Non-Fiction Book Group: Seeing Like a State, how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed
Monday, 24th February, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£0.00
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review “A magisterial [...]
Michael Eaton, an illustrated talk on the film Chinatown
Wednesday, 26th February, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£3.00 - £13.00
Directed in 1974 by Roman Polanski from a script by Robert Towne, Chinatown is a brilliant reworking of film noir set in a drought-stricken Los [...]
Shoulder to Shoulder, with Jake Hall
Tuesday, 4th March, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£3.00 - £10.99
Solidarity is everywhere, if you look closely enough Shoulder to Shoulder is a love letter to the pioneers of solidarity and coalition. Offering a new global [...]
Louise Doughty plus support
Wednesday, 12th March, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£0.00 - £4.50
Louise Doughty is the author of ten novels, most recently A Bird in Winter, published by Faber & Faber UK last year. Her previous books include [...]
Mother Animal, with Helen Jukes
Tuesday, 18th March, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£4.00 - £16.99
When Helen Jukes fell pregnant, she does what anyone else would do, searched for information to help make sense of the changes underway inside her. [...]
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Adventures in poetry: Andrew Duncan and Rod Mengham
Wednesday, 30th April, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
£0.00 - £4.50
The second in a series of four Adventures in Poetry events during 2025, with four Nottingham-based poets reading with a specially invited guest of their [...]
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, [...]