Events
Typewronger Books runs a FREE events program, so you can turn up to any of these you like! Should you wish to set up an event with us please click here to find out how that might work!
Camelopard - io.221 -
Sunday 3/12/23 @7pm
This poetry collection is a delicate tapestry of emotions, thoughts and introspection that invites readers to navigate the intricate corridors of the human experience. It explores the depths, the collapses, the liminal spaces and the sense of loneliness, gravity, and hope.
The collection’s exploration of themes, ranging from the relationship between technology and identity to the vulnerabilities of existence, showcases a language that mirrors the complexities of the everyday praxis. At the same time, it invites readers to venture into realms of emotion, memory, everyday encounters, and life’s nuances through contemplative testaments.
Anne Pia - Monday 4/12/23 @7pm
Join us as Anne Pia will be reading some poems and extracts from Keeping Away the Spider and her new book, Magnaccioni My Food My Italy on the theme of identity, self-making and freedoms.
Launch: Kitchen Love by Naomi Head - Wednesday 6/12/23 @7pm
Edinburgh-based poet and writer Naomi Head invites you to join her at Typewronger Books on Wednesday, December 6, for an evening of buttery, loving food poems at the launch of her poetry booklet, Kitchen Love. Naomi’s intimate, domestic poems will take you on a journey from Edinburgh to Beijing and back as she explores the intricacies of love, loss and finding joy amid the dark and difficult moments of life. With poetry and spoken word from local poets and writers Lauren Galligan, Mike Yuill, and Jade Stein, and music from Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter, Laura McPherson, this is sure to be a cosy night you don’t want to miss!
C D Boyland - Mephisopholes - Monday 11/12/23 @7:30pm
C D Boyland is a poet, visual poet and editor who lives in Cumbernauld, near Glasgow. His pamphlets are User Stories (2020); Vessel (2022); SMC_ (also 2022) and Ptchdk_ (2023). Other work has been published in magazines and anthologies such as: 3AM Magazine, Beir Bua, Gutter, The Interpreter’s House, The North and New Writing Scotland. He also co-edits The Glasgow Review of Books. His first full collection, Mephistopheles, is published by Blue Diode Press in late November 2023.
Scotland’s best kept secret, ahem, nicky [nick-e] melville has been described positively as an ‘avant-radge’ and pejoratively as ‘a poet.’ His magnum-opus The Imperative Commands came out with Dostoyevsky Wannabe in 2022 and Decade of Cu ts, his selected poems, was published in 2021 with Blue Diode Press. He is working on the third book in his ABBODIES trilogy, in which pop legends ABBA team up with problematic fave James Bond to make sense of the horror of Brexit and geopolitical coincidence. He makes music as Fuck This, a project which could be described as Ivor Cutler on [nick-]e. melville is a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
Rebecca Green works with overlaps and fusions of live performance, writing, painting, object making and participation. She maintains a diverse practice, which is intimate and universal, noted for its use of a mixture of improvised surreal intentions, wilfully alluring insistent humour and a collision of empathic bewilderment amid a searing focus illuminating the natures of individual human interactions and relationships.
TypeCast! - 3 Winters by Tena Štivičić - Friday 15/12/23 @6:30pm
We are delighted to announce the next TypeCast!, our play reading group at Typewronger.
All you need is a copy of the play, which you may source yourself or purchase from the shop. We aim to do plays written by living authors to help support their continuing work.
Please email info@typewronger.com ahead of time to secure a spot and order a copy of the play if you are interested in attending, as these events tend to be popular, and we sometimes run out of playscripts.
Take a seat on the welcoming stage of this little bookshop as we read aloud 3 Winters by Tena Štivičić. We'll randomly assign parts on the night, and then get reading!
A portrait of an eclectic family, held together by the courage to survive. In an ivy-clad house in Zagreb, Croatia, the Kos family argue and fall in and out of love as world after world is erected and then torn down around them. From the remnants of monarchy, through Communism, then democracy, war, and eventual acceptance into a wider Europe, four generations of Kos women - each one more independent than the last - have to adapt to survive.
The one constant is the house: built by aristocrats, partitioned, nationalised, it stands witness to the passing generations. But when the family assemble for Lucija's wedding, Alisa learns that her nouveau-riche brother-in-law has bought the family home for himself and the other tenants have to move out. For the bride this is progress, for her sister it's a shady act of greed.
For their principled parents, finally, it's one battle too many.
Open Mic Reboot XIII - Sunday 17/12/23 @7pm
Edinburgh's anarchic open mic night where there's no limit on what can be performed, only how much time performers get! We run for 90 minutes, and divide that time by the number of performers who sign up to get our set times. There's a bell 30 seconds before the end of each set, and a gong at the end which performers CANNOT go past! Sign up is 7-7.30 - comedy, music, poetry, short stories, film scripts, magic acts - we've had all sorts over the years, so just rock on down !
Bone Rites by Natalie Bayley - Monday 8/1/24 @7pm
I collected the first bone when I was twelve. This fact was not mentioned in court… Such a tiny little bone, more like a tooth. I only kept it to keep him safe.
Kathryn Darkling, imprisoned in Holloway, is facing death by hanging for her vengeance killing. Haunted by a spirit, she still hopes to perform the ancient black magic that will free her soul, or her struggle to punish the mighty will have been in vain. Will the love of her life come to her aid? Or can she find a way to escape her fate?
Winner of The Virginia Prize for Fiction, Bone Rites is a dark, literary tale of love, loss and one woman’s obsessive fight for justice and redemption within a ruthless world. Natalie Bayley is the author of “Bone Rites”, “Lolita’s Daughter”, “The Secret Life of Grandmothers”, “The Witch Who Saved Paris” and “The Lady Lyttle Murder Mystery” series. Her dark thriller “Bone Rites” was selected for the 2019 Blue Pencil long list, went on to be shortlisted for the 2021 Blue Pencil First Novel Award and was long listed for the 2021 Caledonia Prize before becoming the Winner of the Virginia Prize for Fiction 2022. Natalie has an opinion column that is published monthly in the Sydney magazine, The Beast. She lives in New South Wales.
Leslie Hills - 10 Scotland Street - Monday 15/1/24 @7pm
Scotland Street Press publishes 10 Scotland Street, an opinionated history of one Edinburgh house over two centuries. Written by award-winning film producer Leslie Hills, with a foreword by Val McDermid.
10 Scotland Street. The story of an Edinburgh home, its inhabitants and its widespread connections over two centuries. A family builds its fortunes through hard work, canny decisions and links across the globe – to the Caribbean, Irkutsk, Calcutta, Sydney… Here are booksellers, silk merchants, sailors, preachers, politicians, cholera and coincidence. 10 Scotland Street has been Leslie Hills’ home for almost fifty years. Thirty years ago, when she paid off the mortgage, she was handed a large bundle of vellum deeds. The first owner to hold them, two hundred years ago, was David Kedie Whytt, wine and spirit merchant, Napoleonic naval agent, and bookseller. This is where her research and our story begin. Surrounded by the ghosts that have climbed her steps, turned the keys in her cupboard doors, paused to watch the sunset from her bedroom window and sat round her kitchen table, talking, planning, imagining projects into being… Leslie presents us with a narrative that is inescapably personal, interwoven with and enriched by the author’s own reflections, memories and imaginings.
TypeCast! - A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare - Friday 19/1/24 @6pm
We are delighted to announce the next TypeCast!, our play reading group at Typewronger.
All you need is a copy of the play, which you may source yourself or purchase from the shop. We mainly read plays written by living authors to help support their continuing work, but we can't resist returning to the Bard now and again!
Please email info@typewronger.com ahead of time to secure a spot and order a copy of the play if you are interested in attending, as these events tend to be popular, and we sometimes run out of playscripts.
Take a seat on the welcoming stage of this little bookshop as we read aloud A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare. We'll randomly assign parts on the night, and then get reading!
A jealous king, convinced that his wife has been unfaithful and is having another man's baby, imprisons her and puts her on trial. The child is abandoned to die, but when she is found and raised by a shepherd, it seems redemption may be possible. A bravura blend of tragedy, comedy and romance, Shakespeare's emotionally potent late play explores artifice and nature, mortality and renewal, and the destructive and consoling effects of time.
