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SUMMARY:Simon Mason with Russ Thomas: The Woman Who Laughed
DESCRIPTION:At  La Biblioteka \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening with acclaimed author Simon Mason\, in conversation with Sheffield’s own Russ Thomas\, as they delve into Simon’s gripping new novel—a haunting crime story set in the aftermath of the 2020 lockdowns. When the bag of a murdered sex worker reappears five years after her disappearance\, old wounds are reopened and new questions arise. With themes of justice\, memory\, and the unseen lives in our cities\, this promises to be a powerful and thought-provoking event. \n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nIn the first months of 2020\, there was a spate of murders of Black sex workers in northern cities. One of them was Ella Bailey\, last seen talking to a punter in an alley in Sheffield city centre\, and although no trace of her was ever found\, the punter\, Michael Godley\, soon confessed to all three murders. Five years later\, as another sex worker is murdered in the same district\, the bag Ella had been carrying with her reappears\, hanging on the door handles of a café\, and a local vagrant claims to have seen Ella sitting on a bench in a churchyard near the site of the murder. \n\n\n\nSouth Yorkshire Police call in the Finder. So begins a search that takes him back to the strange days of the pandemic\, to talk to those who knew Ella best\, such as her wayward girlfriend ‘Loz’\, abusive boyfriend Caine Poynton-Smith and respectable foster-parents still struggling to come to terms with Ella’s life. How did their intelligent\, strong-willed daughter\, a bright student and national schoolgirl athletics champion\, end up in that alley? \n\n\n\nAs fear grips the city\, our Finder must court danger to discover the truth. \n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nSimon Mason has pursued parallel careers as a publisher and an author\, whose YA crime novels Running Girl\, Kid Got Shot and Hey\, Sherlock! feature the sixteen-year-old slacker genius Garvie Smith. A former Managing Director of David Fickling Books\, where he worked with many wonderful writers\, including Philip Pullman\, he has also taught at Oxford Brookes University and has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Exeter College\, Oxford. \n\n\n\nLocation:
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SUMMARY:Raoul de Jong: Jaguarman
DESCRIPTION:at La Biblioteka\, Leah’s Yard\,Sheffield\, S1 4HP \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re delighted to be co-hosting this special evening with the Centre of Dutch and Flemish Studies at the University of Sheffield\, welcoming two visionary artists whose work is reshaping the dialogue between Suriname\, the Netherlands\, and the global postcolonial landscape: author Raoul de Jong and filmmaker Ida Does. \n\n\n\nAt the heart of the evening is the highly anticipated launch of the English translation of Raoul de Jong’s seminal novel\, Jaguarman. Far more than a memoir\, it is a direct challenge to nationally framed colonial narratives — weaving together historical fact with inherited rituals\, poetry\, and ancestral stories to craft an alternative history of Suriname that recovers what traditional archives often ignore. \n\n\n\nRaoul de Jong (b. 1984\, Netherlands) is a novelist and journalist whose six books include Jaguarman (2020)\, a powerful retelling of Suriname’s colonial history through the eyes of an Amazonian ancestor with the power to become a jaguar — nominated for both the Libris Prize and the EU Prize for Literature. He received the Anna Blaman Prize for his entire oeuvre in 2022\, and his 2023 Dutch National Bookweek Essay\, Boto Banja\, debuted at the top of the bestseller charts. \n\n\n\nEvent Related Books & Products \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJaguarman\n\n\n\n\n					£14.99\n				\n\n\n				Born to a Dutch mother and Surinamese father he doesn’t know\, Raoul is barely 30 when he receives an email from a man looking for his son. From this late meeting with his father about his Surinamese ancestry\, a mention of a mysterious ancestor who transformed himself into a jaguar\,… \n\n			\n\nIn stock \n\n	\n	\n		\n		\n		Jaguarman quantity\n	−+\n	\n\n		Add to basket\n\n			\n\n	\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation:  \n\n\n\nS1 4HP
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