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The Tines are a New England based outfit formed as a recording project in late 2019, and creating a cleverly crafted indie rock that focuses on the balance of tension and beauty. They will be at the bookshop on Wednesday, June 3rd at 3pm, performing an acoustic set as a guitar/vocals duo. The Tines released their first EP, The Enemy Is Listening (Free As Birds Records) in 2020, and began to perform live in 2021. A self-titled debut album came out on Funnybone Records in 2022. They have performed around the Northeast US and EU, appeared at the Arts and Ideas Festival, Garé a la Rochette, The Thing In Spring, and Limb Snapping, playing with artists like Daniel Romano, The Huntress and Holder of Hands, Lee Ronaldo, Improvement Movement, and The Futurebirds. As a solo artist, S.G. Carlson has appeared alongside Andy Shauf, Michael Nau, Erin Durant, and Shaun Rowe. Their second album, Barrows, released on March 20, 2026 via Funnybone Records to great acclaim, receiving 9 out of 10 stars on Americana UK, and praise from Shindig Magazine, Spill Magazine, Daily Nut Meg and more. Their music is available on your favourite streaming sites and in depdendent record shops….

Noted Palestinian writer Yousri Alghoul is coming to the bookshop on 24th June to discuss his experiences in Gaza, as well as his latest publication, Book of Wills. Published in March by Akoya, eighteen Gazan writers share their last will and testament. The book is a profound exploration of the written word as both an act of resistance and a refusal to be erased. The collection includes pieces by several writers who have since been killed. Yousri published his first collection of short stories, Singing at Her Death, in 2007 and has since published the novels Before Death / After Madness, The Dead Resurrected from Gaza, Fifty Days, and Layla (all in Arabic), as well as Gaza 87, which focuses on Gaza since the outbreak of the first Intifada in 1987. Most recently, his reports from Gaza have been translated into English and can be found here, here, here, and here. Doors at 18.30, the event will start at 19.00. At the request of the author, we will be selling Book of Wills and related books at cost price. Sign up here.