Before I Forget with Anne Pauly and Dina Leifer

We're delighted to be welcoming award-winning writer Anne Pauly and translator Dina Leifer to the bookshop to celebrate the publication of Before I Forget published by Peirene - one of our favourite indie publishers.

Join us for a reading, laid-back conversation, and a glass of wine in the bookshop, with time for audience questions and book signings.

About the book

‘A perfect strike: funny, emotional, political, and unflinchingly accurate.’ – Virginie Despentes, author of Vernon Subutex and King Kong Theory

When Anne’s father dies, she is left grieving a contradiction. Jean-Pierre was a man of many faces: the self-taught philosopher born into poverty; the Buddhist who marked favourite haikus with maple leaves; the old romantic who ends every evening kissing a pixelated portrait of his late wife; and the violent bully, whose alcoholism marks his family’s life in terrible ways. Sorting through his belongings and making funeral preparations, Anne tries…