From 7pm • The Arkwright Room at The Embankment • Wednesday 28th October • Tickets from £5
Five Leaves Bookshop presents a talk from authors Amit Singh and Sivamohan Valluvan about their new book from Manchester University Press – Pubs for the People.
Copies of the book will be on sale on the night, and can be purchased along with a ticket from the Five Leaves Website.
In Pubs for the People, Amit Singh and Sivamohan Valluvan offer a daring defence of the humble public house, waging battle against those who see the pub only as a poignant symbol of a bygone England.
Making a journey into the nation’s living room, they blend tales of Singh’s father – the founder of London’s first ‘Desi pub’ – with a lively travelogue that carries them from a hipster nightmare in Shoreditch to an izakaya-inspired Eccles pub run by migrants from Hong Kong. Along the way, they take on private equity, yuppie gentrifiers and culture-war blowhards who use the pub as a prop for their rage-baiting patriotism.
Hosted by the Nottingham brewing and publican legends Castle Rock, so you can have a delicious, locally brewed beer while hearing all about the history and future of the British pub.
Life today can seem lonelier, angrier and poorer than it did before. But as Singh and Valluvan show, the pub offers the inviting prospect of a more equal, sociable and comfortably multiracial England.
Like the sound of that?
