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Brown and queer contemporary storytelling set to stunning live music.

Fresh from a smashing run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (and a sellout show here at the shop in January!) critically acclaimed storyteller Niall Moorjani reimagines the folk classic Thomas the Rhymer in an evening of strangeness, sexy fairies and swearing. An original piece which explores queerness, Scottish race and gender identities through a medieval-inspired landscape. Set to a live original score from cellist Diana Redgrave, this is storytelling at its experimental best.

Directed by Minnie Wilkinson. Originally commissioned for the Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2022.

 

Duration: 1 hour

Age Guidance: 15+ (Swearing, sexual references)

 

Join author Dana Fox and guests to celebrate the launch of his new book!

 

The Doctor wouldn’t be half the Time Lord they are, without some assistance. But how much do you know about the people who played the companions? This book is the first of its kind. It’s your comprehensive guide to the actors who have played Doctor Who companions over the years.

Inside, you will find biographies of every companion actor who has been in Doctor Who. There are complete chronologies of companion arrivals and departures through the show’s history, enriched with original interviews with some of the cast. As an encyclopaedia, it is packed with dates, details and knowledge, a valuable reference source for any Doctor Who fan.

As a guide, this book also offers a personal perspective on the show and explores what these talented, hard-working professionals brought to the show. The author traces its origins in 1963, through the ensuing decades, and takes you right up to the most recent serials. Doctor Who: An Encyclopaedia of Companion Actors is a testament to the actors and a meticulously-crafted love-letter to the show. 

 

Part of Feminist Book Fortnight 2025. Join poet Erica Hesketh to celebrate the release of her astounding debut collection, In the Lily Room (Nine Arches Press). Erica will read from the book and be in conversation with storyteller and writer Laura Sampson. Free event!

 

‘Erica Hesketh asks “What if all the world’s mothers / rose up at once…” Perhaps if we did, our conversations would sound like these poems, which look head-on at the frightening, transformative, love-filled days of early motherhood. Medical misogyny, birth trauma, postnatal depression, joy and boredom – all of this and more are held in place in these lyrical, image-drenched poems as Hesketh expands our ideas and perceptions around what it means to be a mother.’ Kim Moore
 

‘In poems of great skill, daring and beauty, Hesketh somehow contains the leaky mess of new parenthood. This is for all the mothers – mother of stone, mother of ice, mother of fire, mother of dark. A stunning debut: intelligent, tender and unwaveringly true.’ Clare Pollard

 

GALLERY
A CELEBRATION OF NATURE - BRIDIE WOODS
This month in our gallery: works on paper or canvas by Bridie Woods. 'My work is mainly a celebration of nature through colour, composition and form. I want my art to be uplifting and a reminder of the beauty of the nature that is accessible to most of us through our gardens, local walks, parks, trees, plants, flowers and foliage. The media I use includes pastels, watercolour, gouache and acrylic, on paper or canvas.' Free.