Collection: Events
Look out for our upcoming events - opportunities to hear writers talk about their work, buy signed copies, and meet fellow readers. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find details of ticketed events we have coming up!
BOOK CLUB & SOCIAL CLUB - monthly; get in touch to book your space
Each month we run a book club, bringing authors, writers, and translators along to join the discussion. We also have a monthly social club - a place for you to come, alone or with friends, and chat about some of our (and your!) favourite books and drink some wine (or beer or coffee or softs or tea!) and create a wonderful social reading community.
To secure a place at our next book club or social club, and to get copies of next month's reads, please pop into the shop, message on Instagram, or email us at hello@collectedbooks.co.uk
Hanna Nordenhök is an award-winning novelist, poet and essayist. Caesaria (2020) won Swedish Radio’s Literary Prize and was shortlisted for Vi’s Literature Prize. Nordenhök also works as a translator from Spanish and has been praised for her translations of Fernanda Melchor, Andrea Abreu and Alia Trabucco Zerán.
Saskia Vogel is a writer and translator of over two-dozen Swedish language books. Her novel Permission was published in five languages. She is a recipient of the Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature, the Bernard Shaw Prize, two English PEN Translates Awards, and was a PEN America Translation Prize finalist. She was Princeton’s Fall 2022 Translator in Residence.
We had a fun AND fascinating time in September, reading and then chatting about There are Rivers in the Sky by the incredible Elif Shafak and are now eagerly looking forward to October and The Future by Naomi Alderman - the Women's Prize winning author of The Power. This book is a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going. Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls, described this one as "a little Atwood, a little Gibson, all Alderman, it's brilliant and I loved it!" What further encouragement could you need?!? PLUS we'll be offering another exclusive book buying deal on the night - more details nearer the time...
Reading the book is strongly encouraged before you attend so you can get the maximum juicy discussion - there won't be any holding back to avoid spoilers!
Email to hello@collectedbooks.co.uk or message on Instagram to get your name on the list and bag a copy of the book!
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Michael Crawley - To the Limit | Wednesday 25 September, 6.30pm
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Joanna Scutts - Firebrands | Thursday 26 September, 7pm
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Rosie Hewlett - Medea, with Lizzy Tiffin | Wednesday 9 October, 6.30pm
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Helen Charman - Mother State: a Political History of Motherhood | Monday 21 October, 6.30pm
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C.J. Cooke - The Book of Witching | Wednesday 30 October, 6.30pm
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