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Boater: a life on England's Waterways, with Jo Bell

Wednesday, 6th August, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£4.50 - £16.00
Ideally, of course, this event should be on a canal, or on a boat moored at the Long Row marina, but ... For over twenty [...]

Non-Fiction Book Group reads 'Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?' by Claire Dederer

Thursday, 7th August, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£0.00
Our book group is open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we ask is that you read the [...]

Fiction Book Group reads Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Wednesday, 27th August, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£0.00
Our book group is open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we ask is that you read the [...]

Darren Simpson book launch, Thirst

Thursday, 11th September, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£0.00
Darren Simpson and Five Leaves Bookshop have pleasure in inviting you to the book launch of Thirst. Thirst is the story of the cursed River Yeelde. [...]
13 Sep

Mr Lawrence Returns to Nottingham

This event is part of the 2025 DH Lawrence Festival Book the date! Full details to follow In association with the Haggs Farm Preservation Society [...]
16 Sep

Poetry with Matthew Paul, Kathy Pimlott and Peter Sansom

Tuesday, 16th September, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£3.00 - £5.00
Matthew Paul lives in Rotherham. His first collection The Evening Entertainment was published by Eyewear in 2017 and his second, The Last Corinthians, will be published by Crooked Spire [...]
22 Sep

Jenn Ashworth, in conversation with Jon McGregor about care, grief and walking

Monday, 22nd September, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£4.50 - £20.00
'Ashworth's journey takes the reader from coast to coast in search of freedom' Jessica Andrew Jenn Ashworth emerged from lockdown with a compulsive need to [...]

By popular demand, another Jake Thackray evening, with Paul Thompson

Tuesday, 23rd September, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£5.00
 Mixing colourful readings from Jake’s unsung writing with talking about his life and performing some of his songs. Hilarious, irreverent, poignant, fanciful, quirky, poetic, imaginative, [...]

Fiction Book Group reads Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq

Monday, 29th September, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£0.00
Our book group is open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we ask is that you read the [...]

Every Monument Will Fall with Dan Hicks

Wednesday, 19th November, 2025    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£4.50 - £25.00
Refusing to choose between pulling down every statue or living in a past that we can never change, Every Monument makes the case for allowing monuments [...]
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