\n\nThe son of Lucinda Riley\, Harry became a storyteller himself\, as an award-winning radio presenter for the BBC and a member of one of the UK’s most renowned improv troupes. In 2019\, Harry and Lucinda co-authored the Guardian Angels series for children – four reassuring\, timeless stories addressing worries that a small child may have. \n\n\n\nAfter Lucinda’s death in 2021\, it was announced that Harry would complete the Seven Sisters series on behalf of his late mother. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1928\, Paris\nA boy is found\, moments from death\, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle\, precocious\, talented\, he flourishes in his new home\, and the family show him a life he hadn’t dreamed possible. But he refuses to speak a word about who he really is.\nAs he grows into a young man\, falling in love and taking classes at the prestigious Conservatoire de Paris\, he can almost forget the terrors of his past\, or the promise he has vowed to keep. But across Europe an evil is rising\, and no -one’s safety is certain. In his heart\, he knows the time will come where he must flee once more.\n \n2008\, the Aegean\nThe seven sisters are gathered together for the first time\, on board the Titan to say a final go odbye to the enigmatic father they loved so dearly.\nTo the surprise of everyone\, it is the missing sister who Pa Salt has chosen to entrust with the clue to their pasts. But for every truth revealed\, another question emerges.\nThe sisters must confront the idea that their adored father was someone they barely knew.\n \nAnd even more shockingly: that these long-buried secrets may still have consequences for them today.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-seven-sisters-harry-whittaker
LOCATION:Old Woollen\, Sunnybank Mills\, 83-85 Town Street\, Farsley\, LS28 5UJ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Kevin Sinfield Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce that Leeds Legend\, Kevin Sinfield will be joining us in the shop to meet fans and sign copies of his autobiography\, The Extra Mile. \n\n\n\nThe Extra Mile is no ordinary sports memoir. But Kevin Sinfield is no ordinary sportsman. A one-club legend of Leeds Rhinos\, who has now crossed codes as a defence coach for the England national rugby union team\, Kevin Sinfield is a rugby icon. But in recent years has shown heroism of a very different kind through his selfless and extraordinary fundraising for motor nurone disease (MND)\, the terminal illness that has affected his best mate and former teammate Rob Burrow. \n\n\n\nTold with Sinfield’s characteristic warmth\, dry wit and inspirational leadership\, The Extra Mile is the story of an astonishing life\, of an enduring friendship\, of perseverance against the most difficult of challenges\, and of a remarkable\, humble human being who has defied the odds. The book equips readers to embrace with the tools and the mindset togetherness and to overcome their own challenges. It leaves the reader with the urgent question: Who would you go the extra mile for to help in life? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe inspirational and life-affirming memoir from rugby league’s greatest player.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/kevin-sinfield-book-signing
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:An evening with Robert Welbourn
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the shop for an evening with Robert Welbourn to chat about his second novel Belonging. \n\n\n\nRobert’s debut\, Ideal Angels\, published in 2018 and received overwhelmingly positive reviews. His writing asks the question\, what is it to be human? With a BA and MA in literature\, Welbourn’s writing tries to find out how to survive in a world that feels like it doesn’t care. His fast-pace\, ironic prose may look shallow on the surface\, but in reality it makes us look into ourselves and discover who we really are. \n\n\n\nRobert’s stand-out achievement in the novel is his ability to map out the hundreds of different ways in which his protagonist strives to make connection with others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoah is young\, attractive\, and madly in love with two people. These two people are both madly in love with Noah\, yet neither knows about the other. Can Noah balance two secret relationships while trying to discover who he really is as a person? When family tragedy strikes\, how will Noah cope with all that follows? Belonging is a novel about being young and in love in a world that’s cold and uncaring. Can you ever truly know someone if you don’t know yourself? Can you find a meaning in a world that seems random and thoughtless? Does anybody\, like\, actually care?
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-robert-welbourn
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:An evening with Kate Sawyer
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the shop as we chat to Kate about her triumphant second novel\, This Family which will be released on 11th May. \n\n\n\nSplintered in a dozen different ways\, Mary’s family must come together for her wedding day in the home that has been both battleground and sanctuary for them all. The place where so many things have fallen apart will now become the site of a long-awaited union. Could it also see the mending of broken sibling bonds and the healing of bruised hearts\, or are some thing impossible to forgive? Even when it’s family? \n\n\n\nWith shades of Mrs Dalloway\, This Family is set over the course of an English summer’s day but punctuated with memories from the past forty years of love and loss\, hope and joy\, heartbreak and grief. This is the story of a family told by a chorus of characters. It is an exploration of the small moments that bring us to where we are\, the changes that are brought about by time\, and what\, despite everything\, stays the same. \n\n\n\n‘Intriguing\, gripping\, moving – this deserves to be HUGE.’ MARIAN KEYES \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKate Sawyer was born in Bury St Edmunds\, where she grew up the eldest of four siblings.  She trained in acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art\, Kate has worked as an actor since.Her debut novel\, The Stranding\, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel award\, won the East Anglian Fiction Prize and was adapted for Book at Bedtime on BBC Radio 4.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-kate-sawyer
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:An evening with Farsley author Caroline Bond
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a glass of chilled prosecco to celebrate the paperback publication of Thea & Denise by author and Farsley resident Caroline Bond. Caroline will be talking about and reading from her new book\, answering questions and signing copies of\, what is now\, her 5th novel. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEver wanted to escape it all?  Work?  Bills?  Kids? \nWhen polar opposites Thea and Denise become friends and realise they’re both in need of escape\, they embark on a Thelma and Louise – style road trip that will change them forever. \nBut they can’t outrun their pasts forever and when things start to become complicated\, both women have an important decision to make.  Do they give up or keep going? Turn around or drive on?
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-farsley-author-caroline-bond
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Event: Down to Earth by Andrew Crowther
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a glass of something cold to celebrate the publication of Down to Earth by Bradford born author Andrew Crowther. Andrew will be talking about and reading from his debut novel\, answering questions\, and signing copies. \n\n\n\nAndrew has been making up stories ever since he was a child\, forever dreaming of fantastic events\, miraculous escapes and happy endings. He is fascinated by the power of the imagination to transform this crazy life of ours into something that has shape and meaning. \n\n\n\nNew school teacher Jenny Threadneedle has lived for almost as long as she can remember in High Hants\, an enclosed idealised Little Britain located in a very\, very remote region. Founded by wealthy white English businessmen and Red Top journalists\, aghast by immigration and climate catastrophe\, life in High Hants is just perfect – unless you ask questions\, or begin to doubt this “1950s paradise” is as wonderful as claimed. A dystopian satire of tiny minds and limited outlook. Is it possible to escape and live a life more Down to Earth? \n\n\n\nDown to Earth is a cautionary tale about building a castle and pulling up the drawbridge behind you. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew has also written several plays which have been performed around Yorkshire\, including Welcome to Paradise (2003)\, Funny Men (2008)\, Working Lives (2011) and Night Secrets (2022). \nIn another part of his life\, he is the Secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society. He has written extensively about the dramatist of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas\, most notably in a well-regarded 2011 biography entitled Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan. \nDown to Earth is Crowther’s first novel. He says he doesn’t write about the real world because he’s never been there.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/launch-party-for-the-publication-of-down-to-earth-by-andrew-crowther
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:Art Offline: A conversation with Analog Sea founder Jonathan Simons
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the shop for a very special evening of readings and discussion with the founder of Analog Sea\, Jonathan Simons. \n\n\n\nAnalog Sea is an American non-profit press with a mandate to support the printed word and local literary culture\, including bookshops and libraries\, as well as championing fair compensation for writers and artists and interrogating the effects of the digital revolution on the arts and letters. Based out of Austin\, Texas\, and Freiburg\, Germany\, Analog Sea was founded in 2018 by writer and editor Jonathan Simons. \n\n\n\nThey are delighted to announce the release of the fourth edition of its award-winning literary journal\, The Analog Sea Review\, a print-only hardback edition of poetry\, essays\, interviews\, short fiction\, and artwork. \n\n\n\nJonathan will read from his essay “Toward a New Renaissance” from the introduction of The Analog Sea  Review\, Number Four\, and other texts from the journal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nAs an offline publisher distributing exclusively to physical bookshops\, Analog Sea “wishes for books to be traded between human beings and not relegated to robots and algorithms. Digital platforms are great for efficiency and massification\, but they believe that efficiency and massification are in no way acceptable strategies for handling the arts and letters.  Analog Sea explores these questions through their various publications\, including their offline literary journal\, The Analog Sea Review.”\n 
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/art-offline-a-conversation-with-analog-sea-founder-jonathan-simons
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:An evening with JM Hall
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to welcome back Yorkshire crime writer\, Jonathan Hall to the shop to chat about his latest release A Pen Dipped in Poison.  Hall’s debut novel\, A Spoonful of Murder is about retired primary school teachers who turn to sleuthing and has sold over 59\,000 copies to date. \n\n\n\nJ.M. Hall is an author\, playwright and deputy head of a primary school. His plays have been produced in theatres across the UK as well as for radio\, the most recent being Trust\, starring Julie Hesmondhalgh on BBC Radio 4.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRetired school teachers Liz\, Pat and Thelma are back at their usual table at the Thirsk Garden Centre café with a brand-new mystery to solve. \nCurious white envelopes have been delivered to friends and neighbours. Inside are letters revealing the deepest secrets they have tried to hide.  As one by one\, careers are ended\, marriages destroyed and no one is beyond suspicion\, the three friends decide enough is enough.  They must take matters into their own hands before more damage is done.  But as they work to uncover the truth\, they begin to wonder just how far someone will go to silence this poison pen … Could a murderer be in their midst once again? \nA totally addictive and page-turning cosy mystery featuring these very unlikely sleuths.  Fans of Agatha Christie and Midsomer Murders will be hooked from the very first page.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-jm-hall
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SUMMARY:CBeebies Star George Webster Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:We are beyond excited to announce that Leeds born CBeebies star\, Bafta winner\, author and Ambassador for People with Down’s syndrome\, George Webster will be joining us in the shop to meet fans and sign his debut book\, This is Me! \n\n\n\nGeorge has teamed up with bestselling illustrator Tim Budgen to publish this uplifting and full-of-heart\, powerful picture book to show children that not only are they amazing\, but their friends\, family and even people they haven’t yet met are amazing too! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome along to meet George in the bookshop and get your copy of This is Me! personally signed.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/cbeebies-star-george-webster-book-signing
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:An evening with Ann Cleeves
DESCRIPTION:Ann Cleeves is the author of more than thirty-five critically acclaimed novels and we are thrilled to announce that she will be joining us for an evening at The Old Woollen.  Ann will talk about the tenth book in her Vera Stanhope series\, The Rising Tide which will be released in paperback on 16 March. \n\n\n\nIn 2017 Ann was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing\, the CWA Diamond Dagger. She is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope\, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn\, who can be found on television in ITV’s Vera\, BBC One’s Shetland and ITV’s The Long Call respectively. The TV series and the books they are based on have become international sensations\, capturing the minds of millions worldwide. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA school reunion turns deadly as the tide rises on Northumbria’s Holy Island. Fifty years ago\, a group of teenagers spent a weekend on Holy Island\, forging a bond that has lasted a lifetime. Now\, they still return every five years to celebrate their friendship\, and remember the friend they lost to the rising waters of the causeway at the first reunion. Now\, when one of them is found hanged\, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations\, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding\, and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then\, and now. But with the tide rising\, secrets long-hidden are finding their way to the surface\, and Vera and the team may find themselves in more danger than they could have believed possible . . .
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-ann-cleeves
LOCATION:Old Woollen\, Sunnybank Mills\, 83-85 Town Street\, Farsley\, LS28 5UJ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Harriet Muncaster Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce that Harriet Muncaster\, internationally bestselling author and illustrator of the Isadora Moon series of young reader books\, will be joining us in the shop to sign her latest book. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIsadora Moon is a hugely popular series of books for children aged 5–8. Each book is a stand-alone story about Isadora Moon\, who is “half fairy\, half vampire\, totally unique!” The stories celebrate her mixed family heritage. In February 2020\, 300 bookshops and libraries in the UK\, including Truman Books\, celebrated “Isadora Moon Day”. \nThe series has since been translated into 30 languages and has sold over 1.2 million copies globally. There are 16 books in the series; the latest was published in October 2022\, and the next is due in spring 2023.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/harriet-muncaster-book-signing
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:Festive Late Night Shopping
DESCRIPTION:Come and enjoy our Christmas Special late night shopping event.  With a glass of mulled wine\, mince pies\, Christmas present recommendations and a bit of bookish chat.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/late-night-shopping-10
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:A Curious History of Sex - An Evening with Dr Kate Lister
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Farsley Literature Festival we are thrilled that Dr Kate Lister writer of A Curious History of Sex\, will be joining us at The Constitutional for a fascinating evening of discussion. This one will be fun. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Kate Lister is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Leeds Trinity University. She is the author of A Curious History of Sex (Unbound\, 2020) and has also published in the medical humanities\, Victorian Studies\, and medievalism. Her most recent book\, Harlots\, Whores\, and Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale was published by Thames and Hudson in 2021. She is the host of the Betwixt the Sheets Podcast and tweets about her research under the alias @WhoresofYore 
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-dr-kate-lister
LOCATION:The Constitutional\, 51 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:Choose Joy with Sophie Cliff
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to welcome Sophie Cliff (aka The Joyful Coach) to the shop for an evening of inspiring chat. \n\n\n\nSophie is a certified coach and positive psychology practitioner who uses her expertise to help individuals and organisations flourish by finding more joy and prioritising wellbeing. Choose Joy: Relieve Burnout\, Focus on Your Happiness\, and Infuse More Joy into Your Everyday Life is her first book.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEarly in her career\, Sophie scaled the corporate ranks at companies like the Walt Disney Company and venture-backed start-ups. But while on paper her life seemed perfect\, she couldn’t fight the feeling that there was something missing. When a family tragedy shook her life\, Sophie decided to stop delaying decisions and following the wrong path. In 2018\, she started The Joyful Coach\, a business helping individuals and companies find purpose and joy.  \n  \nNow through her coaching\, workshops and chart-topping podcast\, Practical Positivity\, Sophie helps people all over the world lead more joyful lives and has way more fun than she ever had in her previous career.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/choose-joy-with-sophie-cliff
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Cressida McLaughlin
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Farsley Literature Festival we are excited to announce that this bestselling author and queen of feel-good fiction will be joining us in the shop. Come along for a festive evening with mulled wine to chat about her glittering new Christmas read The Cornish Cream Tea Bookshop. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOllie Spencer has started a new life in the idyllic Cornish seaside town of Port Karadow. Throwing herself into her job at the town’s bookshop\, A New Chapter\, is one way to make friends. The shop is glitzing up for its grand opening and Ollie hopes her inspired ideas will give the shop the edge it needs to dazzle the town.But far from being the Christmas fairy the place needs\, Ollie is fast becoming its Christmas pudding. With the bookshop’s future at stake\, Ollie turns to twinkly-eyed café owner Max for help. Can he help Ollie to turn the page\, and put the sparkle back into her Cornish dream?
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-cressida-mclaughlin
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SUMMARY:An evening with Bethany Clift
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Farsley Literature Festival we are excited to announce that Bethany will be in the shop to  chats about her new book which was released on 4th August \n\n\n\nBethany Clift is a graduate of the Northern Film School and the director of her own production company\, Saber Productions. Her debut novel\, Last One at the Party\, was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2021 and the television rights have been optioned by Scott Free Films. Love and Other Human Errors is Bethany’s second novel and she is currently working on her third novel as well as two television series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn unforgettable story about love in all its chaotic glory from the author of Last One At The Party. \n\n\n\nA book synopsis is fundamentally ridiculous. How can I possibly convey\, in only 100 words\, the events of the past year and their impact on my perfectly ordered existence? It is insufficient space to accurately detail how I was blackmailed into demonstrating my flawless algorithm to find a soulmate\, despite having no desire for one. In my former life I avoided trivial human connections. \n\n\n\nI was alone\, accomplished and brilliant. Unfortunately\, that solitary and driven woman no longer exists. My name is Indiana Dylan and this is the extraordinary account of how I fell in love. \n\n\n\nThere: 100 words exactly.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-bethany-clift
LOCATION:Truman Books\, 95 Town Street\, Farsley\, Leeds\, LS28 5HX
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SUMMARY:An evening with Robin Ince
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7pm\, event starts at 8pm \n\n\n\nRobin Ince is co-presenter of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 show and podcast\, The Infinite Monkey Cage. He has toured his award-winning stand-up across the world\, both solo and with his radio double-act partner\, Professor Brian Cox. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobin Ince\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy play to 12\,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021\, Robin Ince’s stadium tour with Professor Brian Cox was postponed due to the pandemic. Rather than do nothing\, he decided instead to go on a tour of over a hundred bookshops in the UK\, from Wigtown to Penzance; from Swansea to Margate\, and yes even to Farsley! \n\n\n\nPacked with witty anecdotes and tall tales\, Bibliomaniac takes the reader on a journey across Britain as Robin explores his lifelong love of bookshops and books – and also tries to find out just why he can never have enough of them. \n\n\n\nIt is the story of an addiction and a romance\, and also of an occasional points failure just outside Oxenholme.
URL:https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-robin-ince
LOCATION:Old Woollen\, Sunnybank Mills\, 83-85 Town Street\, Farsley\, LS28 5UJ\, United Kingdom
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