Events
A full audience seated among the shelves at Tills Bookshop on a winter evening, lit by globe lamps, with a ‘Book Shops Not Bombs’ sign on the wall behind

Talks, Bookclubs & Workshops

Literary events in the heart of Edinburgh's South Side.

What’s on

  • The patriarchy passes through the body: Elena Ferrante in conversation with feminist writers

    Presented by In Other Words

    For a third summer in a row, a series of four Friday seminars on Elena Ferrante's standalone novels — Troubling Love, The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter, and The Lying Life of Adults — read alongside feminist writing. Meeting 7, 14, 21, 28 August at Tills Bookshop by the Meadows, 19:00. Open to all levels of familiarity; read Ferrante in Italian, in Ann Goldstein's English translation, or any other language.

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  • READERS 3.2: The Bookless Bookclub

    Presented by AGITATE

    AGITATE bring READERS to the Bookless Bookclub — "a friendly and accessible reading group exploring photography & visual culture".

    Short texts are read together on the day: fiction, poetry, theory, song lyrics, writing on visual art. There is no prior reading to be done before the meet-up, and no background in the subject is assumed. Free to attend and open to anyone.

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Previously at Tills

  • “To translate a book is to live with it, and within it”: A conversation with Mima Simić on translating Ivana Sajko's work In Other Words

  • Diamond Life: a conversation with Anna Maconochie Tills Bookshop

  • The Villain's Dance: a conversation with Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Roland Glasser In Other Words

  • A Bookless Bookclub Special: Cristina Rivera Garza Tills Bookshop

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