Join us at the charming setting of the Old Woollen for a fantastic evening with TV Presenter and judge of the BAFTA-nominated BBC series, The Great British Sewing Bee, Patrick Grant. Patrick will be in conversation with William Gaunt about his career which spans almost two decades in the fashion industry. Don't miss out on …
Join us in the shop to talk to debut author Pip Fallow about his compelling memoir, Dragged Up Proppa. Pip Fallow left school illiterate, prepared only for a life down the mines. This is his story of working-class life in northern England, and the country that would leave people like him behind. Dragged Up …
Join us in the shop as we welcome Pudsey based Sports Journalist, James Oddy and will be joined in conversation with Leeds legend Alan Smith. Alan played almost 500 games from the 1960s until the 1980s, winning a league title and a Challenge Cup. Alan also played for Great Britain, winning the 1970s Ashes. Alan …
Join us in the shop as we celebrate the launch of a new gritty Scottish crime series by Liz Mistry, and she introduces us to The Blood Promise. Liz moved to West Yorkshire in the late 1980s. Her gritty crime fiction police procedural novels set in Bradford embrace the city she describes as ‘Warm, Rich and Fearless’ …
Join us in the shop to welcome these two local published authors as they chat about the process of transferring scribbles into publication. Sally Hart lives in Pudsey, with her husband and their two children. After working as a cardiac nurse for over twenty years, she decided to take a twelve-month career break and write …
We are delighted to welcome debut novelist, Emily Usher, to the shop to talk about her first release 'Wild Ground.' In this tender and moving debut, Emily presents an aching love story impossible to forget. Braiding together past and present, Wild Ground introduces us to a young woman both coming of age and coming to …
Join us in the shop to raise a glass, as we celebrate the release of a new compulsive thriller by Caroline Bond, writing as Rachel North, ‘Happily Never After.’ Caroline is a long time friend of the shop and this is a new release under a different name, we are very excited to see it. …
We are delighted to announce a very special storytime with children's author Susannah Lloyd, the writer of Here Be Dragons, The Terribly Friendly Fox and This Book Can Read Your Mind. Susannah lives in Yorkshire with her family and loves reading stories to her two sons. Picture book sections in libraries and book shops are her …
Join us in the shop as we meet Leeds based author Sarah Brooks and talk to her about her debut nostalgic fiction novel The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands. 'A woman on the platform with a borrowed name. A disgraced naturalist determined to discover miracles. A child with a dangerous secret.' Filled with wild …
We are delighted to welcome AJ West to the shop to talk about his latest release 'The Betrayal of Thomas True'. Set amidst the hidden world of Georgian London’s 'gay' scene, this is a brutal and devastating thriller, where love must overcome evil, and the only true sin is betrayal ... It is the year …
Join us in the shop for an evening with Manchester author, Dr Natalie Cawley as she introduces her debut book Just About Coping. In honest stories from her own life crises and the experiences of some of her patients as she trains to be a psychotherapist, Dr Natalie Cawley takes us on a journey into …
Join us in the shop for something very different, with drinks and escape room challenges, as author L.D. Smithson talks to us about her gripping new thriller - The Escape Room. In February 2024 Leona published her first stand-alone thriller, The Escape Room, under the name L.D. Smithson. Her second standalone, The Shame Game, is …
