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Current Exhibition
"We left for a good reason and never looked back" Portraits by Noel Basualdo
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We regularly hold events at our bookshop such as readings and book signings.
Previous Events held at Broadway Bookshop
The Canal by Lee Rourke
Tuesday, 3 August 2010 at 7.00pm
We're delighted to welcome back Hackney author Lee to read from his first novel which is set along Regent's Canal. Lee has already released an edition of short stories and and is a well-known voice on the underground and online literary scene.
Tickets £3 including wine, please call, email or drop in to book.
Time out First Thursday + Private View
Thursday, 5 August 2010 at 6.00pm
Our second First Thursday and the private view of our latest exhibition of portraits by Noel Basualdo. Come along to meet the artist as well as some of her models.
Unitl 9pm
www.firsthursdays.co.uk
Talking the Broads - an evening with new writers
Tuesday, 29 June 2010 at 7.00pm
Our regular spot for new writers is back. Organised by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, this time it features Emma Henderson, Kati Rynne, Melissa Mann and Selma Dabbagh.
Emma grew up in London and lives there now. She spent several years working in France, before returning, in 2005, to focus on writing. She gained a MA, with distinction, in Creative Writing at Birkbeck in 2006, and was a finalist in the 2007 Asham Award. She will be reading from her first novel, published this month, Grace Williams Says It Loud, described by Patrick McCabe as ‘Startlingly assured, poetic and engaging’.
Kati (www.katirynne.wordpress.com) co-wrote the novel A Vauxhall Chorus (CompletelyNovel, 2009). She is currently workshopping her teenage thriller in schools, is drafting a contemporary melodrama and developing a fiction series for young girls. Kati produces and manages digital literature projects such as online reading groups, websites for writers and collaborative storytelling projects. She co-founded the writing show Snog, Shag, Marry, Kill and is a regular performer at the Poetry Café, Covent Garden.
Melissa (www.melissamann.com) is the brawn behind lit club Beat the Dust (www.beatthedust.com) which includes the litzine, BTD TV, an online bookshop and a small press. Her poetry and prose has been widely published in various short story anthologies and literary magazines, as well as the odd bus shelter and public convenience. Melissa has had stories short-listed and highly commended in the Harpers & Queen/Orange Prize for Fiction short story competition, The Asham Award (twice) and the London Arts New Writing competition. Her poetry book, baby, i'm ready to go is out now, published by Grievous Jones Press (www.grievousjonespress.com).
Selma's (www.selmadabbagh.com) work first appeared in the Fish publishing anthologies that comprised winnings entries to the 2004 and 2005 short story prizes. In 2005, Selma was nominated by English PEN for International PEN’s David TK Wong Short Story Prize. Her stories have since appeared in anthologies pubished by Telegram Books, Granta, the British Council and International PEN.
As always aspiring writers seeking advice and inspiration as well as readers interested in something new are all welcome so do come along for an evening of reading and discussion.
Please call or drop in to book, tickets £3 including wine.
Time Out First Thursdays
Thursday, 1 July 2010 at 6.00pm
We're delighted to announce that we've joined Time Out First Thursdays so we shall now be open until 9pm on the first Thursday of each month for you to view our exhibitions and of course browse books.
Our current exhibition is by local photographer Eanna Freeney so please do come along to see his work.
Details of other participating galleries can be found at www.firstthursdays.co.uk
Andes by Michael Jacobs read by Nigel Planer
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 at 7.00pm
We are delighted to be hosting an evening with author and regular customer Michael Jacobs who will discussing his new book Andes with the actor Nigel Planer reading extracts. In this vast and wonderful book Michael takes us on a journey along the entire length of the Andes mountain range. Along the way he uncovers the stories of those who have shared his fascination and reveals the secrets of a region steeped in history, science, myth and danger.
Michael was born in Italy and studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute in London. He is the author of several travel books including The Factory of Light. He lives in Spain and London.
Tickets £3 including wine, please call or drop in to book.
Meditations For Everyday Life with John McBretney
Tuesday, 25 May 2010 at 6.30pm
Suitable for everyone, this talk is based on a series of guided meditation CDs entitled, Meditations for Everyday Life. The talk will be given by John McBretney, the Resident Teacher at Heruka Centre in London, and will consist of a guided meditation, a short explanation on how to develop a meditation practice, followed by an opportunity to ask questions.
This is a free event but booking is essential and in this case it should be done directly with the Heruka Centre on 020 8455 7563, not through bookshop.
www.meditateinlondon.org.uk/bookstore-talks.php
Andrew Pegram - Private View
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 at 6.00pm
Please join us to meet the artist and for a glass of wine at the private view of Andrew's exhibition here at the shop.
6pm to 8pm
Author signing of Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
Saturday, 6 March 2010 at 11.00am
Iain Sinclair will be here signing copies of the paperback edition of his book Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire.
Details of times are to be confirmed so please check the website nearer the time.
Free
The Andes with Jason Wilson
Tuesday, 9 March 2010 at 7.00pm
We are looking forward to introducing travel writer Jason Wilson who will be here to talk about his new book The Andes.
Jason has spent decades travelling and studying Spanish America. He has written books on poets Octavio Paz (1989), Jorge Luis Borges (2006) and Pablo Neruda (2008), a Traveller's Literary Companion to South and Central America (1993), and a literary guide, Buenos Aires, a Cultural and Literary Companion (1999). He has edited and translated Alexander von Humboldt’s Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent (1995, for Penguin Classics), Octavio Paz’s Itinerary (1999) and Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre’s Journey to Mauritius (2002). His latest book is a cultural guide titled The Andes (Signal Books, Oxford, 2009).
Tickets £3 including wine, please call, email or drop in to book.
The Thirties: An Intimate History with Juliet Gardiner
Tuesday, 23 March 2010 at 7.00pm
We are delighted to be joined by local author Juliet Gardiner to talk about her latest book The Thirties: An Intimate History, which follows the complex experiences of as many British people as possible as they lived through those complex pre-war years.
Juliet is a hugely respected historian and commentator on British social history from Victorian times to the 1950s. She was editor of History Today magazine and is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling Wartime: Britain 1939 -1945. She is a frequent broadcaster, lecturer and reviewer and was historical consultant on Channel Four’s The 1940s House and the film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s Atonement.
Tickets £3 including wine, please call, email or drop in to book.
An Evening with Three Poets
Tuesday, 2 February 2010 at 7.00pm
We're very excited to be hosting an evening dedicated to poetry with Claudia Jessop, Catherine M Brennan and Sheila Hillier.
Claudia has lived in Hackney for 16 years. Her poems have been published in a number of magazines, and her first collection, "This is the Woman Who" was published by Cinnamon Press in October 2009, "a remarkable first collection from a poet whose sense are clearly open to the tiniest nuances of life lived in everyday objects and routines".
Prize winning poet Catherine M Brennan was born in Dublin and works in education in London. She has recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and her first collection, Beneath the Deluge, is published by Cinnamon Press.
Sheila is a medical sociologist and has worked in China, Latin America and the Caribbean. Now Professor Emeritus at Bart’s and The London School of Medicine in London, she divides her time between London, China and France. She won the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Prize in 2009, was commended in the 2006 National Poetry Competition for her poem ‘Pollux and Castor, elephants’,and in the 2006 Mslexia competition. A first collection of her poetry ‘A Quechua Confession Manual’ is forthcoming from Cinnamon Press in June 2010.
Tickets £3 including wine, please call or drop in to book.
Dress Behind Bars with Juliet Ash
Tuesday, 16 February 2010 at 7.00pm
We look forward to welcoming local author and regular customer Juliet Ash who will be reading from and discussing her recent book Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality that was published by I.B. Tauris at the end of 2009.
Juliet is Tutor of Dress and Textiles History and Theory at the Royal College of Art. She is co-author with Professor Elizabeth Wilson of Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader and has written a number of articles for books and journals on the subject of the History and Theory of Dress. She has been a resident of London Fields for more than 30 years.
Tickets £3 including wine, please call or drop in to book.
Hackney: Modern, Restored, Forgotten, Ignored
Tuesday, 8 December 2009 at 7.00pm
Marking the fortieth anniversary of the Hackney Society, their latest publication looks at forty buildings in the borough. The editor Lisa Rigg and three of the contributing authors, Tom Dyckhoff, Margaret Willes and Sarah Wise, will be here for reading and discussion.
Tickets £3 (free to Hackney Society members), includes wine, booking essential.
Late night shopping on Broadway Market
Thursday, 10 December 2009 at 6.00pm
Come along for shopping, refreshment and entertainment until 9pm.
Late night shopping on Broadway Market
Thursday, 17 December 2009 at 6.00pm
More shopping until 9pm.
Private View: Nomad by Geoff Gunby
Friday, 30 October 2009 at 6.00pm
Join us for a glass of wine to celebrate the opening of the latest exhibition of etchings, drawings and photographs by Geoff Gunby.
6pm to 8pm
Talking the Broads: an evening with new writers
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 at 7.00pm
Our regular spot for new writers returns and this time we'll be meeting Zoe Deleuil, James Miller, Leslie Mapp and Katy Darby.
Zoe was born in Perth, Western Australia but has lived in London since 2001. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and is working on the second draft of her first novel. She works as a freelance writer and sub editor.
One of Time Out Magazine’s Rising Stars of 2008, James was born in London in July 1976, and has always wanted to write. He read English literature at Keble College, Oxford University and after some time spent travelling, took an MA in Anglo-American literature at University College London and a PhD in African-American Literature at King's College London. Having taught English Literature at various levels, he now teaches on the creative writing MA at South Bank University. The highly acclaimed Lost Boys is his first novel.
Leslie trained as a painter, but he didn't work hard enough to be good so he turned to words – they seemed easier to mould into surface and depth and colour and shape. Mind you, they also go muddy if you mix them up the wrong way, so Leslie is keeping his stories short, in the hope of disguising the runny bits and the drips.
Katy studied English at Oxford and Creative Writing at UEA, where she received the David Higham Award. Her work has won several prizes, has been read on BBC Radio, and appeared in various magazines and anthologies including Stand, Mslexia, and The London Magazine. She co-runs the monthly live fiction event Liars' League (www.liarsleague.com) and teaches Short Story Writing at City University in London.
Aspiring writers seeking advice and inspiration as well as readers interested in something new are all welcome so do come along for an evening of reading and discussion.
Call or drop in to book, tickets £3 including wine.
Creative Writing for Dummies with Maggie Hamand
Wednesday, 16 September 2009 at 7.00pm
Local author, publisher and regular customer Maggie Hamand will be here to talk about her other role as a teacher of creative writing in which she has written this new title in the for Dummies series.
Please join us for discussion and a glass of wine.
Tickets £3 including wine, advance booking advisable, call or drop in to book.
The Last Englishman by Roland Chambers
Tuesday, 6 October 2009 at 7.00pm
The Last Englishman explores the life of Arthur Ransome. Known to most as the children's author of the Swallows and Amazons series, there is an altogether different side to his life as a journalist and British or possibly double agent in Bolshevik Russia. We're looking forward to hearing more of this fascinating story when the author Roland Chambers joins us at the shop to read and discuss his book.
Roland studied film and literature in Poland and at New York University before returning to England in 1998. The Last Englishman is his first biography and won a Jerwood award from the Royal Society of Literature.
Tickets £3 including wine, advance booking advisable, call or drop in to book.
Freshly Picked - kitchen garden cooking in the city
Thursday, 18 June 2009 at 7.00pm
We're delighted to welcome local author Jojo Tulloh to celebrate the publication of her book Freshly Picked.
Those of us living in towns and cities might think that the pleasures of growing our own food, watching the seasons pass with the changing produce and getting our hands stuck in to the soil are beyond our reach. But a growing number of urban dwellers are realising that there are ways of connecting with the land, enjoying the satisfaction of watching something grow, even in cities. Jojo takes us to her inner-city allotment and guides us through a year of cooking, inspired by the food that has sprung from her surprisingly fertile patch of East London waste-ground.
Tickets £3 including wine, please call or drop in to book.
Talking the Broads: an evening with new writers
Tuesday, 7 July 2009 at 7.00pm
Following the success of our evening with four writers earlier this year, Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone will be back to introduce more new writers so please do join us for reading and discussion.
Colleen Becker is an American writer based in London. In addition to working on her novel The Long Way, she has just completed a screenplay and is writing a second. Tales of the Decongested, vol. 2 includes her story “B&I”, and she has recently read work at the Tate Modern.
Adam Marek’s short story collection, Instruction manual for swallowing, was published by Comma Press in 2007, and was described in The Guardian as a 'transgressive thrill to read' and The Independent as showing a 'genuine unsettling talent'. It was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Prize – the biggest prize in the world for a collection of short stories. His stories have also appeared in Prospect magazine and in anthologies including When it changed, Parenthesis and The new uncanny from Comma Press, two Bridport Prize collections and the British Council’s New Writing 15. He is working on his first novel.
For 5 years Richard Tyrone Jones has run ‘Utter!’, one of London’s top spoken word nights, and has performed at the O2 Wireless festival, Apples & Snakes, Hackney Empire and most of the UK’s major spoken word series. His first book ‘Germline’ was published in June and Forward Prize winner Daljit Nagra described him as a ‘wonderful poet and host’. He lives in Bow and will be running a 'MisGuided tour' of Hackney on Sat July 25th.
Melissa Bailey studied English Literature at Oxford University and went on to study law and become a media and entertainment lawyer. She is currently working on her first novel, which follows the exploits of an East End foot fetishist. She lives and works in London.
Tickets £3 including wine, call or drop in to book.
Last Shop Standing by Graham Jones
Wednesday, 5 August 2009 at 7.00pm
Graham Jones will be here to read and discuss his book, Last Shop Standing.
Record shops are becoming an endangered species, even larger stores are struggling, so Graham decided to undertake a pilgrimage around the country to visit those that are still flying the flag despite the overwhelming pressure from music downloads.
He has either worked in, or sold music to record shops for over 20 years so is perfectly placed to tease out stories and anecdotes and he promises a revealing evening about the murky side of the music industry.
Tickets £3 including wine, advance booking advisable.
Michael Horovitz - SOLD OUT
Friday, 5 June 2009 at 7.00pm
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Michael Horovitz is one of the last still living Beat Poets from the generation of Kerouac, Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. In 1965 he appeared with Ginsberg, Corso, Trocchi, Jandl et al at the ground-breaking International Poetry Incarnation at Albert Hall. In his last year at Oxford he founded – and still publishes – the seminal avant-garde concerted arts magazine New Departures. Soon after, this begat Live New Departures, Jazz Poetry SuperJams – and, since 1980, the Poetry Olympics festivals. Singles Evening!
Thursday, 12 March 2009 at 6.00pm
A book club without having to read the book.
By popular demand we are hosting our first single's evening. Come along for a glass of wine, a browse and a chat about books or anything else.
If it goes well, we could make it a regular feature so spread the word.
6pm to 8.30pm
Iain Sinclair - NOW STANDING ROOM ONLY, TICKETS ON DOOR, FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
Thursday, 19 March 2009 at 7.00pm
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We're looking forward to welcoming Iain back to read and discuss his eagerly-awaited book Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire.Writers' Evening
Thursday, 23 April 2009 at 7.00pm
We are very excited to be hosting an evening with four authors: Heidi James, Shaun Levin, Lee Rourke and Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone.
Heidi's novella The Mesmerist's Daughter (published by Apis Books) was launched in July 2007 (‘Ingenious’ – Dazed and Confused), her novel Carbon (published by Blatt) will be out in Spring 09 and published in Spanish by El Tercer Nombre. Her essays and short stories have appeared in various publications including Dazed and Confused, Next Level, Flux, Brand, The Independent, 3:AM London, New York, Paris, Dreams That Money Can Buy, Full Moon Empty Sports Bag, Pulp,net.
Shaun is the author of Seven Sweet Things (bluechrome) and A Year of Two Summers (Five Leaves). His most recent work, Isaac Rosenbeg's Journey to Arras: A Meditation, was published in 2008. His short stories appear in anthologies as diverse as Modern South African Short Stories, Desperate Remedies, Boyfriends from Hell, and Best American Erotica. He is the editor of Chroma: A Queer Literary Journal.
Lee is the author of Everyday [Social Disease Books] and the forthcoming novel The Canal [Melville House Publishing]. His criticism regularly appears in The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer, TLS and Bookforum. He is Co-Editor at 3AM Magazine.
Rebekah is a prize-winning short-story writer and the author of Home (Social Disease, 2008), a novel about a corrupt care home. She is co-founder of Tales of the DeCongested, a monthly short-story reading event held at Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, partner of the independent publishing company, Apis Books, and teaches creative writing at City University.
Please join us for reading and discussion, tickets £3 including wine. Booking advisable.
Tibor Fischer
Wednesday, 6 May 2009 at 7.00pm
We are delighted to be hosting the journalist and author of the Booker-shortlisted 'Under the Frog' who will be reading from his latest novel 'Good to be God'.
Tibor was born in Stockport of Hungarian parents and brought up in South London. As well as being shortlisted for the Booker prize his first novel 'Under the Frog' won the Betty Trask Award and he was nominated as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Subsequent works include 'The Thought Gang', 'The Collector Collector', 'Don't Read this Book if You're Stupid' and 'Voyage to the End of the Room'.
Tickets £3 including wine, booking advisable.
On Guerrilla Gardening - STANDING ROOM ONLY, TICKETS ON DOOR FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 7.00pm
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Richard Reynolds will be here to talk about his experiences as a guerrilla gardener, which began with planting flowers secretly at night outside his tower block in South London and the phenomenon has now spread around the world.Hocus Pocus - Be Baffled and Bewildered at The Broadway Bookshop!
Thursday, 11 December 2008 at 6.30pm
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We will be joined by internationally renowned author, magician and designer of effects for the West End Stage, Paul Kieve. Be enchanted and enthralled by magical presentations based on his recent book – Hocus Pocus. The story is set in Hackney and tells of a young magician whose collection of old magic posters come to life. He’s subsequently given the performance of a lifetime by the greatest illusionists of all time (such as Harry Houdini) who all genuinely appeared at The Hackney Empire around 100 years ago. Paul’s acclaimed presentation has recently been seen at the Cambridge, Cheltenham and Edinburgh literary festivals. Passport to Enclavia by Vitali Vitaliev
Wednesday, 19 November 2008 at 7.00pm
We are looking forward to meeting Vitali who will be reading from his new book, Passport to Enclavia.
Vitali, a Ukranian-born Russian Jew with Australian and British citizenships, set out on a personal quest to find out what really defines the continent of Europe, just as a uniform European identity - in the guise of the Euro - was being imposed from Brussels.
What does it mean to be European? The answer lies not in Brussels, but in Europe's forgotten enclaves - tiny fragments of one country cut off and completely surrounded by another.
Passport to Enclavia is a homage to Europe, in all its marvellous diversity. Part of the proceeds of the book go to The Foundation for Endangered Languages.
Tickets £3 including wine, please call or drop in to book.
Private View: Jenny Leach
Friday, 24 October 2008 at 6.30pm
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We shall be celebrating the opening of our new exhibition of paintings by Jenny Leach. Please come along for this the new show and have a glass of wine.Book launch: Canine Couture
Thursday, 16 October 2008 at 6.30pm
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Please join us for a glass of wine to celebrate the publication of designer Lilly Shahravesh's book Canine Couture.Borrowing Books in Hackney
Wednesday, 8 October 2008 at 7.00pm
Please join us for a glass of wine on Wednesday, 8th October, and listen to Margaret Willes talking about her book, Reading Matters: Five Centuries of Discovering Books. The book charts the history of our changing relationship with books, including their sale and marketing, collecting and borrowing.
For the evening at The Broadway Bookshop, Margaret will focus on libraries. A dull subject, you might suggest. But she will show how the development of the library system in Hackney included moments of high drama, as well as elements of comedy.
Margaret Willes was the publisher for the National Trust until 2005. She has always worked in the publishing industry, but since her retirement she has had the time not only to research the very wide range of topics covered in Reading Matters, but also to visit many remarkable survivals, including a cabinet of books belonging to an early 17th-century gentleman preserved in a church near Reading to the library of miners at Leadhills in Lanarkshire founded in 1741.
Tickets £3 including wine, call, email or drop in to book.
The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
Wednesday, 17 September 2008 at 7.00pm
Sarah Wise, author of The Italian Boy, will be joining us to read and discuss her latest book illuminating another fascinating story from East London's past.
The Old Nichol was a 'notorious fifteen-acre slum' in Shoreditch, on the site of which we now find the Boundary Estate centred around Arnold Circus. In the late nineteenth century this area was targeted for reform and Sarah 'explores the real lives behind the statistics....laying bear the social and political conditions that created and sustained this black hole...'.
Tickets £3 including wine, please call or drop in to book.
Summer Sale starts
Friday, 4 July 2008 at 10.00am
Some new books at half price plus many slightly damaged or out-of-print books much reduced. Lots of bargains.
Continues until Sunday 6th July.
Sunshine - One Man's Search for Happiness
Wednesday, 18 June 2008 at 6.30pm
Following the success of the beach party on 3rd May, Robert is returning to read and discuss his book Sunshine. So if you missed him the first time round, or would like to hear a bit more about the book, please join us for a glass of wine on a (hopefully) balmy summer's evening.
'This compulsive, utterly idiosyncratic, unmistakably British ... book is all feeling, radiating energy and nerves...' Antonia Quirke, The Sunday Times.
Duncan Hewitt reading and discussing Getting Rich First
Wednesday, 11 June 2008 at 6.30pm
The peasant revolutionary turned lifestyle guru, the former Shaolin monk working on a Shanghai building site, the once-conservative father running a gay hotline - and the teenagers who just want to dress up as their favourite Japanese cartoon characters. Welcome to the new China, a nation in motion, where whole streets are rebuilt in a week, car ownership is soaring, education goes private and rural workers migrate to the cities in search of a better life.
Former BBC correspondent Duncan Hewitt lives and works in China and has witnessed first hand the impact and speed of these vast social and economic upheavals. His timely book speaks with the voices of everyday people as they learn to adapt to one of the most rapid transformations in human history.
Born in 1966, Duncan Hewitt spent his first year in China from 1986-7, while studying Chinese at Edinburgh University. He went on to work as the BBC’s China correspondent as well as writing for the Guardian, Observer and The Far Eastern Economic Review. He currently writes for Newsweek and divides his time between England and Shanghai.
Tickets £3 including wine, please call or drop in to book.
Halfway to Venus by Sarah Anderson
Wednesday, 21 May 2008 at 6.45pm
"Sarah Anderson lost her left arm to cancer when she was ten. This is her unflinching account - a death sentence, an amputation, and then the long slow struggle against other people's attitudes, namely their own fear." Nicholas Shakespeare.
Sarah examines people's reactions, from the casual to the more highly charged; she looks at the effect, both erotic and otherwise, of having only one arm, describing both poignantly and entertainingly what she has learnt.
Reading this book, you'll learn that she's done more during her life than most of us with two arms, including starting The Travel Bookshop in Notting Hill in 1979, whose arrangement of guides and literature together is shamelessly replicated here in The Broadway Bookshop (Jane spent four years working for Sarah).
We shall be serving wine.
One Man and His Dig by Valentine Low
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 at 6.30pm
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Journalist Valentine Low will be here to read and discuss his book One Man and his Dig, about the trials and tribulations of allotment gardening.East London Printmakers exhibition evening view
Thursday, 1 May 2008 at 6.00pm
A second chance to view the East London Printmakers Box 2008 exhibition. Once you've cast your vote, join us for another glass of pastis and perhaps take away a print on the night.
We'll be open until 8pm and entry is free.
The Broadway Bookshop Bank Holiday Beach Bonanza
Saturday, 3 May 2008 at 10.00am
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Guaranteed Sunshine at London’s smallest urban beach.Take control of your finances - Juliane Otterbach launches her books Debt and Saving
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 at 6.30pm
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Join us for a glass of wine to celebrate the launch of Juliane Otterbach's two books 'Debt' and 'Saving'.Oliver Poole - The Red Zone
Thursday, 10 April 2008 at 6.30pm
Local author and journalist Oliver Poole will be joining us to read from his book The Red Zone, based on his experiences in Iraq while working for the Daily Telegraph.
Tickets £3 including wine, please call or drop in to book.
East London Printmakers exhibition launch
Thursday, 3 April 2008 at 6.00pm
Join us for a glass of pastis to celebrate the launch of our new exhibition of twenty six original, limited edition prints by East London Printmakers.
Martin Horton - Different River
Monday, 31 March 2008 at 6.00pm
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An exhibition of new paintings by Martin Horton.The Resurrection of the Body by Maggie Hamand
Wednesday, 12 March 2008 at 6.30pm
We are delighted to welcome local author Maggie Hamand who will be joining us to read from her new novel The Resurrection of the Body, a mystery exploring love, religion and madness.
Maggie is a journalist, non-fiction author and novelist. In 2000–01 she was Writer in Residence at Holloway Prison, London, and in 2004–07 a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at London University of the Arts.
Tickets £3 including a glass of wine.
Xiaolu Guo
Friday, 29 February 2008 at 6.30pm
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Xiaolu returns to read from her new novel 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth.James Meek
Thursday, 14 February 2008 at 6.30pm
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James will be joining us to read from his new novel We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, published on 7th February. 2nd birthday party and exhibition of new paintings by Martin Horton
Thursday, 29 November 2007 at 5.00pm
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Please join us to celebrate our 2nd birthday and the opening of an exhibition of new paintings by Martin Horton - Different River.Dark City Light City book launch
Thursday, 8 November 2007 at 6.00pm
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We are looking forward to hosting Michele Roberts and Carol Robertson for the launch of their book Dark City Light City, an exploration of London through words and images by writer and artist.Hari Kunzru & Lee Rourke for Anything But Hackneyed
Thursday, 25 October 2007 at 6.30pm
We're looking forward to meeting local author Hari Kunzru for the next Anything But Hackneyed. Hari's latest novel My Revolutions is one of our recommendations this month.
Lee Rourke is returning to The Broadway Bookshop to read from his new novel Everyday. Lee lives in Hackney where he is the founder and editor of Scarecrow and a co-editor at 3AM magazine.
We hope to see you here.
James Mackinnon: London Fields - An exhibition of recent paintings.
Friday, 19 October 2007 at 6.30pm
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Private view for the new art exhibition at the Broadway Bookshop running until Sunday 11th November.Ronan Bennett
Thursday, 4 October 2007 at 6.30pm
We are delighted to welcome Ronan Bennett back to The Broadway Bookshop. Ronan's previous novels include The Catastrophist and Havoc, in its Third Year and he is joining us to read from his new novel, Zugzwang.
As well as being talented novelist, Ronan is also a journalist and writes for film and television, he wrote the screenplay for The Hamburg Cells (a docu-drama about the 9/11 attacks).
He's been nominated for the Whitbread Novel Award and has won numerous other prizes, including The Belfast Arts Award for Literature and the Irish Post Literature Award.
Tom McCarthy for Anything But Hackneyed and Write To Ignite
Thursday, 27 September 2007 at 6.30pm
We're looking forward to meeting Tom McCarthy, author of Tintin and the Secret of Literature, who will be reading from his novel Remainder and his new book Men In Space.
Joining Tom are Matthew De Abaitua who will be reading from his debut novel and George Poles and Simon Littlefield, co-authors of As A Dodo.
This event is also part of Hackney's Write to Ignite Festival, please see www.writetoignite.co.uk
Iain Sinclair introduces Rachel Lichtenstein
Thursday, 13 September 2007 at 6.30pm
We are delighted to welcome back Iain Sinclair and look forward to meeting Rachel Lichtenstein who will be reading from her new book On Brick Lane.
This is a ticketed event, £5 entry includes a glass of wine. Please call or come in to book.
Geoff Gunby
Friday, 7 September 2007 at 6.00pm
Geoff is returning to The Broadway Bookshop for an exhibition of his new paintings. To celebrate we shall be holding an opening on Friday 7th September, 6pm to 8.30pm.
We hope to see you there.
Michael Horovitz
Thursday, 20 September 2007 at 6.30pm
Michael is joining us to read from A New Waste Land in which he 'adapts and extends the structure, music and apocalyptic collage of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land of 1922 to take a hard look at the state of planet earth
today'.
This is a ticketed event, £3 includes a glass of wine. Please call or come in to book.
Green is the New Black by Tamsin Blanchard
Thursday, 6 September 2007 at 6.30pm
We are excited to be hosting the launch of Tamsin's new book, which includes facts and tips to help navigate the minefield that is ethical fashion.
'Does our shopping addiction contribute to climate change? What's so special about organic cotton? Who are the real fashion victims behind the £3 jeans? With fashion secrets from celebrity friends, Green is the New Black is the chicest, greenest survival manual around.'
Niven Govinden for Anything But Hackneyed
Thursday, 12 July 2007 at 6.30pm
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We are looking forward to meeting Niven who will be reading from his second and latest novel Graffiti My Soul.Nick Rosen - How to Live Off-grid: Journeys Outside the System
Thursday, 28 June 2007 at 6.30pm
£3 entrance - redeemable on any book purchased. Please call to book in advance.
Haven't you ever wanted to break out of the rat race and find a place to be free? Whether for the weekend or for a lifetime, Nick Rosen explores off-grid living, combining irreverent travellogue with 'how-to' essentials. The talk covers his reasons for going off-grid, the political context of the off-grid movement, and why there needs to be changes in the law to allow more people to go off-grid.
Toby Litt for Anything But Hackneyed
Thursday, 24 May 2007 at 6.30pm
We're delighted that Toby Litt will be joining us to read from his new novel Hospital.
Toby studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury, winning the 1995 Curtis Brown Fellowship. In 2003 he was nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'.
Reading alongside Toby will be Lee Rourke and Heidi James. Lee lives in Hackney where he is the founder and editor of Scarecrow and a co-editor at 3AM magazine. Heidi has previously worked as a receptionist for a dominatrix, as an actress and artists' model and set up the independent publishing company, Social Disease.
Susan Elderkin for Anything But Hackneyed
Thursday, 29 March 2007 at 6.30pm
Susan's first novel Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains won the prestigious Betty Trask Award and her second novel The Voices was nominated for the Ondaatje award.
Both Orange Futures and Granta have recognised her as one of the most distinctive and talented British writers of our time. So, it's a real pleasure to have her at Anything But Hackneyed.
Alongside Susan will be other surprise guests reading the kind of genuinely exciting writing we're starting to get known for. If you'd like to submit work for consideration please send it to submissions@anythingbuthackneyed.com. Submissions should be no longer than 1,500 words and can be much shorter.
Ronan Bennett for Anything But Hackneyed
Thursday, 26 April 2007 at 6.30pm
Ronan Bennett, perhaps best known for his novels The Catastrophist and Havoc, in its Third Year, has agreed to read at our April event.
As well as being a very talented novelist, Ronan also writes for film and television, and is a talented journalist. Uncommonly for writers these days, he isn't scared of engaging with difficult political issues – he wrote the screenplay for The Hamburg Cells (a docu-drama about the 9/11 attacks).
He's been nominated for the Whitbread Novel Award and has won numerous other prizes, including The Belfast Arts Award for Literature and the Irish Post Literature Award.
David Peat
Wednesday, 18 April 2007 at 6.30pm
On a special visit to London from the Pari Centre for New Learning in Tuscany, the theoretical physicist will be talking about his latest book 'Pathways of Chance' and the many ideas it explores – the Blackfoot Sun Dance and his meetings with Native Americans, interactions with artists and scientists, Carl Jung and Synchronicity, quantum theory and the limits to what we can know, life in a medieval Italian village and the idea of Gentle Action.
Admission £3 redeemable against the cost of any book on the night. Please call for tickets.
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