Featured Events in Grange in May, 2025 (June Updated)

Milestones for MS - Novice Powerlifting Competition Welcome to our in-person Novice Powerlifting Competition, where beginners can showcase their strength and determination for a good cause. Join us for a day filled with powerlifting, cheers, and empowerment. Lift your way to milestones while supporting those living with multiple sclerosis. We are supporting MSPlus on the day. Don't miss out on this opportunity to set personal records and be part of a supportive community. Save the date and get ready to lift! Following the IPF rulebook with no equipment list to follow, come enjoy your first ever Powerlfiting competition with us. 3 Lift Raw, the main lifts are Squat, Bench and Deadlift. You will get 3 attempts of each. Max 30 Entrees. Information Source: Power Elite | eventbrite

Welcome to the Little Batters FREE Taster Session! Join us at the Olton and West Warwickshire Cricket Club for a fun-filled cricket taster session where your little ones can discover the joy of cricket. Little Batters has introduced 1000+ children to the game of cricket and we would love your child(ren) to give it a go too. If you enjoy the taster session then there is a 9 week programme starting the following week priced at £66. Information Source: Olton WWCC | eventbrite

Welcome to the Big Hit Cricket FREE Taster Session! Join us at the Olton and West Warwickshire Cricket Club for a fun-filled cricket taster session aimed at both Boys & Girls who would like to try out Big Hit Cricket. Big Hit Cricket has been a very popular and successful introduction to the game of cricket and we would love your child(ren) to give it a go too. If you enjoy the taster session then there is a seperate Girls & Boys sessions that can be booked onto. Information Source: Olton WWCC | eventbrite

We're thrilled to welcome cultural historian, Tiffany Watt Smith to the bookshop to celebrate the publication of her latest book, Bad Friend: A century of revolutionary friendships. Join us on Wednesday 7th May at 7pm when Tiffany will be in conversation about the book, before answering questions from the audience and signing copies of Bad Friend. Tickets are £6 general admission or £22 including a copy of the book. Complimentary drinks will also be provided. Tickets are non-refundable and if you can't attend and would like to reserve a signed copy of the book, do get in touch. We look forward to seeing you there! About Bad Friend: 'Beautiful, generous, gentle.' HANNAH DAWSON 'Thrilling and unexpected.' DAISY HAY 'Compelling.' JOE MORAN A rebellious new history of female friendship and timely reclamation of the 'bad friend'. Move over idealised BFFs, glossy gal pals and indestructible work wives. Meet the bad friends. The dangerously romantic school girls of the 1900s. The office gossips of the 1930s. The mum cliques of the 1950s. The angry activists of the 1970s. The coven - women who choose to live together in old age - of the present day. These 'bad' friends broke the rules about femininity they didn't write. Their relationships were controlled, patrolled and judged too intimate, too consuming and in some cases, too powerful. In this history of women's friendship, celebrated cultural historian Tiffany Watt Smith reckons with the ways we understand this complex and vital connection. She takes us from Japan to the Ivory Coast, The Mindy Project to Zadie Smith's Swing Time, from prisons to film sets to hospital wards and elder communities, untangling the assumptions about good and bad friends we live by. Weaving together history, interviews and memoir, Bad Friend offers what's long overdue: a more expansive, more rebellious vision of friendship fit for twenty-first-century life. About Tiffany Watt Smith: Tiffany Watt Smith is the author of The Book of Human Emotions and Schadenfreude. She has been a recipient of multiple awards and prizes including from the Wellcome Trust, the British Academy and in 2019 was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for her work. She frequently gives public talks, including a TED talk, 'The History of Emotion Emotions' viewed more than 4.5 million times. She is Reader (Emerita) in Cultural History at Queen Mary University of London, where she ran the Centre for the History of Emotions. In 2024, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. You can find her on Substack The Future Feeling and on X @DrTiffWattSmith Information Source: The West Kirby Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us on Wednesday 14th May, 7pm, when we'll be joined by novelist Katharina Volckmer to celebrate the publication of her second book, Calls May be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes . Katharina will be reading from the book, before being in conversation with Jordan from the bookshop, answering questions from the audience and signing copies of her novels. Tickets are £6 standard admission, £16 including a copy of Calls May be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes. 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 sort this for you. We look forward to seeing you there! About Calls May be Recorded for Training and Monitoring Purposes: ‘This book is filled with brilliant dialogue, unexpected turns, some very dirty talk with sudden bursts of hilarity, and then fierce sadness. It exudes dark energy. It is highly original. It gives pleasure on every page.‘—Colm Tóibín, author ofBrooklyn and Long Island ‘Raucous, incisive and wholly original, the world of Volckmer’s novel lays bare modern life’s gross indignations, mordant desires and naked ambitions with wit and clarity.’ —Eley Williams, author ofModerate to Poor, Occasionally Good In a London call centre, Jimmie helps holiday makers with myriad problems, but he is hardly a model employee. He doesn’t simply provide customer service to his clients and advice to his colleagues, he gets involved in their fantasies and frustrations, and now he’s about to be hauled up in front of the boss. From perfecting his roles as an undertaker and as a clown to performing duties above and beyond his employment contract, he debates the importance of the optimum shade for lipstick and bathroom walls, the pros and cons of nudist versus textile, as well as the psychological impacts of an Italian mother and an emotional support animal. This is the second, ribald, scatological novel from the brilliant author of The Appointment. Jimmie’s sly, sharp, melancholy insights into the indignities of a world which aims to eliminate the human will make you laugh, weep and never look the same way at an electric carving knife again. About Katharina Volckmer: Katharina Volckmer was born in Germany in 1987. She now lives in London where she works for a literary agency. Her first novel The Appointment has been translated into over 15 languages and has been adapted for the stage and radio in several countries. Information Source: The West Kirby Bookshop | eventbrite

We're thrilled to welcome Agustina Bazterrica to West Kirby to celebrate the publication of her latest book, The Unworthy (translated by Sarah Moses). Join us on Thursday 29th May, 7pm when Agustina will be in conversation about the book, answering questions from the audience and singing copies of The Unworthy. Tickets are £6 standard admission or £20 (including a copy of the book). Please note that this event is non-refundable and if you can't make the talk and would like to reserve a signed copy of The Unworthy, do get in touch. About The Unworthy: 'Barbaric, brutal and utterly beautiful. The Unworthy is a searing haunt of a novel that I will never forget.' --- Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb 'Brutal and aching. A perfect fever dream of a book.' --- Heather Darwent, author of The Things We Do to Our Friends 'Unflinching, uncompromising, and unforgettable. Agustina Bazterrica shines a light at the end of the brutal and bleak path we are on so that maybe, just maybe, we can turn around and forge a new one.' --- Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World A fearsomely dark, incantatory new dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic convent from the author of viral sensation Tender is the Flesh In the House of the Sacred Sisterhood, the unworthy live in fear of the Superior Sister's whip. Seething with resentment, they plot against each other and await who will ascend to the level of the Enlightened - and who will suffer the next exemplary punishment. Risking her life, one of the unworthy keeps a diary in secret. Slowly, memories surface from a time before the world collapsed, before the Sacred Sisterhood became the only refuge. Then Lucía arrives. She, too, is unworthy - but she is different. And her presence brings a single spark of hope to a world of darkness. About Agustina Bazterrica: Agustina Bazterrica is an Argentinian novelist and short-story writer. She is a central figure in the Buenos Aires literary scene, working as a cultural organiser and workshop curator. She has received several awards for her writing, most notably the Premio Clarín Novela for her second novel, Tender is the Flesh, which has been translated into over 20 languages and is also available from Pushkin Press. Information Source: The West Kirby Bookshop | eventbrite