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Backstory

In Balham, Greater London

Address

71 Balham High Road, London, SW12 9AP

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Phone

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Upcoming events at Backstory

Backstory is a bookshop in Balham. Near Here currently lists 16 upcoming events, including 7:30pm - Claire Thomson, Dear Grace, 2.15pm - Jacqueline Wilson, Book Signing - Esme Pepper and 7.30pm - Jonn Elledge, 31 Inventions That Built Our World.

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7:30pm - Claire Thomson, Dear Grace

Description Please note event tickets are neither exchangeable nor refundable. Wednesday 29th July, 7:30pm (doors open 7pm) Backstory, 71 Balham High Rd, SW12 9AP Claire Thomson is a chef, food writer and constant source of family cooking inspiration to her . She also has a podcast of the same name where she chats and chops with people from other professions about what they cook for dinner. Dear Grace is a book that will really resonate with parents whose children are leaving home for university or moving out for the first time. About the book: “Get two copies, one for your child to cook from when they leave home, and one for you to have a weep with when they do” Phillipa Perry A mother’s recipes and her daughter’s first kitchen adventures away from home. Dear Grace is a warm and wise cookbook written by chef and award-winning food writer Claire Thomson for her daughter as she leaves home for university – one for parents to read, and their soon to be adult children to cook from. Claire began addressing Instagram posts to Grace, each pairing heartfelt advice and reminiscences with a recipe to cook and why it would fit the bill, hundreds of miles away from home. This struck a chord with parents everywhere experiencing similar emotional highs and lows as they sent their children off into adult life.

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7.30pm - Jonn Elledge, 31 Inventions That Built Our World

Description Please note event tickets are neither exchangeable nor refundable. Monday 7th September, 7.30pm Backstory, 71 Balham High Rd, SW12 9AP Bestselling author of A History of the World In 47 Borders Jonn Elledge turns his attention to inventions in his new book, 31 Inventions That Built Our World. He will be joining us to talk about how our lives would be very different if certain inventions were never, well, invented. About the book: For over 10,000 years, we humans have been busy altering our environment and embracing 'progress', evolving seamlessly from hunter gatherers to the modern urban sophisticates we see ourselves as today. But what are the ideas and inventions that enabled humanity to become, by the early 21st century, a majority urban species for the first time? How did the essential infrastructure of modern life - the innovations that we barely even notice, but without which our world would fall apart - actually come to be? With his characteristic wit and boundless curiosity, Jonn Elledge invites us to join him on a fascinating and often surprising tour of the ideas and technologies that made modernity possible. From elevators to electric lighting, parks to pedestrian crossings, he guides us through the history of civilisation itself. Tickets Available: Ticket only - £15 (This ticket does not include a copy of the book.

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7.30pm - Jonn Elledge, 31 Inventions That Built Our World

Description Please note event tickets are neither exchangeable nor refundable. Monday 7th September, 7.30pm Backstory, 71 Balham High Rd, SW12 9AP Bestselling author of A History of the World In 47 Borders Jonn Elledge turns his attention to inventions in his new book, 31 Inventions That Built Our World. He will be joining us to talk about how our lives would be very different if certain inventions were never, well, invented. About the book: For over 10,000 years, we humans have been busy altering our environment and embracing 'progress', evolving seamlessly from hunter gatherers to the modern urban sophisticates we see ourselves as today. But what are the ideas and inventions that enabled humanity to become, by the early 21st century, a majority urban species for the first time? How did the essential infrastructure of modern life - the innovations that we barely even notice, but without which our world would fall apart - actually come to be? With his characteristic wit and boundless curiosity, Jonn Elledge invites us to join him on a fascinating and often surprising tour of the ideas and technologies that made modernity possible. From elevators to electric lighting, parks to pedestrian crossings, he guides us through the history of civilisation itself. Tickets Available: Ticket only - £15 (This ticket does not include a copy of the book.

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7.30pm - Nicola Sturgeon, Frankly

Description Please note event tickets are neither exchangeable nor refundable. Monday 14th September, 7:30pm The Bedford, 77 Bedford Hill, Balham, SW12 9HD Scotland's first female first minister and former leader of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon, will be joining us to talk candidly about Frankly, her intimate memoir which is published in paperback in August. About the book: In this captivating memoir, Nicola Sturgeon takes readers from her working-class roots in Ayrshire to the forefront of Scottish politics as the country’s first female and longest-serving first minister. Sturgeon offers an insider’s view of key political moments, including the establishment of the Scottish Parliament, the SNP’s rise to power, the Scottish Independence Referendum, the complexities of Brexit and the unforeseen challenges of the Covid pandemic. With candour and insight, she shares personal achievements and regrets, discusses the challenges of being a woman in a high-stakes political arena and reveals the person behind the public figure. The result is a deeply personal and revealing memoir from one of Britain’s most significant political leaders of recent times. An instant Sunday Times bestseller in Hardback and a Book of the Year in the Times, Guardian and Sunday Times ‘A triumph.

Mon 14 Sept20:30Backstory
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7.30pm - Frank Gardner, Ballistic

Description Please note event tickets are neither exchangeable nor refundable. Wednesday 16th September, 7:30pm Backstory, 71 Balham High Rd, SW12 9AP BBC Security Correspondent and bestselling author Frank Gardner discusses his new novel Ballistic, an edge of your seat spy thriller set in the Arctic. About the book: In the dying light of an Arctic afternoon a monstrous black shape slips beneath the waters of Murmansk bay. Murmansk in the Arctic Circle is where Russia's fleet of nuclear-powered submarines is based - and the Novorossiya is one of their navy's most advanced - and dangerous - vessels. Acting on information received from a high-ranking mole deep inside Russia's FSB, Britain's security services are convinced that the submarine is about to deploy a terrifying, game-changing device. As Europe goes into a state of high alert, MI6 operative Luke Carlton is sent into the hot zone that is the Finnish-Russian border. His mission to secure the safe extraction of this valuable MI6 asset and the intel he has in his possession - because it seems the West could be staring Armageddon in the face. It's then that things start to go devastatingly wrong. Tickets Available: Ticket only - £15 (This ticket does not include a copy of the book. You can decide to buy a copy on the night, but this will be charged in addition, at the full price of the book.) Ticket & book (RRP £20)- £28 (To collect on the night.)

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7.30pm - Frank Gardner, Ballistic

Description Please note event tickets are neither exchangeable nor refundable. Wednesday 16th September, 7:30pm Backstory, 71 Balham High Rd, SW12 9AP BBC Security Correspondent and bestselling author Frank Gardner discusses his new novel Ballistic, an edge of your seat spy thriller set in the Arctic. About the book: In the dying light of an Arctic afternoon a monstrous black shape slips beneath the waters of Murmansk bay. Murmansk in the Arctic Circle is where Russia's fleet of nuclear-powered submarines is based - and the Novorossiya is one of their navy's most advanced - and dangerous - vessels. Acting on information received from a high-ranking mole deep inside Russia's FSB, Britain's security services are convinced that the submarine is about to deploy a terrifying, game-changing device. As Europe goes into a state of high alert, MI6 operative Luke Carlton is sent into the hot zone that is the Finnish-Russian border. His mission to secure the safe extraction of this valuable MI6 asset and the intel he has in his possession - because it seems the West could be staring Armageddon in the face. It's then that things start to go devastatingly wrong. Tickets Available: Ticket only - £15 (This ticket does not include a copy of the book. You can decide to buy a copy on the night, but this will be charged in addition, at the full price of the book.) Ticket & book (RRP £20)- £28 (To collect on the night.)

Wed 16 Sept20:30Backstory
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