We are excited to announce that Louise O’Hare will be appearing at The Broadway Bookshop on Thursday 5 March in a special event celebrating her book Centrefold 1974: A Memoir, published in 2024 by MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE. Louise will be joined by Holly Pester (The Lodgers) and Nida Sajid (COOP: A Novelette) who will be responding to Centrefold and reading new work.

Shifting between the Corbyn years in Tower Hamlets, London, and 1970s New York and Los Angeles, Centrefold takes in nursery privatisation, artworld silencing and censorship, maintenance art, performances of motherhood, and masturbation.

Pulling out threads from this ‘mesmerising work of feminist research’ (Helen Charman), O’Hare, Pester and Sajid will engage with gossip, lullabies, rest/worksongs, daughterhood, friendship, solidarity, and the potentials and complicities of liberal institutions during these times of expanding repression of dissent, colonisation and genocide.

Readings will start at 7pm and be compèred by Jess Chandler of Prototype Publishing, who wrote the recent open letter from independent presses on the worsening economic realities of small press publishing—warning of the further loss of publishers who enable creative risk, foster experimentation, and challenge an environment of increasing state censorship of Palestine solidarity.

Copies of Centrefold 1974: A Memoir, Nida Sajid’s first novel COOP (Hajar Press, 2025), and Holly Pester’s The Lodgers (Granta, 2024), Comic Timing (Granta, 2021), Go to reception and ask for Sara in red felt tip (Book Works, 2015), and Common Rest (a vinyl by Test Centre, 2016) will be on display and available to purchase.

Drinks (Lillet, with lime) will be served.

Entry is free but spaces are limited.

Visit the Broadway Books website for tickets.