Booka Bookshop and Linghams Booksellers are thrilled to present an evening with bestselling author Maggie O’Farrell, to celebrate the publication of her new novel, Land.
Inspired by the mapping of Ireland in the mid nineteenth century, the new novel from the author of Hamnet is at once intimate and epic: a portrait of a family navigating a legacy of upheaval and survival with resilience and love.
Land is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts and a particularly loyal dog. It’s also a story about place, and how layers of history change landscapes and the people who live in them.As spellbinding and various as the landscape that inspired it, Land is, above all, a story of survival, for our times, and for all time.
Don’t miss this opportunity to see Maggie O’Farrell ‘live’ in Chester this June and celebrate the release of one of the most anticpated novels of 2026.
The ‘with book’ ticket includes a copy of Land (RRP £25), stamped with an author signature exclusive to the Land tour.
Maggie O’Farrell is the author of nine previous novels, including Hamnet which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020. Hamnet has been made into a film and Maggie co-wrote the screenplay with Academy-Award-winning director Chloé Zhao. The film starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, has already won Best Motion Picture – Drama at the Golden Globes and the audience award at multiple film festivals including Telluride, Toronto and London. Maggie’s bestselling titles include the novels After You’d Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand that First Held Mine, The Marriage Portrait and her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am.
Tickets: £20 (General Admission) or £35 (Admission with book included)