News & Events from Big Green Bookshop

Hello, 

We have a load of stuff to tell you about this week, so I won't dilly dally.

1. Tickets for this Friday's comedy night are selling quickly. It's a Benefit Show to raise money for the Tottenham Fund, so if you want to come along it would be wise to get in touch with the shop to reserve tickets.

 2. We are introducing a secondhand section in the bookshop. We will happily accept any donations that you have but will also consider buying books too. We will initially be concentrating on fiction (crime, science fiction etc all fit into this bracket) and children’s books to compliment our present stock profile. We prefer paperbacks, but will happily accept any books you'd like to give us!
Please get in touch with us if you have any questions.

 3. On Thursday 18th (this Thursday) there will be a thing called a BOOKSWAP. 
Here's the info. 

18th August, 7:30pm at the Duke of Edinburgh, corner of Coburg Rd and Mayes Rd, N22 (closest tube: Wood Green), Book Swap Haringey. Bring a book you have read and want to swap, have a drink and a chat with other people who like reading!

 I've been to one of these things before and they are great fun. You also come away with a book that you haven't read before, in exchange for one that you no longer want, so it's ace.
This isn't a Big Green Bookshop thing, but we like the idea of them and would very much encourage you to go along.

4. We are making a list. It started a couple of weeks ago when I asked a question on Twitter. This is the question I asked. 

'If you owned a bookshop, what's the first book you'd get for the bookshelves? What's the one book you'd hate to run out of?'

We got a fantastic response and the suggestions are still coming in. If you have minute to spare AFTER you've read the newsletter, please reply to tell us what book you'd choose. 

The list so far is available to see here http://woodgreenbookshop.blogspot.com/2011/08/if-you-had-bookshop-whats-first-book.html

RIGHT

Here are all the things that are happening in the Bookshop this week. Go on, read it. I dare you. Better still; turn up at one of them.

Tuesday August 16^th at 7.00pm

'How to Get Your Children’s Book Published' with Claire Alexander.

Join children's author Illustrator Claire Alexander as she shows her original artworks and books, advises on how to approach publishers and talks about the current picture book market. 
Claire is an award winning children's illustrator and author, whose titles Lucy and the Bully, Small Florence and Lost in the Snow will be available on the night. 

She runs workshops and courses for budding children’s authors and on the night you'll be able to find out more about these also.

This is a FREE event.

Bring your own work along for constructive feedback.

Wednesday August 17th 11am Songs and stories for the under 5's

Wednesday August 17th - 700pm
Writing Group

We meet every fortnight and it's a drop in, where writers can come for support and advice. It's aimed at people writing fiction in any genre (sci-fi, horror, crime) and it encompasses all levels of experience, from those just starting out to published authors.

It's £3 a session and everyone is welcome

Friday August 19th 11am. Stories and songs for the under 5's

Friday August 19th 8.00pm-10.30pm

Working Title Comedy Presents...Tottenham Benefit Gig

Our Monthly Comedy Night will be a Benefit Gig.

ALL proceeds will be going to the Tottenham Fund, helping those local residents and businesses affected by the riots.
This time it's a minimum of £5 to get in and as usual BYOB.
The line up is astounding.

HEADLINER

Sir Ian Bowler MP (Natt Tapley)

"A powerhouse performance and funny with it”. Chortle" 
“Nathaniel Tapley delivered a topical comedy set of considerable class. With material as up to date as the Libyan no-fly zone, his punchlines repeatedly hit their targets.” The Stage
Great.” Evening Standard
2011 – Finalist in the New Act Of The Year competition (formerly Hackney Empire New Act Of The Year)

2011 – Semi-finalist in the Musical Comedy Awards

2008 – Finalist in Laughing Horse New Act of The Year

SUPPORTING

Luke Capasso

We've had him on before. He's so awesome, we brought him back. Italian American and the manliest man in London.

A deeply personal act who waxes on about his unique view of family life, politics, living abroad and of course dick jokes.

Watch him deal with being attacked by a psychotic fan here on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg5b7m6-TBE

Johnny Armstrong

(Short-listed to take part in the BBC New Comedy Awards 2011
Finalist - King Gong, The Comedy Store, February 2009
Finalist - Chortle Student Comedy Awards 2008)

MC

Chris Brosnahan

MORE NAMES TO BE
ANNOUNCED.

Get your tickets early by clicking HERE, This will ensure you get in.

Hope you can make it.

Saturday August 20th 10.30am onwards

Operation 'Clean Up The Bit By the Side of the Bookshop'

Those of you who have visited the bookshop will have probably noticed the weed filled gravelled area to the left of our bookshop that looks like a teeny tiny car park and is often full of rubbish that passersby throw in there. This area is actually ours (we pay rent on it!) and we'd like to make more of it. So this Saturday, we're going to be having a big Clean Up day.

There's a lot of rubbish that needs to be cleared and taken to the dump and lots of weeding too, but by the end of the day we're hoping that the area will be a totally cleared and ready for stage 2 of our plan. This will be to add some raised beds, plant some flowers, put up fencing, so that rubbish doesn't get chucked in there, and put out a couple of tables and chairs, so people can sit outside when it's sunny, read a book and have a coffee.

We'd be really grateful if you could come along to help with the clean up on Saturday. There aren't many places in Wood Green where you can sit outside and it will be great when it's finished. 
The other part of this shameless plea is, does anyone have any fencing panels lying around that they could spare for stage 2 of Operation Clean Up? I realise this is highly unlikely, but we're looking for some 6 foot high wooden fence panels to put up to ensure that the area stays clean and tidy after Saturday. 

If you do, please get in touch. 

Hope you can come along and that the weather's nice.

Saturday August 20th 10.30-11.30

Children’s Book Group- The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness 
Our monthly children’s Book group will be talking about the first of Patrick Ness's brilliant trilogy. This group is aimed at kids of around 9-12 who love reading and don't mind talking about books. Come along.

Saturday August 20th 11.30-1.00pm
Children's illustrator Zehra Hicks joins us for Tooth related Tomfoolery

I recently visited a wonderful independent bookshop called The Bookbarge (it's a bookshop on a barge) on its 6 month tour of the country. Whilst I was on board they had a fantastic author event by Zehra Hicks, who has written and illustrated a kids book called The Boy Who Hated Toothbrushes. It was great fun and Zehra was brilliant. 
Not one to miss out on an opportunity, I asked if Zehra would like to visit the Big Green Bookshop to do something similar. The answer was YES.
The book itself centres around Billy, who as you can probably guess, hates cleaning his teeth. Then he is given a Funtastic Toothsparkler by the Tooth Fairy. Is this enough to get Billy to clean his teeth? Well you'll have to find out on August 20th, when Zehra will be here reading from her book and getting us to design some fantastic toothbrushes of our own. 
This should be a great fun event and we hope that you can make it

Sunday August 21st 10.00am-12.00
Big Green Bookshop Local Market

The second of our Mini-Farmer’s Market inside and outside the shop is happening on Sunday August 21st from 10am. Hopefully this will become a regular thing if enough people come along. And may grow into something really special.
We had 5 or 6 stalls selling locally produced stuff (cakes, home-grown veg, plants, Tottenham Honey, homemade preserves, crafts, and the like), but we'd love to have more. Especially if you have an allotment or similar, and have a wheelbarrow or more of stuff you think you'd like to sell.
So, if you'd like to have a stall, you have good stuff to sell and are LOCAL please get in touch (Stalls are free). 
Of course the shop will be open selling the best stuff of all… Books. 
Come along. Tell your friends. Tell your friends to come along and to tell their friends to come along too.

Click here to be taken to our glorious events page. (If the link doesn’t work cut and paste the following URL into your browser http://www.biggreenbookshop.com/events-diary/info_6.html)

Lovely. 
Have a great week, 
Simon, Tim and Mark