
Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives with Lucy Mangan
Thu 20 Mar 2025
7:00pm at Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, 14-15 John St, Bath, BA1 2JL
All tickets include 15% off any books purchased on the night, a glass of wine or soft drink, author talk, Q&A and signing.
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Author, journalist and life-long book lover Lucy Mangan joins us at Mr B’s to talk about her new book, Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives.
Lucy’s book journey has seen her searching the stacks of student libraries, bookselling, finding love with a fellow bookworm, dealing with early motherhood, and building a book room of her own. Here she lays out her obsession in a charming personal story of a life filled with books.
Lucy is a journalist at the Guardian and her previous books include the novel Are We Having Fun Yet? and the non-fiction works Bookworm and Hopscotch & Handbags. She also featured as a guest bookseller at Mr B’s for Independent Bookshop Week in 2022!
About the book:
A love letter to all those who come alive when they pull a new treasure off the shelf, stay up late reading just one more page and pack their suitcases with clothes wedged between books instead of the other way around. From exploring the stacks as a student, to finding her feet as a bookseller-turned-journalist, falling for a fellow bookworm in an independent bookshop, escaping the doldrums of new motherhood and finally building a (book) room of her own, Bookish is the story of a life spent falling in love with reading. Bookworm author Lucy Mangan chronicles her years of buying, borrowing and hoarding everything from well-worn literary classics to steamy bonkbusters, gripping thrillers, young adult novels and other not-so-guilty pleasures.
Brimming with literary insights, wry observations and stellar recommendations, this book is an ode to the bookish places – from local libraries to bookstores big and small – and the stories that make us who we are.
‘A bookworm’s delight’ – Sara Collins
‘A gorgeous hug of a book – funny, warm and charming’ – Marian Keyes
‘Lucy Mangan on books is like butter on toast: perfect’ – Caitlin Moran