By popular demand, another Jake Thackray evening, with Paul Thompson

Tue Sep 23 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm UTC+01:00

14A Long Row, NG1 2DH Nottingham, United Kingdom | Nottingham

Five Leaves Bookshop
Publisher/HostFive Leaves Bookshop
By popular demand, another Jake Thackray evening, with Paul Thompson
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Mixing colourful readings from Jake’s unsung writing with talking about his life and performing some of his songs.
Hilarious, irreverent, poignant, fanciful, quirky, poetic, imaginative, original. Jake Thackray was a storytelling genius who loved using words to entertain, move, surprise and provoke. While his extraordinary songs are rightly celebrated, they were not the beginning of his life as a writer, nor the end.
Jake Thackray – The Unsung Writer gives us the chance to explore his other writing: love poetry, an experimental short story, his charming script for a school musical, amusing pen portraits, his first published work, tall tales crafted for his concerts, and his acclaimed, colourful columns for the Yorkshire Post and Catholic Herald.
Paul Thompson, co-author of the acclaimed biography, Beware of the Bull – The Enigmatic Genius of Jake Thackray and author of the new Jake Thackray – The Unsung Writer.
Refreshments included
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