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Join artist Maryam Hashemi for the finale of The All Good Bookshop's first artist residency and her show INNERSCAPES.

Line up:

ROSIE WILBY

Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian, author, speaker and the creator of global hit podcast and book The Breakup Monologues. She has appeared many times on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Woman’s Hour, Loose Ends, Saturday Live and Four Thought, on TV programmes including Good Morning Britain and at major festivals including Latitude and Glastonbury.

MATT ROUSE

With his engaging comic style and captivating stage presence, Matt Rouse is a new name making big moves in stand up.

Already winner of the respected Hastings Fringe New Act Competition and nominated for the BBC New Comedy Awards, the rising star has become known for his fresh viewpoint and cleverly packaged strong material. 

In 2023, Matt performed stand-up on the BAFTA-winning The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan (C4).

SALLY FIRTH

She is the winner of the first Stand Up Nights Competition in 2019 and a semi-finalist in the 2022 Sketch Off competition.

“Sally is a real hoot, switching from naive and unsure to more rude.. has the delivery spot on.” (Views from the Gods) “Beautifully written jokes.” (Maureen Younger, MY Comedy), “Looking wonderfully out of place … adorable and hilarious.. fantastic.” (Codie Louise Austin, North West End).  

Patrick Brusnahan

 Patrick Brusnahan is a Brazil-born jester rising fast through the club circuit in the UK.   Nominee in the BBC’s prestigious Comedy Award, Patrick is definitely one to watch… 

Join artist Emma Pugmire for a celebration of her new show in our gallery.

Following the successes here of The Epic of Gilgamesh, Beowulf and The Norse Edda, for our next epic storytelling project we're thrilled to present three nights of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, as told by some of our favourite tellers and a live soundtrack. 

A True Tale of Oppression, Resistance and Love:
As war rages in Ukraine and a genocide goes unchecked in Palestine, Adeeb Shaheen offers a unique perspective, and a stark warning: Unless we hold those in power to account, everything and everyone we love is in danger. Narrating the life and struggles of author Adeeb Shaheen, from Palestine, to Jordan, to imprisonment, to Ukraine, It is War! narrates a story of displacement, repression, violence, and resistance.  

Adeeb Shaheen was born in Palestine in the late fifties of the last century. In 1967 he witnessed the six-day war, and the occupation of his hometown Nablus. Because of this, he was forced to live through forced deportation and displacement all his life. When he returned to Palestine in 1988 he joined his people’s fight for freedom during the first
Intifada (uprising) and was abducted, alongside thousands of other Palestinians, by the Israeli occupation army. He was jailed for four years.

In 2003 he left Palestine for Ukraine with his family to try to build a new life without wars, until Russian aggression on Ukraine forced him out of this home. Here in the UK, he joins the people’s movement against genocide and injustice in Palestine, Ukraine, and other places, for dismantling the global system of oppression, for freedom and justice in the world. 

The first ever reading of a new play about the original Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster - Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff.

In the last weeks of Lugosi's life, he was recovering from drug addiction in relative poverty, before he claimed he was visited one last time by his old co-star, Karloff.  This meeting didn't happen - Lugosi either dreamt it, fantasised it or lied.

In this play, witness the final meeting of two old monsters... that never happened.

Performed by Chris Brosnahan and Peter Neill. Written and directed by Chris Brosnahan.

Join author Gurnaik Johal for the launch in paperback of his debut novel.

AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST 2025

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2025

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE INDEPENDENT, TELEGRAPH, NERVE AND GUARDIAN

'An ambitious, stylishly delivered novel ... Reminiscent of Salman Rushdie' OBSERVER

'Johal has written a major novel, and at his very first attempt' TELEGRAPH, 5-STAR REVIEW

'Saraswati is a major achievement, and Johal a huge talent. One of the biggest novels of the year' Martin MacInnes, Booker-longlisted author of In Ascension

Centuries ago, the myths say, the holy river Saraswati flowed through what is now Northern India.

But when Satnam arrives in his ancestral village for his grandmother's funeral, he is astonished to find water in the long-dry well behind her house. The discovery sets in motion a contentious scheme to unearth the lost river and build a gleaming new city on its banks, and Satnam - adrift from his job, girlfriend and flat back in London - soon finds himself swept up in this ferment of Hindu nationalist pride. As the river alters Satnam's course, so it reveals buried ties to six distant relatives scattered across the globe - from an ambitious writer with her eye on legacy to a Kenyan archaeologist to a Bollywood stunt double - who are brought together in a rapidly changing India.

Brimming with love, lush, violence and loss, Gurnaik Johal's magisterial debut deftly animates the passions that bind us to our histories, our lands and each other.