We are very pleased to announce that we have been able to agree a new date for our event with Kieran Yates for her book All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In. We had to postpone this one from the original date in May, so it’s great to be able to go ahead. The new date is 7pm Tuesday 18th July, in the bookshop.
The celebrated journalist and broadcaster, Kieran Yates is coming to Gloucester Road to talk about her essential new book, ‘All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In’.
We’ve all had our share of dodgy landlords, mould and awkward house shares. But journalist Kieran Yates has had more than most: by the age of twenty-five she’d lived in twenty different houses across the country, from council estates in London to car showrooms in rural Wales.
In prose that sparkles with humour and warmth, Yates charts the heartbreaks and joys of a life spent navigating the chaos of the housing system. Drawing on interviews with marginalised tenants across the country and the stories behind our interiors, she explores the unexpected ways we can fight back – finding beauty in the wreckage of a broken system, friendships in cramped housing conditions, and home even in the most fragile circumstances.
‘All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In’ is at once a rallying cry for change, a gorgeous coming-of-age story and a love letter to home in all its forms.
Kieran Yates is a London-based journalist, broadcaster and editor who has been writing about culture, technology and politics for over 10 years. She’s written everywhere from the Guardian, FADER, VICE, The Independent and beyond, had an acclaimed monthly column at VICE titled ‘British Values’, was nominated for Culture Writer of the Year in 2016 and regularly hosts events and panels discussing issues across music, politics, and news.
Kieran contributed to the award-winning book of essays, The Good Immigrant in 2017 about immigrant stories in the UK, where she wrote about ‘Going Home’. In 2015 she started a fanzine called ‘British Values’, a political satire and culture magazine that celebrates immigrant communities in the UK. She is the co-author of ‘Generation Vexed: What the English Riots Didn’t Tell Us About Your Nation’s Youth’.
