Lucy Mangan: Bookish

Sunday 1 June, 5:00pm, Landau Forte DE1 2LF

Lucy will be in conversation with Professor Katharine Cox, Head of the School of Humanities and Journalism at the University of Derby

Kindly sponsored by Boolers.

This event will be filmed and made available as a digital recording after the Festival. Available for purchase here.

A love letter to all those who come alive when they pull a new treasure off the shelf, stay up late reading just one more page and pack their suitcases with clothes wedged between books instead of the other way around. From exploring the stacks as a student, to finding her feet as a bookseller-turned-journalist, falling for a fellow bookworm in an independent bookshop, escaping the doldrums of new motherhood and finally building a (book) room of her own, Bookish is the story of a life spent falling in love with reading. 

Guardian journalist and Bookworm author Lucy Mangan chronicles her years of buying, borrowing and hoarding everything from well-worn literary classics to steamy bonkbusters, gripping thrillers, young adult novels and other not-so-guilty pleasures. 

Brimming with literary insights, wry observations and stellar recommendations, this book is an ode to the bookish places – from local libraries to bookstores big and small – and the stories that make us who we are.