EVENT: Four of the most interesting poets working today – Vahni Capildeo, Drew Milne, Luke Roberts and Eley Williams – will be at the Bookshop on Tuesday 22 August to launch issue 10 of the Cambridge Literary Review, in which their work appears. Book tickets here. Read on for an excerpt ...

EVENT: David Hayden will be at the shop on Thursday 7 September to discuss his debut collection Darker With the Lights On, with Joanna Walsh and Chris Power. Book tickets now.

The top lip bursts along the line of Mr Portney’s incisors. His head shakes forward in an unexpected way so ...

EVENT: Dana Spiotta will be at the shop to discuss her work with critic Alex Clark on Thursday 17 August. Book tickets here.

Your books often take place in the recent past - from sometime in the 1970s up to the 90s. What is it about that era that attracts you? You manage to evoke that ...