Events

Look out for our upcoming events! Social book club, fantasy book club, walk & talk book club, writing courses and clubs, and quiet reading nights as well as loads of 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 - monthly; get in touch to sign up and get the book!

Each month we run a book club, bringing authors, writers, and translators along to join the discussion. To secure a place at an upcoming book club, and to get copies of the books to read ahead, please pop into the shop, message on Instagram, or email us at hello@collectedbooks.co.uk. 

Book club is taking a little summer break in August but back in September with author Freya Bromley and her novel A Real Piece of Work.

 

SEPTEMBER BOOK CLUB

FREE but please get in touch to sign up! Books available in-store now

Freya Bromley on A Real Piece of Work - Wednesday 23 September, 7.30pm

We're massively excited to be welcoming author Freya Bromley to the Collected Book Club to join us in discussing her first novel A Real Piece of Work - a sharply observed, by turns tender and funny, novel about family, sisterhood, and finding beauty in the everyday.

Nola McConkey has made it. Animal Oracle, the memoir she has written about her beloved late sister Darina, has become a hit. People read it, critics loved it, producers now want to make it into a movie. There’s only one problem: everyone in her family has an opinion about the book – and none of them are good.

Now, someone has made an anonymous complaint to her publisher about Animal Oracle. Nola is sure that only someone in her secretive, chaotic family could be to blame. As her parents and three remaining siblings prepare to spend the fifth anniversary of Darina’s death together on the isolated island of Lundy, Nola knows this is the perfect opportunity to convince her accuser to pull the complaint before it causes irreparable damage – but first, she must discover who made it.