Tag: Memoir
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10th Sept 2024 – God Is An Octopus by Ben Goldsmith
Struggling to comprehend the shocking death of his teenage daughter, Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature by immersing himself in plans to rewild his farm. In July 2019, Ben Goldsmith lost his fifteen-year-old daughter, Iris, in an accident on their family farm in Somerset. Iris’s death left her family reeling. Grasping for answers, Ben threw…
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9th May 2023 – I Bought A Mountain by Thomas Firbank
First published in 1940, this is a much-loved book of North Wales by a young man who buys 5,000 acres in Snowdonia. Written on the eve of the Second World War, this memoir tells the remarkable story of how 21-year-old Thomas Firbank decided on impulse to purchase a 2,400-acre hill farm in the rugged, inhospitable…
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12th July 2022 – Return: A Palestinian Memoir by Ghada Karmi
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!
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8pm, 13th Oct 2020 – My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay
This is Lemn’s story: a story of neglect and determination, misfortune and hope, cruelty and triumph.
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8pm, 9th April – Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor by Dave Haslam *AUTHOR IN ATTENDANCE*
Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor is writer and DJ Dave Haslam’s wonderfully evocative memoir. A lively, revelatory and gloriously well-written memoir of Dave Haslam’s life and work in some of the most interesting corners of contemporary culture. It’s a masterful insider account of life at the Hacienda, the rise of Madchester and the birth of…
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8pm, 11th June – This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film. He previously worked for many years as a junior doctor. His first book ‘This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor’ was an instant Sunday Times number one bestseller and has sold over a million copies. It has been translated…
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8pm, 10th September – Educated by Tara Westover
Recommended by Barack Obama, Antony Beevor, India Knight, Blake Morrison and Nina Stibbe. Shortlisted for the 2018 BAMB Readers’ Awards. Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn’t exist. She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because…
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