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The Books of the Year Prescription For most of us, 2020 hasn't brought much in the way of joy. But it has brought some exceptional books. Our Shelf Medicate Prescriptions bring you the best books out there, and these are some of our favourites from this year. Choose between a small bundle of three or four books or a large bundle of six or eight book to have delivered to your door and then sit back, relax and enjoy your books. *Titles pictured are sample titles only. Small Bundle 3-4 Books £45 Add to Basket Large Bundle 6-8 Books £90 Add to Basket See All Shelf Medicate Prescriptions Head back to our Christmas shop How does it work? Choose your prescription Choose between a small or large bundle Pay via the PayPal link on our website Our literary expert will put together a unique selection of books based on the prescription you have chosen and the size. If you'd like to make any specific requests, please email orders@bookbaruk.com

bookbar summer series IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: WE HAVE DECIDED TO POSTPONE THE FIRST TWO EVENTS OF OUR SUMMER SERIES DUE TO THE RISE IN COVID CASES IN LONDON. We will announce new dates in due course. Launching our live events series! Join BookBar for our very first series of in person events: the BookBar Summer Series. We can't wait to welcome a brilliant collection of talented authors to BookBar for the first time since we opened. Buy your book and ticket to attend the events in person, choose to watch via a live stream, or buy a pass to enjoy the full series in person or virtually. Scroll down for the full line up. SUMMER OF LOVE WITH NATASHA LUNN Join us for a conversation with Natasha Lunn to celebrate all forms of love and discuss Natasha's new book Conversations On Love. After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn about their experiences, as well as drawing on her own, asking: How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it? In Conversations on Love she began to find the answers: Philippa Perry on falling in love slowly, Dolly Alderton on vulnerability, Stephen Grosz on accepting change, Candice Carty-Williams on friendship, Lisa Taddeo on the loneliness of loss, Diana Evans on parenthood, Emily Nagoski on the science of sex, Alain de Botton on the psychology of being alone, Esther Perel on unrealistic expectations, Roxane Gay on redefining romance and many more... Natasha Lunn is a journalist Features Director at Red magazine and the founder of Conversations On Love, an email newsletter investigating love one interview at a time. She lives in London. In person tickets include a copy of the book (RRP: £14.99), a glass of wine and a ticket to attend the event in person with Natasha and get your book signed and dedicated by the author. Virtual tickets include a copy of the book and a ticket to watch a live stream of the event. Tuesday 24th August, 7pm Buy my ticket Buy my Series Ticket SUMMER OF obsession WITH Megan nolan Tuesday 21st September, 7pm Join us for a conversation with Megan Nolan to discuss her debut novel Acts of Desperation. Bitingly honest and darkly funny Acts of Desperation is a stunning debut novel about a toxic relationship and secret female desire, from an emerging star of Irish literature. It's been selected as a Stylist Book of the Year, and is certainly one of BookBar's too. Megan Nolan lives in London and was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland. Her essays, fiction and reviews have been published in The New York Times, The White Review, The Sunday Times, The Village Voice, The Guardian and in the literary anthology, Winter Papers. She writes a fortnightly column for the New Statesman. Acts of Desperation is her first novel. Choose between an in person ticket without the book, an in person ticket includes a copy of the book (RRP: £14.99), a glass of wine and a ticket to attend the event in person with Megan and the opportunity to get your book signed and dedicated by the author. Virtual tickets include a copy of the book and a ticket to watch a live stream of the event. Buy my ticket Buy my Series Ticket SUMMER OF lust WITH francesca reece and sarvAt hasin Chaired by Sarah shaffi Wednesday 1st September, 7pm Join us for a discussion with two novelists: Sarvat Hasin and Francesca Reece, chaired by Sarah Shaffi. The Giant Dark Aida is the defining rock star of her age; her every move observed, examined and owned by a devoted, cultish fanbase.When she disappears without a trace into a complicated love affair they are determined to find her, uncover her truths and own her once more. Aida and Ehsan reconnect after a decade apart, hoping to recapture the innocent, lost love of their youth. Before long, their connection is strained by secrets and jealousies and the past begins to blur with their present as they follow in the footsteps of mythic lovers before them.The Giant Dark is an award-winning debut novel about love and fame. Inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, it explores the consuming and devastating effects of using a lover as a muse. Voyeur Leah, a young woman who has found herself 'ambitioned' out of London, is now aimlessly adrift in Paris. Tired of odd jobs in cafes and teaching English to unresponsive social media influencers, her heart skips a beat when she spots an advert for a writer seeking an assistant.Michael was once the bright young star of the London literary scene, now a washed-up author with writer's block. He doesn't place much hope in the advert, but after meeting Leah is filled with an inspiration he hasn't felt in years. When Michael offers Leah the opportunity to join him and his family in their rambling but glorious property in the south of France for the summer, she finally feels her luck is turning.But as she begins to transcribe the diaries from his debauched life in 1960s Soho, something begins to nag at Leah's sense of fulfilment; that there might be more to Michael than meets the eye. Sarvat Hasin is a writer. She grew up in Pakistan and now lives in London and works at the Almeida Theatre. She studied politics and international relations at Royal Holloway and has a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. Her first novel, This Wide Night, was published by Penguin India and longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her second book, You Can’t Go Home Again, was published in 2018 and featured in Vogue India‘s and the Hindu‘s end of year lists. She won the Moth Writer’s Retreat Bursary in 2018 and the Mo Siewcharran Prize in 2019. Her essays and poetry have appeared in publications such as Outsiders, the Mays Anthology, English PEN and Harper’s Bazaar. Francesca Reece grew up in Wales and having spent most of her twenties in Paris, now lives in London. She was the 2019 recipient of the Desperate Literature Prize for her short story ‘So Long Sarajevo/They Miss You So Badly’. Sarah Shaffi is a journalist, editor and interviewer, writing for Stylist, Phoenix, Penguin.co.uk, The Bookseller, and The New Arab. She has notably interviewed Booker Prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo, poet Nikita Gill, and authors Jojo Moyes, Candice Carty-Williams and Liane Moriarty, among others, regularly interviewing authors at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Southbank Centre and Asia House Literature Festival. Among various radio appearances, she has judged the Jhalak Prize for Best Book by a Writer of Colour and The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Choose between an in person ticket without the book, an in person ticket including one or both of the books (RRP: £16.99), a glass of wine and a ticket to attend the event in person and the opportunity to get your book signed and dedicated by the author. Virtual tickets include a copy of one or both of the books and a ticket to watch a live stream of the event. Buy my ticket Buy my Series Ticket

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Mon, 09 Sept | BookBar BookBar Presents... An Evening with Chris Whitaker The author of BookBar Book of the Month All The Colours of the Dark will be discussing his latest bestselling novel. Buy Tickets Time & Location 09 Sept 2024, 19:00 – 21:00 BookBar, 166 Blackstock Rd, London N5 1HA, UK About the event The whole BookBar team fell for All The Colours of the Dark this Summer and we have loved introducing Patch, Saint and the whole cast to you. Now, we're delighted to welcome the author of this astonishing book, Chris Whitaker, to BookBar. Join us to hear Chris Whitaker talk about All The Colours of the Dark on Monday 9th September at 7pm. About the book Late one summer, the town of Monta Clare is shattered by the abduction of teenager Joseph 'Patch' Macauley. Nobody more so than Saint Brown, who will risk everything to find her best friend. But when she does: it will break her heart. Patch lies alone in a pitch-black room - until he feels a hand in his. Her name is Grace and, though they cannot see each other, she lights their world with her words. But when he escapes: there is no sign she ever even existed. Left with only her voice and her name, he paints her from broken memories - and charts an epic search to find her. As years turn to decades, and hope becomes obsession, Saint will shadow his journey - on a darker path to hunt down the man who took them - and set free the only boy she ever loved. Even if finding the truth means losing each other forever... Chris Whitaker is the author of Tall Oaks , All the Wicked Girls and We Begin at the End . All three books were published to widespread critical acclaim, with Tall Oaks going on to win the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger Award. An instant New York Times bestseller and the #1 Indie Next Pick, We Begin at the End was the 2021 winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award, the Ned Kelly Best International Crime Award, and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. It was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award 2021 and the Goodreads Choice Mystery and Thriller 2021, and was also a Waterstones Thriller of the Month, a Barnes & Noble Book Club Pick and a Good Morning America Buzz Pick. All The Colours of the Dark was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. Chris lives in Hertfordshire. We are unable to offer refunds or exchanges on event tickets. All tickets come with a copy of All The Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (RRP £20). We are unable to offer exchanges on the book or to offer tickets without a copy of the book. Show More Tickets Ticket type Book with Ticket More info Your ticket includes a copy of All The Colours of the Dark (RRP £20) Price From £30.00 to £33.50 Collect Book £30.00 +£0.75 service fee +£0.75 service fee Quantity 0 Post Book £33.50 +£0.84 service fee +£0.84 service fee Quantity 0 Total £0.00 Checkout Share this event

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