Creative Writing Workshop for 11-14 years with Explore Learning

Truman Books 95 Town Street, Farsley, Leeds

Join our Creative writing session and help festival goers have the best experience! You start working for ‘Explore Events’ and are tasked with putting on a festival. Students must consider how their writing will guide the audience through the festival’s website. Skills include: Identify your audience, using effective vocabulary and structuring your writing.

Free

Alastair Chisholm Book Signing

Truman Books 95 Town Street, Farsley, Leeds

Children's Author Alastair Chisholm will be joining us in the shop to meet readers and sign copies of his new book The Consequence Girl.

Free

Jennifer Saint is Back!

Truman Books 95 Town Street, Farsley, Leeds

To celebrate Independent Bookshop Week, we are so pleased to have Jennifer Saint back in the shop to sign copies of her No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller ELEKTRA   The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance.This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably …

Free

Late Night Shopping

Truman Books 95 Town Street, Farsley, Leeds

Come and enjoy a glass of bubbles, a bit of bookish chat and some after hours browsing in our late night shopping event!

Free

An evening with Stu Hennigan

Truman Books 95 Town Street, Farsley, Leeds

Join us in the shop for an evening with Stu Hennigan to chat about his first non-fiction title Ghost Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic. Ghost Signs is an eyewitness account of the author's experiences delivering essential food and medicine to some of Leeds' most vulnerable communities in the early stages of the pandemic during the …

£5.00

An evening with Dean de la Motte

Truman Books 95 Town Street, Farsley, Leeds

Oblivion: The Lost Diaries of Branwell Brontë is both a compelling reconstruction of the life of the famous literary sisters’ often misunderstood brother and a dramatic, sweeping portrayal of a century in rapid transition to modernity. It is a meticulous, loving tribute to the language, structure and themes of the Brontës’ own works, as de …

£5.00

Late Night Shopping

Truman Books 95 Town Street, Farsley, Leeds

Come and enjoy a glass of bubbles, a bit of bookish chat and some after hours browsing in our late night shopping event! This month we have some summer vibes - come and find out about the must-have holiday reads to slip into your suitcase!

An evening with Bethany Rutter, Laura Kay & Lily Lindon

Truman Books 95 Town Street, Farsley, Leeds

These three fabulous authors will be joining us in the shop for lots of bubbles and bookish chat. 'Welcome to your Life' by Bethany Rutter Serena Mills should be at her wedding, instead she’s eating an ice cream sundae and drinking an obscenely large glass of wine in a Harvester off the M25. Everyone thinks …

£5.00

Kids’ Book Club

Truman Books 95 Town Street, Farsley, Leeds

Join our Kids' Book Club for 9-12 year olds where we discuss our August book When I See Blue. Book your ticket then call into the shop to pick up your book, then attend the event later after you have (hopefully!) read the book. When I See Blue is about Ben. New town, new school, …

£7.99

Special Storytime

Truman Books 95 Town Street, Farsley, Leeds

Join our Special Storytime for children who are about to start school. We will be reading stories and talking about being brave and trying new things (as much for parents as the little ones!)