By Popular Demand, Another Jake Thackray Evening, With Paul Thompson

Tuesday 23 September 2025

At Five Leaves Bookshop

Price £5 - £0
Times 19:00 - 20:30

 Mixing colourful readings from Jake’s unsung writing with talking about his life and performing some of his songs.

Hilarious, irreverent, poignant, fanciful, quirky, poetic, imaginative, original. Jake Thackray was a storytelling genius who loved using words to entertain, move, surprise and provoke. While his extraordinary songs are rightly celebrated, they were not the beginning of his life as a writer, nor the end.

 

Jake Thackray – The Unsung Writer gives us the chance to explore his other writing: love poetry, an experimental short story, his charming script for a school musical, amusing pen portraits, his first published work, tall tales crafted for his concerts, and his acclaimed, colourful columns for the Yorkshire Post and Catholic Herald.

 

Paul Thompson, co-author of the acclaimed biography, Beware of the Bull – The Enigmatic Genius of Jake Thackray and author of the new Jake Thackray – The Unsung Writer.

 

Refreshments included

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14a Long Row, Nottingham
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