A quick-view guide to our upcoming bookish events and socials at Above the Bookshop
August
August | Above the Bookshop social calendar
Silent Book Club | Friday 2nd & 9th August
from 6pm, reading hour from 6:30pm (free entry)
Dice & Daal | Tuesday 20th August, 6pm-9pm
A board game night – with dinner! BYOBG or borrow from our library. Booking essential – especially if you’d like daal
The Not-Entirely-Bookish Quiz | Friday 23rd August, 7pm
How’s your general knowledge? Niche facts? Maybe some bookish trivia? Join us for the Not-Entirely-Bookish Quiz – we had so much fun running this for Wayward Book Festival that we’ve decided to bring it back!
Scribbles & Stitches | Friday 30th August
Casual crafting and chatting, bring a project and some goss
from 6pm (free entry)
September
September | Above the Bookshop social calendar
Silent Book Club | Friday 6th & 20th September
from 6pm, reading hour from 6:30pm (free entry)
Armchair Critics | Wednesday 11th September
6:30pm
Book recommending made competitive – will you be coming to play as a Critic or a Pitcher?
Dice & Daal | Friday 13th & Tuesday 24th September
A board game night – with dinner! BYOBG or borrow from our library. Booking essential – especially if you’d like daal
Second date added for autumn!
Scribbles & Stitches | Friday 27th September
Casual crafting and chatting, bring a project and some goss
from 6pm (free entry)
Thursday 19th September | One Bad Apple: in conversation with Jo Jakeman
An evening with local crime writer Jo Jakeman to celebrate the launch of her brand new book One Bad Apple! Jo will be in conversation talking about her latest novel, set in an imagined prestigious school in the Southwest.
Thursday 19th September, 6:30pm
Above the Bookshop | £8/£6
Thursday 26th September | Still Waters & Wild Waves with Angela Harding
Angela’s unique and distinct style has become instantly recognisable to nature lovers and book lovers alike. Featuring over 50 original illustrations of dramatic seascapes and reflective rivers, alongside photography of the stunning places that inspired the artwork, her beautiful new book captures the waters that move us
Thursday 26th September, 7pm
The Poly | £8 + Poly fund
October
Wednesday 2nd October | Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum: Conversations with other animals
Join writer Luke Thompson for an evening exploring the fascinating and strange world of human-animal conversation. Spanning the ancient and modern, the scientific and the strange, Thompson’s journey takes him from the stories of King Solomon and medieval dragon-slayers to extra-terrestrial aliens and a poltergeist mongoose, via Harvard laboratories, floatation tanks and pet psychics
Wednesday 2nd October, 6:30pm
Above the Bookshop | £8/£6
Tuesday 8th October | A Suspicion of Spies with Tim Spicer
Join us for an evening with Lieutenant Colonel Tim Spicer OBE to talk about A Suspicion of Spies, the compelling first biography of Wilfred ‘Biffy’ Dunderdale – a ruthless and effective spymaster whose career spanned the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and beyond.
Tuesday 8th October, 7pm
The Poly | £8 + Poly fund