Tue 16 Jun
|BookBar Chelsea
BookBar Presents... An Evening with Jem Calder and Ana Kinsella
Join us for an evening with Jem Calder and Ana Kinsella as they chat about their two brilliant and buzzy debut novels!
Time & Location
16 Jun 2026, 19:15 – 20:15
BookBar Chelsea, 11 Chelsea Manor St, London SW3 3TW, UK
About the event
We're so excited to host Jem Calder and Ana Kinsella in conversation on their new books: I Want You To Be Happy and Frida Slattery As Herself. These two brilliantly crafted novels about millennial life and love and striving for an artistic life in a big city like London feel fresh in their approach. We can't wait to get these two writers in a conversation that's sure to cover love, connection and ambition.
Join us on Tuesday 16th June 2026 at BookBar Chelsea. The bar will open at 6:45pm with the conversation starting at 7:15pm.
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…
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