Free public talk and dialogue. Accessing inner strength is now more important than ever. Join us to explore practical insights and tools to activate your innate resilience.

About the speaker:
Sister Manda is a gifted and experienced teacher of Raja Yoga meditation. She speaks with warmth, clarity and authenticity, and makes the spiritual journey feel accessible. She is based at the Global Retreat Centre, near Oxford.

Also featuring local community leaders sharing their experiences.

Free Event | No need to book | Free Parking | Disabled Access

As part of the 2024 Farsley Literature Festival we bring you an evening at the Old Woollen with Sunday Times Best Selling Author, Guy Shrubsole in conversation with Boff Whalley. They will be discussing Guy’s new book The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

As part of the 2024 Farsley Literature Festival, join us in the shop as cosy crime writer Jonathan Hall chairs an evening of discussion with Tom Hindle and Rachel North. The panel will explore the lure of a glamorous location for thriller writers.

Mycelial provides a reality check on assumptions the world makes of those involved in sex work. It asks audiences to step into the shoes of people who are the most disenfranchised from society, who face stigma and hate, to consider the intersectionality of sex workers who are also trans, seeking asylum, Black and other people of colour.

Supported by National Ugly Mugs and in association with Northern Stage.

As part of the 2024 Farsley Literature Festival we are proud to announce, an afternoon at the Old Woollen with award winning author Sir Ian Rankin as he introduces us to the brand new John Rebus thriller ‘Midnight and Blue’, which will be released in October.

They say there is nowhere more dangerous for a cop than prison. John Rebus is about to find out just how true that is.

Join us in the shop for something very different, with drinks and escape room challenges, as author L.D. Smithson talks to us about her gripping new thriller – The Escape Room.

In February 2024 Leona published her first stand-alone thriller, The Escape Room, under the name L.D. Smithson. Her second standalone, The Shame Game, is due in 2025. All Leona’s novels draw on her experience as a psychologist. 

Join us on a journey through artist Ellie Harrison's career, as she speaks about her art practice, The Grief Series project and the experiences that have led her to where she is today.

6:00pm: Doors open
6:30pm: Talk starts
7:30pm: Break
7:45pm: Q&A

Quantum Sauce marks Red Planet Day! It’s 60 years since the Mariner IV spacecraft began its journey to Mars. Join Quantum Sauce and three space scientists on a mission for merriment and musings!

It’s one for the literature lovers! Quantum Sauce kicks off the 3rd Annual Farsley Literature Festival, with three talks to get you thinking!

We’re hosting:

Caroline Cauchi - Fact vs. Fiction: The Novelist’s Ethical Dilemma

Lucyl Harrison and Catherine Wynne - Pandemic Pages: Reading Covid Fictions, Memoirs and Poetry

Rhiannon Lawrence-Francis - Who buys books? Libraries, literature and legacies

Science + Arts + Beer = Mind Expansion!