Cooking Demonstration with Kumud Gandhi - Friday 5th July 2019

Join us for a live cookery demonstration and tastings with 'The Spice Queen' Kumud Gandhi at Dream Doors, Stert Street, on  Friday 5th July at 7:30pm (doors open 7:00pm).

Kumud's book 'A Cupboard Full of Spices' takes readers through the myriad of different spices, explains their benefits and to how to incorporate them into a range of delicious dishes.

Have you ever wondered why there are so many spices in Indian cooking?  And has it put you off trying a recipe?  Well you're not alone! This book is a compendium of 'spices' designed to help you really get to grips with their characteristics, health benefits and their practical uses in cooking.  So if you have an interest in real Indian food, then look no further.  This book will teach you to 'cook like an Indian'. 

Kumud Gandhi is a food scientist, author, public speaker and broadcaster based in Hertfordshire, UK.  She is the founder of The Cooking Academy cookery school in Rickmansworth and the author of  'A Cupboard Full of Spices'.

Ticket £15 available from Mostly Books and Eventbrite, to include a drink on the night, tastings and £2 redeemable against Kumud's book.

Dream Doors, 28 Stert St, Abingdon OX14 3JP

IBW Event: Katherine Rundell in Conversation with Lucy Mangan - 20th June

Award-winning author, Katherine Rundell, will be at Mostly Books on Thursday 20th June talking to Guardian journalist and author, Lucy Mangan, about why we should be reading more children's books. 

In 2016, Katherine Rundell - Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children – found her understanding of the world she lived in upturned: by Brexit, Trump, a sweep across Europe towards nationalism and insularity, terrorist attacks.  Literary fiction did not help her understanding, so instead, she turned to old narratives, told for the benefit of children and adults and anyone who would listen.

This Independent Bookshop Week (IBW), join Katherine Rundell – author of The Good Thieves, Lucy Mangan, Journalist and author of Bookworm; a Memoir of Childhood Reading, for an inspiring conversation about how children’s books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives on the world.

Katherine Rundell is the bestselling author of five children's novels, for which she has won the Costa Children’s Book Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize amongst many others. She spent her childhood in Africa and Europe before taking her degree at the University of Oxford and becoming a Fellow of All Souls College. As well as writing, she studies Renaissance literature; and is learning, as a direct result of writing her new stunning adventure story The Good Thieves (June 2019), to fly on the flying trapeze.

Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start.  Tickets are £12.50 and include a drink and a copy of Katherine's essay written exclusively for IBW called Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise.  

Copies of The Good Thieves and some of Katherine's backlist plus Lucy's new book, Bookworm; a Memoir of Childhood Reading will be available to purchase on the night.

Tickets are available from Mostly Books and from EventBrite.

Event Cancelled - Christina Jones will be at Mostly Books - 24th May

Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, the event with Christina Jones will no longer be going ahead.  Refunds will be offered to those that have already purchased tickets. Please accept our apologies for any disappointment.

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Christina Jones, who was born in Oxford and now lives in Abingdon, will be at Mostly Books on the evening of 24th May to talk about her new book, Only One Woman which will be published that day!

Two women, one love story. June 1968. Renza falls head over heels for heartthrob guitarist Scott.

But, after a romantic summer together, they are torn apart when Renza's family moves away. December 1968. On the night she believes to be her last, Stella meets Scott at a local dance.

He's the most beautiful boy she's ever seen and if this one night is all they have, she'll take it. As the colourful and final year of the sixties dawns, the question is: can there be only one woman for Scott? 

Christina has written all of her life (as well as having millions of 'proper jobs' including factory worker, secretary, nightclub dancer, blood donor attendant, barmaid, waitress, civil servant and fruit picker).  She had her first short story published when she was just 14 years old and says '....having a novel published was my life's ambition - and one that took another thirty years to achieve'.

Join us to hear about Christina's new book and her experience of the publishing world.  

Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start.  Tickets are £4 with £1 redeemable off the price of the book on the evening.  

Tickets available from Mostly Books and on EventBrite.

www.christinajones.co.uk/