On Wednesday 31 May we’re absolutely delighted to be joined by Emma Forrest, celebrating the paperback launch of her memoir Busy Being Free, a book we read last year and which totally blew us away. It’s …
Event: Busy Being Free with Emma Forrest

Celebrating the people and pages where real magic is made.
On Wednesday 31 May we’re absolutely delighted to be joined by Emma Forrest, celebrating the paperback launch of her memoir Busy Being Free, a book we read last year and which totally blew us away. It’s …
Friday 12 May An evening at Real Magic Books with Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller ‘Art is a way of staying in love with the world. It is also a form of magic’ TICKETS A …
Wednesday 26 April – 7pm An event in collaboration with Optometrist (and our neighbour) Ivan R Cammack ‘It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes’ New Statesman‘Fascinating… an exuberant history of spectacles and those …
Our book for April is Lee Cole’s brilliant debut novel Groundskeeping. Set in Kentucky, it is at its heart a coming-of-age love story between Owen and Alma, but also examines the boundaries between life and …