The launch of the latest book by Richard Smith (Chair of Leeds Combined Arts)
PARADIGM WARS: The conflict between three different Views of Reality and the Belief Systems deriving from them.
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Join us as we welcome back long-term friend of the bookshop Caroline Bond, writing as Rachel North. Privilege has a price but we’ll be asking ‘But who will pay it?’ as we discuss her brand new thriller described as’ creepy, compulsive and a stonking page-turner’.
About the Book
Privilege has a price. But who will pay it?
On the eve of her seventieth birthday, Geri gathers her brother’s spoilt adult children together on the family’s private island and tells them that she’s ready to name her successor as CEO of the lucrative global empire founded by their grandfather.
Join Truman Books for an afternoon at The Old Woollen with M.W Craven as he launches the latest and hotly anticipated instalment in his Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw series. Mike will be discussing his new book ‘The Final Vow’ which features characteristic dark humour and nail-biting suspense amongst a twist laden investigation. There’ll also be a Q & A session and book signing.
About the Book
Join us for an in-conversation with Gemma Styles. To talk about mental health and Gemma’s debut book ‘Why Am I Like This’.
Gemma Styles is a published author, award-winning podcaster, eyewear brand founder and mental health advocate with more than 14 million followers across her platforms including over 10 million on Instagram alone.
Reading doesn’t have to be a lonely hobby – Chapel FM Arts Centre is here to prove it!
Readathon is an overnight reading event. Come for all or part of this Midsummer's Night and help read an entire book out loud, or just listen.
Watch the sunrise through the stained glass in Chapel FM's beautiful radio theatre, followed by a Readathon Big Breakfast.
SI Leeds Literary Prize is the biennial award for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women writers.
A national award with proud Yorkshire roots, the Prize has supported the careers of many successful writers, including Bradford's Saima Mir, Kit de Waal, Mahsuda Snaith, Amita Murray, Season Butler and Stella Oni.
An exclusive one-off event showcasing the legendary White Rabbit Books, purveyors of some of the best books about music and pop culture in recent memory.
Join us for a special panel event with White Rabbit supremo Lee Brackstone, writer, poet, cultural critic and memoirist Adelle Stripe and the one and only David Keenan, author of the cult classic This Is Memorial Device and several other works of genre-bending fiction and non-fiction.
This is our showpiece event for Leeds LitFest 2025 and is not one to be missed.
Join the Northern Fiction Alliance and Hyde Park Book Club at the Summer Solstice Book Fair! Drop in between 11am and 3pm to browse the latest books from the North's best indie publishers.
They'll be selling everything from poetry to short stories, sci-fi to literary fiction, so pop along to find your new favourite book.
From 3.45pm onwards, settle in for some author readings, followed by networking drinks with the authors and publishers.
But: Life Isn't Like That, Is It? is the new book by Boff Whalley, musician, author, and a founding member of the anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba and commoners choir.
These stories are about real lives and real people - stuttering, wayward, disjointed, funny, ridiculous and unplanned.
Boff will be at the beautiful Mill Hill Chapel to talk about, and sing, the stories that make up the book.
Lucy Vine is a writer, editor and the bestselling author of novels Hot Mess, What Fresh Hell and Are We Nearly There Yet?
Laura Wood is an academic and a writer. She is the winner of the Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for New Children's Writing and the author of the Poppy Pym series.
They’ll be talking romance with Rebecca Ryan, who will be moderating our event.