Ruth Ozeki - The Typing Lady and Other Fictions

We are so pleased to be welcoming Ruth Ozeki to the bookshop to discuss her brilliant new book, The Typing Lady and Other Fictions. The first story collection from the Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction is cause for celebration and we couldn't be happier that she will be here and in conversation with Sam Baker, host of The Shift podcast.

This event will take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience, as well as a livestream for attendees watching from home. There will be a signing after the event.

In-person vouchers can be redeemed on the night of the event against a single copy of The Typing Lady and Other Fictions – we will have a list of attendees with vouchers to be redeemed. Please note that only one voucher can be redeemed per book. Livestream vouchers are valid until the day after the event and can be redeemed on our website against a single copy of The Typing Lady and Other Fictions.

About The Typing Lady and Other Fictions:

The first story collection from the Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget and the stories that shape us long after the last page is turned.

Exploring childhood ambition, youthful desire, midlife reinvention, and the unsparing clarity of old age, Ozeki brings us 12 richly imagined stories of characters standing at life’s thresholds. A college student falls for her professor and learns to transmute longing into language. A disquieted husband watches as the ghost of his wife’s ambition roams the woods outside their home. A long-deceased Beat poet hijacks the mind of a young publishing assistant and rails against the state of modern literature. A curious grandmother creates a fake online dating profile to spy on her granddaughter’s romantic life – and sets in motion a deception she can’t control.

Spanning eras and geographies, The Typing Lady is an electrifying meditation on the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we abandon and the stories we become. Threaded with the tactile ephemera of writing – typewriters, letters, manuscripts and disappearing ink – the book reveals how we record ourselves in language, and how language, over time, records us in return.