Join us for Storytime! We will be reading Troll by Frances Stickley and Stefano Martinuz. 

Troll is a deaf inclusive story and we will have Ann, a BSL interpreter to help us share the story with everybody. 

Troll is a lovely story that can be enjoyed by anyone but is aimed at children aged 3-7. 

All children must be accompanied by a responsible care giver.

For this event we will be taking to dry land and hosting in West Dock Creative Studios, the building next to our floating bookshop. It is fully accessible.

Celebrate Hallowe’en with the magical minds behind some of your favourite spooky books! 

In a big celebration to mark the end of the Summer Reading Challenge 2024 'Marvellous Makers!', join Adam Murphy, Bernard K Mensah, Jenny McLachlan, Jack Meggitt-Phillips, and more for spine-tingling stories, creepy draw-a-longs, and eerie activities in the mysterious corners of Leeds Central Library. Please read your booking confirmation to find out how to join each author for a more interactive "Ghastly Masterclass".

Do you know your Fool card from your Two of Wands? Or are you aware of tarot out there in the queerosphere and want to explore how you could use it in your writing?

This workshop, designed both for tarot novices and practised readers, will explore different strategies for adapting tarot to creative writing. Please bring something to write with and something to write on - no tarot cards or prior experience needed.

Hermit crab essays are typically short memoir narratives presented in borrowed forms - recipes, for example, or letters to the editor.

In this workshop, participants will explore examples of the hermit crab form, work together to generate ideas for hermit crab essays, and then have time to develop and (optional!) share a piece of their own. Aimed at all - from experienced writers interested in playing with a new form or shaking a creative block, to first-timers, and everyone in between.

Join Hold Fast Bookshop as we celebrate the release of a new book of short stories by writer S J Bradley -  'Maps of Imaginary Towns'. 

Welcome to the Under the Sun Book Launch & Performance! Join Seki Lynch at The Attic for an unforgettable evening filled with jazz music and poetry.

Meet the author and enjoy a live performance of stage-adapted poems accompanied by Ozzy Moysey, Hugh Vincent, and Mick Bardon of the Ancient Infinity Orchestra.

Why do we travel? How can we do it better? And how can it be part of a fulfilling life? Journalist, broadcaster, and author, Ash Bhardwaj explores these questions and more during an evening of storytelling at The Leeds Library. Join Ash as he shares insights from travels at home and abroad, and offers his advice on making every journey more mindful and satisfying. Guaranteed to provoke self-reflection and wanderlust.

Bestselling author of eleven acclaimed novels, Tracy Chevalier is expert at setting her stories in other times and places, thereby transporting the reader on fictional journeys through her carefully researched and skilful writing. 

We welcome her to Leeds to introduce her latest story The Glassmaker, to discuss her craft and the importance of reading for pleasure with Rebecca Fletcher on behalf of The Queen’s Reading Room, a reading charity and podcast.

Join Leeds author Chris Nickson for a discussion of his new novel Them Without Pain. The latest of Chris’ historical, Leeds based crime novels, Them Without Pain is inspired by the story of Arthur Mangey, a goldsmith who made the Leeds Mace in 1696 and was hanged for treason two years later. The evidence was flimsy, his accuser of dubious reputation… delve into the world of this lesser-known Leeds tale as Chris talks about the inspiration for his new novel, his writing process and of using Leeds as his creative backdrop in turning history into fiction.