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

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