Live a complete life on your own terms – join us for an evening with journalist, writer and public speaker Nicola Slawson as she talks about her new book Single.

Around 40 per cent of UK adults are single at any one time. Far from being a transitional state between relationships, singledom can offer freedom, self-discovery and self-determination. At the same time, there are challenges, from social to economic. How do you handle being ill if you are alone? Who do you call if you’re stranded out late at night? If you don’t find the right person to have a baby with, should you become a parent alone?

In Single, Nicola explores being un-partnered in a world designed for couples, and how to find the joy in the life that you are already living. If you are newly single, long-term single, avowedly single, reluctantly so, considering leaving your current relationship or just wondering what to say to your aunt next time she asks if you’ll ever get married – this book is for you.

Nicola Slawson has written a warm, joyful book full of solidarity with lots of new ways of looking at single life. Having chosen it as our non-fiction Book of the Month for February, we look forward to welcoming her to Booka.


‘A joyous read’ Stylist

‘Fiercely honest and comforting’ Irish Independent

‘The book every single woman needs’ Rebecca Reid

‘I wish Single existed when I was single’ Natasha Lunn, author of Conversations on Love

Tickets: £10 without book (Admits One, ticket redeemable against a signed copy of Single) or £17 with book (Admits One, includes a signed copy of Single).