Rough Trade Books and Lewisham Libraries present authors, Anna Whitwham and Hannah Patterson. This will be a relaxed event where you will have the opportunity to hear the authors read from their work and to ask questions. There will be books to borrow and buy on the night. About the books: Anna Whitwham's book 'Soft Tissue Damage' tells the story of her lifelong interest in boxing manifesting itself in the physical act of getting into the ring to fight. From her first tentative training sessions through bruising sparring sessions and building up to a full-blooded fight, Whitwham charts the transformative impact the sport——and all its complicated implications——has on her during a profoundly difficult period dealing with the grief of losing her mother to cancer. Tender, insightful, honest and full of startling and original thought, this is a book that fully examines what the human body is both capable and incapable of, a book that examines what the human body truly means in its capacity for sexuality and violence, love and death, strength and vulnerability. In Hannah Patterson's novel 'Ungone', Eve is attempting to come to terms with her ageing mother, who has dementia and lives in a care home, and employs Erin, a total stranger, to visit the home and pretend to be her. The act has profound consequences, as all three women begin a process of doing, undoing and redoing, with complicated and ultimately necessary truths revealed about each of their lives. Ungone tells the story of a single decision——a deceptively simple thing——through which the fractured, multi-layered nature of identity and the self is both revealed and interrogated. About Rough Trade Books: Rough Trade Books is a publishing venture in the mould of the pioneering independent record label. Bringing the same original spirit and radical direction to the world of book publishing. Since launching in June 2018, Rough Trade Books have produced over 50 pamphlets known as Rough Trade Editions, an accompanying tarot deck plus visual and cultural compendiums all about John Carpenter's cult film, They Live, and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, beautiful books about visionary artists Madge Gill and Marcel Dzama, as well as a small book series on the legendary, grass roots Brixton-based music venue The Windmill, Enya: A Treatise on Unguilty Pleasures by musical genius Chilly Gonzales, the highly praised auto-fiction memoir, In The End, It Was All About Love by Musa Okwonga, as well as I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel, which was named Foyles Fiction Book of the Year 2022 and won a British Book Award. Rough Trade Books brings together the very highest calibre of artists, writers, poets, musicians, photographers, illustrators and thinkers producing work relating to the irrelationship with the counter-culture. Rough Trade Books turned five in 2023. The milestone year saw the launch of our Patreon members community and a dynamic programme of publishing. Leading edge literary broadcasting continues apace on our Soho Radio each month on Monday afternoons from 2pm–4pm including new regular shows Tears for Frears hosted by Ella Frears and Breakfast of Champions hosted by Babak Ganjei.