Sheila Heti – Alphabetical Diaries

We're thrilled to welcome Sheila Heti to the bookshop to discuss her latest book, Alphabetical Diaries. It's a confessional work of non-fiction from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour and Motherhood. Heti will be in conversation with fellow writer Anahit Behrooz.

This event will take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience, as well as a livestream for attendees watching from home. There will be a signing after the event.

In-person vouchers can be redeemed on the night of the event against a single copy of Alphabetical Diaries – we will have a list of attendees with vouchers to be redeemed. Please note that only one voucher can be redeemed per book. Livestream vouchers are valid until the day after the event and can be redeemed on the website against a single copy of Alphabetical Diaries.

Please note that Alphabetical Diaries is published on 6th February. If you have signed up for a Book & In-Person or a Book & Livestream option and would like to receive your copy ahead of the event on Tuesday 21st May, please get in touch via our contact form and we'll be happy to help.

About Alphabetical Diaries:

‘A book about how difficult it is to change, why we don’t want to, and what is going on in our brain. A book can be about more than one thing, like a kaleidoscope, it can have many things that coalesce into one thing, different strands of a story, the attempt to do several, many, more than one thing at a time, since a book is kept together by its binding. A book like a shopping mart, all the selections. A book that does only one thing, one thing at a time. A book that even the hardest of men would read. A book that is a game.’

Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard’s I Remember and Edouard Levé’s Autoportrait, passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are the Alphabetical Diaries.