We're absolutely thrilled to be welcoming Amor Towles to Henleaze on Saturday 25th May to discuss his new collection of short stories, Table for Two.

Amor is one of our favourite authors and his second novel, A Gentleman In Moscow, our second biggest selling book since we opened in 2018, is soon to arrive on our tv screens with Ewan McGregor in the lead role. His other novels, Rules of Civility and The Lincoln Highway have also proved immensely popular with both our staff and customers. Frankly, we can't quite believe he's coming to Henleaze!

Date:
Saturday 25th May 2024

Venue: 
Bradbury Hall, Trinity Henleaze URC, Waterford Rd, Henleaze, Bristol, BS9 4BT

Time: 
Doors at 18:45. Discussion at 19:30. Finish at 21:00.

Tickets: 
£20 - ticket with book
£30 - two tickets with one book
£1 - Pay What You Can ticket only (please only buy these if you need to as they are limited)

Seats are unreserved so please arrive early to get the best seats.

Your ticket will be emailed to you
Please bring it with you on the night, either on your phone or printed out.

All of Amor's books will be available to buy on the night.

ABOUT TABLE FOR TWO

Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towles’s novel Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September 1938 with the intention of returning home to Indiana.

But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view, “Eve in Hollywood” describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself—and others—in a noirish tale that takes us through the movie sets, bungalows, and dive bars of Los Angeles. Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting fiction.

ABOUT AMOR TOWLES

Born and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. Having worked as an investment professional for over twenty years, he now devotes himself full time to writing in Manhattan, where he lives with his wife and two children. His novels Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway have collectively sold more than six million copies and been translated into more than thirty languages. Both Bill Gates and President Barack Obama included A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway on their annual book recommendation lists.

Rules of Civility (2011) was a New York Times bestseller and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of the year. The book’s French translation received the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald.

A Gentleman in Moscow (2016) was on the New York Times bestseller list for two years and was named one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Francisco Chronicle, and NPR.

The Lincoln Highway (2021) debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Towles’s short stories have appeared in the Paris Review (#112), Granta (#148), British Vogue, and Audible Originals.  Towles wrote the introduction to Scribner’s 75th anniversary edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night and the Penguin Classics edition of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. “As for Clothing”, Towles’s essay on Walden, appears in the anthology Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau.