PUTTING PHILOSOPHY ON THE TELLY with Andy West When: Sat, Feb 21 from 11am to 12pm Where: Blackwells Bookshop Go online to reserve a spot today! Andy West, author of 'The Life Inside' takes part - Philosophy in the Bookshop - series to discuss the TV adaptation of his memoir SOON TO BE A […]
Join us for an evening with Sarah Wynn-Williams at Blackwell's Oxford Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams's Careless People was one of the non-fiction sensations of 2025. A hugely praised - and award winning - bestselling account of Sarah's time as Global Policy Director at Facebook, Meta secured a ruling against Sarah on publication day preventing her […]
Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author Jill Dawson tells the true story of Pamela 'Pixie' Colman Smith. Pixie It's the turn of the twentieth century and Pamela 'Pixie' Colman Smith is a young woman of stark contradictions: plucky yet naïve, artistically gifted despite lacking classical training, fascinated by the esoteric but sceptical of the world around […]
Nazism has always faced resistance. This book paints a vivid picture of resistance to hatred and extremism across the generations. Resisting Nazism Nazism has always faced resistance: from the German artists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try and expose the Holocaust in the 1940s, or the people […]
Anywhere But Here is a powerful exposé of Britain’s broken asylum system and how it fails us all. Anywhere But Here Each year tens of thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Channel in small boats hoping to find safety in Britain. Yet the very system designed to protect them has all but […]
Sara Wheeler introduces her captivating new biography of the legendary writer Jan Morris, published on the centenary of Morris's birth. Jan Morris : A Life She was the twentieth century. Who wouldn't want to write her biography? When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was first to get news of the ascent back to London, […]
Into being is an essential guide to writing radical and empowering memoir. Lily will be in conversation with author Richard Beard. Into Being The acclaimed author of Sins of My Father shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir. Into being is an essential guide to writing radical and empowering memoir. Drawing […]
Amanda Golden, Editor of this new edition of Sylvia Plath's poems will discuss the book with Poet Erica McAlpine. The Poems of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath's first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This new volume draws on decades of research and almost doubles the content of that previous edition. The book is in two parts. It […]
Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. Nightshade Mother In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing […]
