Upcoming Events at David's Bookshop

A new monthly night of live performance at David’s.

Are you interested in performing? If so drop an email to submissions@davids-music.co.uk
All performers are welcome, not just musicians, we want poets, magicians, comedians etc - anyone that has a talent they want to showcase.

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We'll be open from 6pm until 10pm. Come down for good music, great drinks and a comfortable, cosy atmosphere.

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Join us for an event with Bee Wilson, celebrating the paperback release of The Heart-Shaped Tin.

This strikingly original account from award-winning food writer Bee Wilson charts how everyday objects take on deeply personal meanings in all our lives. Thoughtful, tender and beautifully written, The Heart-Shaped Tin is a moving examination of love, loss, broken cups and the legacy of things we all leave behind.

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Join us all day for card swapping and Pokemon themed activities!

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The chance to come along and read, alone or with friends, without the pressure of having to finish an assigned book, just bring along whatever you’re currently reading. Between 7pm and 7:30pm will be for food/mingling/getting settled in, then 7:30pm to 8:30pm will be for reading. Of course, if you’d like to read silently for the whole time then please do! On the night, there will be drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), cakes and snacks available from our cafe. If you like to read with a silky cup of coffee beside you, a glass of wine, or totally solo then please join us. For ages 7+.

Non-ticketed and free, just turn up.

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Join us for your very first chance to play with the cards from a brand-new set, where you can crack open some packs, build a deck, and try out all the exciting new cards and mechanics the set has to offer.

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Janice Hallett will be coming to David's for The Silent Appeal, the hugely anticipated sequel to the smash-hit bestseller, The Appeal.

Janice Hallett is a British journalist, screenwriter, and author of mystery novels. Her debut, The Appeal, is the UK's second bestselling fiction debut of 2021 and won for her the 2022 CWA New Blood Dagger.

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Join us for an event with Will Tullett for Sniff, a remarkable account of the weird and wonderful history of smell.

Across vast periods of time and around the globe, smell has been central to human life. From the incense burned in medieval religious rituals to the use of modern sniffer dogs, smells have been central to our sense of identity, our ability to build communities, and, perhaps less positively, to mark those deemed unwelcome within them. Our sense of smell brings us the pleasure of good food, wine, and perfume, but it also warns us of dangerous fire, gas, and rot.

What did the past smell like? Why does our own world smell the way it does?

Moving through key locations, from libraries to forests, churches to hospitals, Will Tullett explores the peculiar history of smell. We smell witchcraft and murder, fin de siècle Parisian theatres, and cinemas in 1960s New York. What emerges is not just a history of smells, but biographies of the many noses that have sniffed them.

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We are extremely excited to be hosting an event with James Fox for the paperback publication of Craftland: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades. For generations, what we made with our hands shaped who we were. The skills and knowledge passed down to us built our communities and defined our regions.

And if you know where to look, they still do. In Craftland, James Fox seeks out Britain’s last great craftspeople – those who are keeping our vanishing trades and traditions alive. Through them, we witness not only the living past but a deeper, more connected way of living today: one that is not yet lost and might still shape our future.

This soul-stirring journey shows that Britain is still a craft land, if only we have eyes to see it.

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Launch Event & Reading

Radical Jung explores how Carl Jung’s insights can guide us through the crises of digital era capitalism. The increasingly popular pursuits of psychotherapy and other wellness practices can result in a retreat from political activism. Yet without engaging with the growing horrors of modernity, from livestreamed genocide to ecology destroying data centres, there is little hope that our minds, society and the natural world will be able to heal. By critically engaging with the work of Carl Jung, Radical Jung explores how we can engage in a journey of introspection that not only avoids a retreat into individualism but can inform and develop our political agency. 

This book critiques the appropriation of Jung by right wing and conservative thinkers like Jordan Peterson while emphasizing the need for creative solutions rooted in Gnostic introspection. Through our dreams, and psychedelic and sober visions, we can engage with the unconscious. In doing so, we cultivate compassion and political agency in a chaotic world that is becoming increasingly overwhelming. By integrating Jungian processes and archetypes with contemporary issues, the book offers a path towards collective healing and a reimagined relationship with radical politics, nature, and ourselves.

Rob Faure Walker is a writer and theorist. He also works as an ecotherapist in North Wiltshire, where he lives with his family between the great stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge.

Gareth Farmer from Revol Press will also be present to discuss this new author-run and oriented publisher dedicated to putting out solid left wing theory. Revol's goal is to revive countercultural dreaming alongside incisive materialism, emphasizing quality over ‘edgy’ content and hot takes, putting out considered yet incisive reflections in a timely manner.

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Join us for an event with Amy Jeffs, here for the publication of Arthur.

From Sunday Times bestseller Amy Jeffs', Arthur: A New Life mines the deep, elusive seams of a story we think we all know: the legend of King Arthur.

But here he is anew: a larger-than-life warlord, a hero raised by fairies, a leader of the wild hunt, a monster-slayer, lying wounded under the ash cloud, longing to rise again. Tracing an epic story from Merlin's conception and the building of the Round Table to the abduction of Guinevere and King Arthur's ambitious quest for Empire, this Arthur is as real as any other, brought back to life from the earliest sources. Drawing out the dark and beautiful stories from the original medieval and early modern texts, Amy guides the reader from citadels through forests, into volcanoes, caves and riverbanks and beyond, even as far as Hell and the Otherworld.

Going further than merely the stories, she provides incisive commentary about each tale, emphasising the legends' crafted nature and their symbiotic relationship with the political cultures of contemporary medieval Europe. Thirty original linocut illustrations map the inky Arthurian myth-scape, darkened by time, familiar as a dream.

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Jonny is back at David's for another night filled with the best beers! Here celebrating the publication of his new book One More Round: Exploring the Best of British Pubs. Tickets include beer samplers and snacks.

Jonny Garrett is a multi-award-winning author, journalist, filmmaker and podcaster. He’s best known as the cofounder of the Craft Beer Channel, a Youtube channel with over 175,000 subscribers. He has written four books, including The Meaning of Beer and A Year in Beer, and hosted talks all over the world, including one at the World Economic Forum. He was British Beer Writer of the Year in 2019 and 2022 and now chairs the British Guild of Beer Writers.

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Author event & book signing

George Orwell: Life and Legacy is an intellectual biography which offers an authentic account of Orwell's life and work from his birth in the high noon of British imperialism in 1903, to his death on the eve of the Cold War in 1950—a life played out against a background of two world wars, the rise of communism, and the war-time pre-eminence of the United States. Yet no matter how alert he was to the world order, and no matter how guarded he was in his personal life, Orwell never shied away from the question of who he was, and the contradictions that entailed. His two great modern masterpieces Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) arrived to define the age he lived in.

Interest in him has never abated since; no writer is more quoted or misquoted. Orwell is in danger of being lost to soundbites. Colls reveals the author once again.

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Join us from 11:30pm to celebrate the release of ACOTAR 6. Free ACOTAR themed cocktails and luxury hot drinks with every order. Pre-order your copy now to be added to the guestlist.

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Sarah Clegg joins us once again at David's for her new book Perilous Enchantment.

In Perilous Enchantment, Sarah Clegg tracks the fascinating history of fairies, from the pre-Christian creatures of classical myths to the stories of fairy royalty told in the medieval French courts; from the early modern period in which fairies became bound up with the witch trials to the 16th century when they were imagined as tiny for the first time, the 17th century when they gained their wings and the late Victorian era, which made them sweet, pretty things with pointy ears, right through to their contemporary manifestation in both the sanitised cuteness of girlhood and in the darker realm of fantasy and romantasy.

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