Join us for an evening with Adam Farrer.
Doors open at 7:00pm and the event starts at 7:30pm
Free hot drinks will be available on arrival.
There will be an opportunity to buy books and get them signed afterwards.
£5 entry fee is redeemable against the price of the book. Should you wish to reserve a book please email us books@westwoodbooks.co.uk
About Adam:
Adam Farrer is a writer and editor based in Manchester. He has performed at literature events and festivals across the UK including Manchester Literature Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Ilkley Literature Festival. His writing has featured in numerous publications, including The Guardian, Lunate, Hinterland and Test Signal (Bloomsbury/Dead Ink, 2021), and his first book, Cold Fish Soup (Saraband, 2022), a memoir in essays about the Yorkshire coast, won the NorthBound Book Award at the 2021 Northern Writers’ Awards. He edits the creative non-fiction journal The Real Story and has lectured in memoir and life writing at the University of Lancaster.
About the book:
When it comes to the challenge of being a man, Adam Farrer always seems to find a way to fall short… Broken Biscuits vividly recounts Adam’s struggles to live up to masculine expectations, real or imagined. From the calamity of his first serious relationship to an obsession with Prince that sees everyone questioning his sexuality, and from the repercussions of his adult circumcision to his doubts about his ability to survive the apocalypse, this candid and personal collection of essays is astonishingly far-reaching and riotously funny. Holding up a mirror to Adam’s own body image, his relationship with his family, his sense of self-worth and the mortifying experience of arriving at a teenage party wearing strawberry-patterned short shorts, this book is about growing up and trying to define yourself as a man but somehow always missing the mark.