Join us on Friday 13th June, 7pm, when debut non-fiction writer Charlie Colenutt will be at the bookshop to celebrate the publication of Is This Working?
Charlie will be in conversation with Jordan from the bookshop, before answering questions from the audience and signing copies of the book.
Tickets are £6 standard admission or £20 including a copy of Is This Working? Complimentary drinks will be provided.
Tickets are non-refundable but if you can't make the event and would like to reserve a signed & dedicated copy of the book please email hello@thewestkirbybookshop.com and we'll be able to help.
We look forward to seeing you there!
About Is This Working?
'Fascinating and often moving.' - The Sunday Times
'Unique and unexpectedly moving: it’s a choral work of frustration, pride and despair.'
- The Telegraph
'Charlie Colenutt’s intense and revealing interviews capture the raw voices of people talking honestly about work . . . Read this, as each one opens a hidden window on the way we live now.' - Polly Toynbee
For the best part of two years Charlie Colenutt travelled the country to talk to a hundred strangers, from all walks of life about their jobs: What did they do for a living? Why did they do it? Did they like it?
They met in coffee shops, chain pubs or front rooms. Through hearing people tell their stories, he found out the number of birds killed a day in a poultry factory, the order in which patients are woken up in care homes, and the reasons why you shouldn’t smile when you are shown your bonus in an investment bank. He spoke with the church minister who, maddened by his email inbox, has come to feel more like an administrator than a spiritual leader; the cleaner that became so frustrated by the lack of change in her local area that she ran to be a councillor and won; the baker who used to hate touching flour; and the trade union organiser, not pressured by hours or targets, but by the cause.
Together, the voices in Is This Working? tell a story about the one thing that most British adults have in common – work.
About Charlie Colenutt:
Charlie Colenutt studied history at the University of Oxford, where he won the Gibbs Prize. After his undergraduate studies, he stayed in Oxford as the Amelia Jackson scholar, completing a postgraduate degree on the history of the United States. He lives on a hill near High Wycombe. Is This Working? is his debut book.
