Sunday 2nd February / 1pm- 3pm / £12pp

This month Get Lit will be discussing Ainslie Hogarth's Motherthing.

About the book:

'Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She's venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, who has a complicated understanding of motherhood given the way her own, now-estranged, mother raised her.

When Laura takes her own life, her ghost starts to haunt Abby and Ralph in very different ways. Ralph is plunged into depression, and Abby is being terrorized by a force intent on taking everything she loves away from her. With everything on the line, Abby must make the ultimate sacrifice in order to prove her adoration…

Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his passing when everything around them seems to be ending anyway.

As the sisters come together to clear the grand glass house that is the pinnacle of his legacy, they begin to sense that the magnetic influence of their father lives on through it. Soon it becomes clear that others have also taken an interest in both his estate and in them, and that perhaps their inheritance may not be theirs alone.

Ticket price includes snacks & drinks.

Sunday 9th February 2025 / 1pm - 3pm / £30pp

Create 2 pairs of polymer clay earrings using the slab building technique.

After the workshop your pieces will be taken away to be baked & assembled. They will then post them to you!

Contact Kay Jay Clay via instagram to book

Saturday 1st March / 10.30am - 1pm or 1.30pm - 4pm / £65pp

This leather making workshop will teach you how to make your own leather saddle bag with award winning textile artist and leather bag designer Lee Mattocks.

Colours available include: burgundy, dark green, yellow

Saturday 8th March / 10.30am - 1pm & 1.30pm - 4pm / £35pp

This leather making workshop will teach you how to make your own leather horse purse with award winning textile artist and leather bag designer Lee Mattocks.

Colours available include ochre, chestnut, black

Saturday 5th April / 10.30pm - 12.30pm / £70pp

Sculpt Ornamental Brass Flower Stems
Learn the art of cold carving and sculpting in wax to create your own beautifully detailed flower blooms, which will be cast into brass to become elegant ornamental flower stems.

Knead, sculpt, and carve soft wax sheets to form delicate petals, leaves, and natural floral details. Use small files, carving tools, and your fingers to craft your own unique blooms, which will be professionally cast into brass.

Create Your Own Unique Flower Designs
This workshop encourages creativity and personal expression. You’ll have the freedom to sculpt any type of flower you like — from classic roses and daisies to exotic blooms of your own invention. Visual inspiration, reference materials, and live demonstrations will be provided to spark your imagination and guide you through the process.

What's Included:
Expert tuition from Amber Cooper-Green
All necessary materials and tools to create at least two flower blooms
Visual inspiration and live demos to support your creativity
Hot drinks and cake
Casting of your wax creations into brass (two blooms included)
Sanding ,soldering the brass stems and polishing of your finished brass flowers
Postage of your finished pieces to your chosen address

Cost:
£70 for two brass flower stems (includes two bloom castings)
Additional bloom castings available for £20 each

Sunday 27th July / 1pm- 3pm / £12pp

This month Get Lit will be discussing Adam S Leslie's Lost in the Garden.

About the book:

'Like an old wives' tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one questioned or even thought about too hard. Like folklore. It was just something everyone knew, a rule to be followed. Don't go to Almanby.'

Heather, Rachel and Antonia are going to Almanby. Heather needs to find her boyfriend who, like so many, went and never came back. Rachel has a mysterious package to deliver, and her life depends on it. And Antonia - poor, lovestruck Antonia just wants the chance to spend the day with Heather.

So off they set through the idyllic yet perilous English countryside, in which nature thrives in abundance and summer lasts forever. And as they travel through ever-shifting geography and encounter strange voices in the fizz of shortwave…