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Thursday February 18th at 6.45pm

Allen Ashley reads from his extraordinary collection Once and Future Cities

Allen Ashley’s tales of Urban Fantasy are intensely surreal, savagely satirical, subtly subversive and despairingly funny. And we think that you should be at this night to enjoy a tale or two from one of of the masters of the modern dystopian tale.
Allen's latest collection of shorts is frickin incredible ( i particularly like Flat Top) and we're absolutely delighted that he'll be reading an abridged version of Beholders and answering questions, as well as signing copies of his book.
Allen is a huge supporter of Indie publishers and bookshops, and we really appreciate his visit to the Big Green Bookshop. I am personally very very excited about this and hope that you'll be there to listen and talk to One of the most distinctive voices in modern literature.
For more info about Allen, you should go here. http://www.allenashley.com/
and then you should go here.
http://www.biggreenbookshop.com/
This is a FREE event and wine and stuff wlil be served so please come along.

 Thursday February 25th at 7.00pm

Book Launch of Playground by Samuel Bonner

We're absolutely delighted to be hosting the book launch of Samuel Bonner's debut novel 'Playground' published by Empiricus Books. I have a sneaky suspicion that this could, if picked up by the right people, be very big.

'Jonah had been looking forward to going back to London since the moment he was forced to leave. After being away for so long, he wasn't expecting the sinister and brutal changes in his friends personalities and behaviour. It wasn't that long ago, they were up to wayward antics typical of boys their age. Gone were the times of hanging around the fried chicken shop and loitering in the park where they got drunk on cheap booze. Shootings, rape, stabbings, robbery and drug induced violence were now their games of choice.
What should have been the best week of the summer quickly turns into a nightmare for Jonah, as he is sickened by the depravity he witnesses. His friends prey on the weak, and before long Jonah is himself hunted down. Confused, betrayed and terrified, he scrambles across the once familiar streets as he desperately tries to survive and escape the viciousness of an unforgiving city.
This is a shockingly disturbing tale of peer pressure and the evil among a gang of inner-city youths'

Samuel will be there to sign copies of the bok and hopefully we'll persuade him to read a passage from the book.
We really hope that if you're able to make it along.

This is a FREE event and lots of refreshments will be served.