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Victoria Hislop Wednesday 4th November - 7.30pm Victoria Hislop returns to Crete in this long-anticipated sequel to her multi-million-copy No 1 bestseller, The Island. Ticket includes a copy of
One August Night
First 50 registrants will receive a signed copy When time stops dead for Maria Petrakis and her sister, Anna, two families splinter apart and, for the people of Plaka, the closure of Spinalonga is forever coloured with tragedy.
In the aftermath, the question of how to resume life looms large. Stigma and scandal need to be confronted and somehow, for those impacted, a future built from the ruins of the past.
Victoria Hislop returns to the world and characters she created in The Island - the award-winning novel that remains one of the biggest selling reading group novels of the century. It is finally time to be reunited with Anna, Maria, Manolis and Andreas in the weeks leading up to the evacuation of the island ... and beyond. This is an online event on Zoom for which booking is required. Once registered you will receive an email with access codes to the event. You will also receive a reminder a day before and an hour before the event. A hardback copy of One August Night will be posted to you. This event is a collaboration between Penguin Live and The 4indies (Booka, Linghams, Books-ish and Forum Books) NB Anyone who has already pre-ordered a copy of One August Night from Booka will be contacted and forwarded the code to access the event.
Tickets: £18 plus booking fee (includes access to the event and a copy of One August Night delivered to your door)
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Japer Rees in conversation
with Jane Wymark
Mon 16th Nov- 7.30pm We are thrilled to announce this UK event with Jasper Rees and actress Jane Wymark, best known for her roles on the BBC drama Poldark and the television series Midsomer Murders.
Ticket includes a copy of Let's Do It - the first 50 registrants will receive a signed copy
Wood's career was one of the most illustrious and wide-ranging in British comedy, and it was a great sadness that, when she died in 2016 at the age of 62, she had not yet got around to telling her own remarkable life story.
'I will do it one day,' she told journalist and author Jasper Rees, who interviewed her more than anyone else. 'It would be about my childhood, about my first few years in showbusiness, which were really interesting and would make a really nice story.'
Now Jasper Rees will finally tell her rich story in full. He has been given complete and exclusive access to Victoria's extensive archive of personal and professional material, and has conducted interviews with her family, friends and collaborators - including Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Dawn French and many others.
Jasper Rees is an arts journalist and author who has written for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and theartsdesk.com, which he co-founded.
Jane Wymark and Victoria Wood met in 1971 at Birmingham University and were friends for the rest of Victoria's life. They never worked together but were in constant touch and, more than anything, the thing they had in common was that they were both avid readers. They also corresponded frequently, by letter, then fax, then email, and Jane donated this vast stash to Jasper when he was working on LET'S DO IT. It made all the difference, enabling Jasper to know so much more about Victoria at the key moments in her life when she was working on As Seen on TV, touring as a stand-up and making dinnerladies. This is an online event on Zoom for which booking is required. Once registered you will receive an email with access codes to the event. You will also receive a reminder a day before and an hour before the event. A hardback copy of Let's Do It will be posted to you. This online event is brought to you by At Home with 4 Indies – a collaboration between Booka, Linghams, Book-ish & Forum Books. Tickets: £23 (Includes a copy of Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood delivered to your door)
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Jamie Carragher
in conversation with Sky TV's
Geoff Shreeves Tues 17th Nov - 7.30pm
Tickets £23 includes a copy of
The Greatest Games -
the first 100 to register will receive a signed book-plated edition
In The Greatest Games, Liverpool legend and Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher explores the games that have shaped his love of football – as a player, as a pundit and as a lifelong fan. Offering unique insights into his own playing career, forensic analysis of the game, and the trademark humour and honesty for which he is known. Inspired by his number one podcast, and told with his trademark wit, humour, intelligence and passion, The Greatest Games sees Carra speak to teammates, rivals, managers and some of the biggest names in the game. With their help, Jamie celebrates the sport and shines a fresh light on a selection of the beautiful game's greatest matches – title deciders, cup finals, against all odds comebacks, underdog tales, old school classics, tactical masterclasses and end to end thrillers. Carragher says: 'I want to look back at those special games that, as a kid, made me fall in love with the game; tell some of the untold stories about the big games I was lucky enough to play in and reflect on the great matches that, since retiring, I've been privileged to witness as a pundit and a fan.' Jamie Carragher was born on 28 January 1978 and after making his way through Liverpool's youth ranks, made his debut for the first team aged eighteen. He played over 700 games for Liverpool, the 2nd most of any player in the club's history, winning the Champions League as well as 10 other major trophies. He also made 38 appearances for England. Since retirement, Jamie has gone on to become one of the country's top football pundits and analysts. This is an online event on Zoom for which booking is required. Once registered you will receive an email with access codes to the event. You will also receive a reminder a day before and an hour before the event. A hardback copy of The Greatest Game will be posted to you.
This online event is brought to you by At Home with 4 Indies – a collaboration between Booka, Linghams, Book-ish & Forum Books. Tickets £23 (includes a copy of The Greatest Games delivered to your door) The first 100 registrants will receive a signed book-plated edition
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Andrew Cotter Wed 18th November - 7.30pm Calling dog lovers everywhere for this pawesome event with one of our best-loved commentators. Ticket includes a signed & paw-printed copy of Olive, Mabel and Me
When Andrew Cotter turned his brilliant sporting commentaries from the Masters, the Open, Wimbledon and the Six Nations to the lockdown contests between his two Labradors, Olive and Mabel, the result was an internet sensation. The series of videos - including Game of Bones - has been viewed well over 50 million times on social media, and the videos have resonated with dog owners and sports fans everywhere.
In OLIVE, MABEL AND ME, Andrew gives us a commentary of a different kind as he tells the heart-warming story of life with his two famous Labradors, Olive and Mabel. This is the full story of their rise to internet stardom and how walking and climbing in the mountains helps them all find peace, joy and happiness away from the hectic world of the media.
Above all, however, this is a book about the love we have for our dogs and the companionship and joy we can find from sharing our lives with our fabulous canine friends, as Andrew has done with dogs throughout his life.
Beautifully written, touching and laugh out loud funny, OLIVE, MABEL AND ME is a treat for dog lovers everywhere.
This is an online event on Zoom for which booking is required. Once registered you will receive an email with access codes to the event. You will also receive a reminder a day before and an hour before the event. A copy of Olive, Mabel and Me will be posted to you. This online event is brought to you by At Home with 4 Indies – a collaboration between Booka, Linghams, Book-ish & Forum Books. Tickets: £23 (Includes a copy of Olive, Mabel and Me with bookplate delivered to your door)
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David Baddiel
Thurs 19th November - 6.00pm From million-copy bestselling author David Baddiel comes a laugh-out-loud and inspiring new adventure for all readers of 8 and up that is ahead of its time – 1,001 years ahead,
to be precise… Ticket includes a copy of Future Friend posted to your door! The year is 3020.
Pip@256X#YY.3_7 is lonely and bored: she goes to virtual school on her G-Glasses, she only has a talking cat and parrot to hang out with, and she can't even leave her LivingSpace due to the extreme heat and floods outside.
Until the day that Pip explores a glowing ring in a lab and finds herself in a warehouse, in 2019.
Where she meets boy-inventor Rahul – who is also lonely and bored.
Together, Rahul and Pip are no longer lonely. But they have a whole load of new problems, including hiding talking animals from Rahul's parents, and finding a way back to the future.
Plus – just maybe – saving the world… Future Friend is a terrifically entertaining time-slip adventure that combines action, laugh-out-loud humour and the importance of friendship, in a story that asks the question – what would happen if your best friend came from the future? This is an online event on Zoom for which booking is required. Once registered you will receive an email with access codes to the event. You will also receive a reminder a day before and an hour before the event. A hardback copy of Future Friend will be posted to you. This online event is brought to you by At Home with 4 Indies – a collaboration between Booka, Linghams, Book-ish & Forum Books. Tickets £16 (includes a hardback copy of Future Friend delivered to your door) |  Online Event
Garth Nix Tues 10th Nov - 7.30pm
Tickets £22 includes a copy of
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Join At Home With 4 Indies alongside best-selling fantasy author Garth Nix, as he talks about his new book The Left-Handed Booksellers of London. A girl's quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers who police the mythical Old World of England when it intrudes on the modern world. From the bestselling master of fantasy, Garth Nix. In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met.
Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but Susan doesn't get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin. Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller (one of the fighting ones), who with the right-handed booksellers (the intellectual ones), are an extended family of magical beings who police the mythic and legendary Old World when it intrudes on the modern world, in addition to running several bookshops. Susan's search for her father begins with her mother's possibly misremembered or misspelt surnames, a reading room ticket, and a silver cigarette case engraved with something that might be a coat of arms.
Merlin has a quest of his own, to find the Old World entity who used ordinary criminals to kill his mother. As he and his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien, tread in the path of a botched or covered-up police investigation from years past, they find this quest strangely overlaps with Susan's. Who or what was her father? Susan, Merlin, and Vivien must find out, as the Old World erupts dangerously into the New. This is an online event on Zoom for which booking is required. Once registered you will receive an email with access codes to the event. You will also receive a reminder a day before and an hour before the event. A hardback copy of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London will be posted to you.
This online event is brought to you by At Home with 4 Indies – a collaboration between Booka, Linghams, Book-ish & Forum Books. Tickets £23 (includes a copy of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London delivered to your door)
| | Booka News Thank You! We want to say a BIG BIG thank you to everyone who has shopped with us since we re-opened the bookshop for browsing on 16th June. It's been lovely to welcome you back! Thanks for following our guidelines for shopping safely with us. Things have gone smoothly and we hope that even with the various measures in place you are still enjoying your book buying experience! Opening Hours From November we will be open until 5.00pm on Saturday's! Our café will also stay open a little longer, with last orders at 4.00pm, to give you extra time for that weekend coffee, cake and books hit. Can't wait to see you soon! Christmas After Hours Browsing This year, we are offering exclusive "after hours" shopping, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings throughout November. There will be a very limited number of people in the shop at any one time, giving you plenty of space to browse as well as some one-to-one time with our booksellers!
Tickets are £5, redeemable against purchases made on the night - to include a glass of bubbly and plenty of festive cheer. Appointments are 16:30-17:15 or 17:30-18:15. Pop into the shop or call or email to book your slot. Home Delivery Now that we're open again we plan to continue with our home delivery service, but reduce the frequency of when we will deliver. Home delivery will now take place once a week on a Friday afternoon. Stay safe, keep reading! | | |
