Mud Sharks

The Society Club welcomes DAVE BARBAROSSA as he reads from his debut novel MUD SHARKS

Harry Ferdinand is a north London teenager – in trouble at school and at home.  He is battered, bruised and lost until he meets the love of his life:  the drums.  Plunged into the world of Punk Rock, Harry finds purpose, adventure and heartbreak in this powerful story of a boy growing-up in 1970s London.

From the former drummer of Bow Wow Wow and Adam & the Ants, Dave Barbarossa proves himself to be a very exciting writer.   As Q Magazine raved in their recent 4-star review: ‘the real heart of the novel is Harry trying to impress his uninterested and estranged father, punk’s lost boy screaming to fit in over the music iconoclastic and methamphetamine road.’

Join us on Tuesday, February 19th, as we welcome Dave Barbarossa

The Society Club

12 Ingestre Place

Soho W1F0JF

6:30-9:00

£5 on the door, free for members

Books will be available for signing and purchase on the night

Simon Van Booy

 

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“If F. Scott Fitzgerald and Marguerite Duras had had a son, he would be Simon Van Booy“*

Wednesday, February 6th
6:30pm
£5 on the door

Thrilled to welcome back award-winning writer Simon Van Booy (author of Love Begins in Winter and Everything Beautiful Began After) has he reads from new, unpublished material.

“Van Booy’s writing rings with the proverbial pithiness of Oscar Wilde, the elegance of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the clarity of Graham Greene and the wit of Evelyn Waugh, conjuring a strong voice full of poetic, timeless grace of which much of the contemporary literary scene is starved.”  -San Francisco Examiner

Simon Van Booy was born in Great Britain and grew up in rural Wales and now lives in Brooklyn, NY.    He is the author of The Secret Lives of People in Love, Love Begins in Winter (winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award) and the novel, Everything Beautiful Began After. His essays have appeared in numerous places, inclduing The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, and ELLE Men, (China), where he has a monthly column. He has also written for the stage and the BBC.

*andre dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog

Copies of Simon’s work will be available on the night for purchase and signing.

Picador New Voices

Join us as we welcome authors Emma Straub, Emma Chapman and Sarah Butler as we celebrate Picador New Voices!

Wednesday, January 23^rd from 7pm – 9pm

Three dazzlingly new writers will read from their debut novels just out from Picador.

Emma Straub’s debut novel Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures is “at once iconic and specific, [a] beautifully observed first novel explores the fraught trajectory of what has become a staple of the American dream: the hunger for stardom and fame. Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures affords an intimate, epic view of how that dream ricochets through one American life” applauded Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad.     

How to Be a Good Wife, the debut from Emma Chapman, has been described as ‘claustrophobic, startling and hauntingly beautiful…will stay with you long after you wish it would let you go’ raved Liza Klaussmann author of one of our favourite books Tigers in Red Weather

And Sarah Butler’s work Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love has been called ‘heartbreaking and hopeful, [a] tender debut novel’ by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, author of The Language of Flowers

Come join us for a glass of wine or a classic cocktail and some memorable readings from three of the brightest new voices from Picador.

Books will be available for purchase and signing on the night

Wednesday, January 23^rd

7pm – 9pm

The Society Club

12 Ingestre Place   W1F0JF