Sat 19 Sept
|Saatchi Gallery
BookBar Introduces at the Saatchi Gallery
BookBar is bringing the social side of reading to the Saatchi Gallery with a conversation with a collection of our favourite debut writers: Marcia Hutchinson, Jem Calder and Sufiyaan Salam.
Time & Location
19 Sept 2026, 15:45 – 16:45
Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, London SW3 4RY, UK
About the event
We love bringing books into the hands of readers at BookBar and now you can discover some of the most exciting publications by debut authors, curated and hosted by BookBar’s founder Chrissy Ryan.
This exciting line up includes some of our favourite debut writers: Jem Calder, author of I Want You To Be Happy; Marcia Hutchinson, author of the Women's Prize-shortlisted The Mercy Step; and Sufiyaan Salam, author of Wimmy Road Boyz.
About I Want You To Be Happy
Chuck and Joey meet in a bar. He's in his mid-thirties; she's twelve years younger. He's long abandoned his ambition of becoming a novelist and now works as a copywriter at a big ad agency. 'Lead copywriter,' he corrects himself. Joey lives paycheck to paycheck on her barista wages and privately dreams of making it as a poet. They go back to Chuck's luxury flat-a world away from Joey's cramped house-share,…