Blackwell's Presents...

Blackwell's Oxford Event coordinator, Alex, talked to Ben Aaronovitch about his latest book in the River of London series, False Value. Follow us: Twitter: @blackwelloxford Instagram: @blackwelloxford YouTube: Blackwell's Oxford Website: www.blackwells.co.uk

Our Bookseller at Blackwell's Broad Street, Aleida, sat down with Lennie Goodings to discuss her book, A Bite of the Apple. "A Bite of the Apple is a celebration of writing, of publishing, and of reading." Follow us: Twitter: @blackwelloxford Instagram: @blackwelloxford YouTube: Blackwell's Oxford Website: www.blackwells.co.uk

Events coordinator for Blackwell's Oxford, Alex, sat down with Edward Parnell to discuss his book, Ghostland. 'Ghostland is Parnell’s moving exploration of what has haunted our writers and artists – and what is haunting him. It is a unique and elegiac meditation on grief, memory and longing, and of the redemptive power of stories and nature.' https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Ghostland-by-Edward-Parnell-author/9780008271992 Follow us: Twitter: @blackwelloxford Instagram: @blackwelloxford YouTube: Blackwell's Oxford Website: www.blackwells.co.uk

Blackwell's Fiction Bookseller Ray was delighted to sit down with James Attlee, author of Isolarion, to discuss the republishing of this classic book. A travel writing classic, with a new preface by the author and an afterword by Geoff Dyer. ‘A time may come in your life’, Isolarion begins, ‘when you feel the need to make a pilgrimage.’ But when it does, how is a parent with a full-time job to respond to the call? Follow us: Twitter: @blackwelloxford Instagram: @blackwelloxford YouTube: Blackwell's Oxford Website: www.blackwells.co.uk

Blackwell's were honoured to be joined by Chelsea Kwakye who was in conversation with Daisy J Hung on her hugely important book, Taking Up Space: The Black Girl's Manifesto for Change. As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking Up Space as a guide and a manifesto for change. "FOR BLACK GIRLS:Understand that your journey is unique. Use this book as a guide. Our wish for you is that you read this and feel empowered, comforted and validated in every emotion you experience, or decision that you make.FOR EVERYONE ELSE:We can only hope that reading this helps you to be a better friend, parent, sibling or teacher to black girls living through what we did. It's time we stepped away from seeing this as a problem that black people are charged with solving on their own.It's a collective effort. And everyone has a role to play." Featuring honest conversations with students past and pre

Blackwell's were delighted to host a special Hallowe'en event exploring black magic, with Thomas Waters and Lucie McKnight Hardy as they discussed their books 'Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times' and 'Water Shall Refuse Them'. Follow us on Twitter: @blackwelloxford Instagram: @blackwelloxford YouTube: Blackwell's Bookshops Website: www.blackwells.co.uk

Lyrical and boundary-breaking, Saltwater explores the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, the challenges of shifting class identity and the way that the strongest feelings of love can be the hardest to define. Beth, one of our fiction booksellers sat down with Jessica Andrews to talk gentrification, language and how we shape ourselves. Follow us on Twitter: @blackwelloxford Instagram: @blackwelloxford YouTube: Blackwell's Bookshops Website: www.blackwells.co.uk

We were delighted to be joined by Garth Nix and R. F. Kuang on Thursday 17 October to discuss Garth's first adult fantasy novel, Angel Mage. Garth is the author of the fantastic Old Kingdom series for young adult, including Sabriel, as well as many other novel for young readers. R. F. Kuang's The Poppy War won the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut last year, which has been followed by The Dragon Republic. Twitter: @blackwelloxford Instagram: @blackwelloxford YouTube: Blackwell's Bookshops Website: http://www.blackwell.co.uk

Join booksellers Beth, Cat,Chiara and Alex as they discuss the ghost stories of Blackwell's and recommend you some creepy reads! Twitter: @blackwelloxford Instagram: @blackwelloxford YouTube: Blackwell's Bookshops Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/blackwells-oxford-11264382560

Learn how to cook an array of literary feasts with Kate Young as she discusses her beautiful cookery book 'The Little Library Cookbook'. Containing over 100 delicious recipes taken from Kate's favourite works of fiction, 'The Little Library Cookbook' showcases delights such as Paddington Bear's marmalade, a Neopolitan pizza with Elena Ferrante and afternoon tea at Manderley. 'The Little Library Cookbook' was voted as on of the Guardian's Best Books on Food of 2017, Shortlisted for the Fortnum and Mason's Debut Food Book Award and Winner of World Gourmand Award for Food Writing. Kate Young is an award-winning food writer and cook. As a dedicated bookworm, Kate's reading inspires her in the kitchen. After mastering the treacle tart from Harry Potter, Kate started blogging about her creations and was named Blogger of the Year in 2017 by the Guild of Food Writers. Kate has written for the Guardian, Sainsbury's Magazine and The Pool. She is currently writing 'The Little Library Year' which is due to be published

Blackwell's Broad Street was thrilled to be joined by author of the best-selling Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter. Max was in conversation with fellow author, Ali Shaw, discussing his latest book, Lanny. There is a village outside London, no different from many others. Everyday lives conjure a tapestry of fabulism and domesticity. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to the people who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort who has woken from his slumber and is listening, and watching. He is watching Mad Pete the village artist. He is listening to ancient Peggy gossiping at her gate, to families recently moved here and to families dead for generations. Dead Papa Toothwort hears them all as he searches, intently, for his favourite. Looking for the boy. Lanny. ‘It’s hard to express how much I loved Lanny. Books this good don’t come along very often. It’s a novel like no ot

In February 2019, we were lucky enough to be joined by Kristen Roupenian, author of the phenomenon ‘Cat Person’, in-conversation about her debut book, You Know You Want This, with Man Booker shortlisted author, Daisy Johnson. Emerging from a seven-year relationship in her mid-thirties, Kristen Roupenian thought she’d be much better at dating – she was older, wiser and boasted a finely tuned bullshit detector. Instead, a memorably bad encounter planted the seed for the story ‘Cat Person’, which became a viral sensation after being published by the New Yorker in December 2017. Kristen Roupenian spent the early part of her twenties travelling the world in the Peace Corps, as well as working in a bookshop and as a nanny. She went on to study for a PhD in African literature at Harvard. When ‘Cat Person’ happened, Kristen was coming to the end of an MFA at the University of Michigan and putting the finishing touches to You Know You Want This, her first book. With a nod to classic horror, You Know You Want This ex

As part of Independent Bookshop Week, we want to share with you some of the stories of our booksellers from Blackwell's Broad Street. We are lucky enough to work with such wonderful people who are incredibly passionate about books. This episode features Zool, the Sales Development Manager. Sian Cain is the online editor for The Guardian Books and a former bookseller of Blackwell's Oxford.

As part of Independent Bookshop Week, we want to share with you some of the stories of our booksellers from Blackwell's Broad Street. We are lucky enough to work with such wonderful people who are incredibly passionate about books. This episode features Ulic, manager of the Norrington Room. Sian Cain is the online editor for The Guardian Books and a former bookseller of Blackwell's Oxford.

As part of Independent Bookshop Week, we want to share with you some of the stories of our booksellers from Blackwell's Broad Street. We are lucky enough to work with such wonderful people who are incredibly passionate about books. This episode features Dave, Blackwell's Oxford's Sales Manager. Sian Cain is the online editor for The Guardian Books and a former bookseller of Blackwell's Oxford. Blackell's Oxford Twitter: @blackwelloxford Books Are My Bag Twitter: @booksaremybag

As part of Independent Bookshop Week, we want to share with you some of the stories of our booksellers from Blackwell's Broad Street. We are lucky enough to work with such wonderful people who are incredibly passionate about books. This episode features Alex, who works in Events. Sian Cain is the online editor for The Guardian Books and a former bookseller of Blackwell's Oxford. Blackell's Oxford Twitter: @blackwelloxford Books Are My Bag Twitter: @booksaremybag

As part of Independent Bookshop Week, we want to share with you some of the stories of our booksellers from Blackwell's Broad Street. We are lucky enough to work with such wonderful people who are incredibly passionate about books. This episode features Zoe, who work works in the Norrington Room. Sian Cain is the online editor for The Guardian Books and a former bookseller of Blackwell's Oxford. Blackell's Oxford Twitter: @blackwelloxford Books Are My Bag Twitter: @booksaremybag

As part of Independent Bookshop Week, we want to share with you some of the stories of our booksellers from Blackwell's Broad Street. We are lucky enough to work with such wonderful people who are incredibly passionate about books. This episode features Dan, who works in the fiction department. Sian Cain is the online editor for The Guardian Books and a former bookseller of Blackwell's Oxford. Blackell's Oxford Twitter: @blackwelloxford Books Are My Bag Twitter: @booksaremybag

As part of Independent Bookshop Week, we want to share with you some of the stories of our booksellers from Blackwell's Broad Street. We are lucky enough to work with such wonderful people who are incredibly passionate about books. This episode features Becky, who works in our travel department. Sian Cain is the online editor for The Guardian Books and a former bookseller of Blackwell's Oxford. Blackell's Oxford Twitter: @blackwelloxford Books Are My Bag Twitter: @booksaremybag

Blackwell's were delighted to be joined by Carcanet poets on the 7th of February for a wonderful evening of poetry and discussion with three of Carcanet's most prominent poets, Beverley Bie Brahic, Alison Brackenbury and Nina Bogin. Beverley Bie Brahic is a poet, translator and occasional critic. Her collection White Sheets was a finalist for the 2012 Forward Prize; Hunting the Boar (2016) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and her translation, Guillaume Apollinaire, The Little Auto, won the 2013 Scott Moncrieff Prize. Other translations include Francis Ponge, Unfinished Ode to Mud, a 2009 Popescu Prize finalist, and books by Hélène Cixous, Yves Bonnefoy, Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva. Brahic was born in Saskatoon, Canada, grew up in Vancouver, and now lives in Paris and the San Francisco Bay Area. Alison Brackenbury was born in Lincolnshire in 1953 and studied at Oxford. She now lives in Gloucestershire, where she works, as a director and manual worker, in the family metal finishing business. H