06/26/2025
Join and Sunday the 6th of July for a live event benefiting . We’ll also have signed books by , , , , and that we will giveaway to lucky attendees! Ticket link in bio or thirdmanstore.co.uk.
Below are the event’s featured authors, all who have writing in the Literarium book vending machine in the Blue Basement! Swipe to see (very) short extracts by each!
Will Burns
Nina Hervé
Sharan Hunjan
Richard John Parfitt
Nina Hervé is the publisher and co-owner of Rough Trade Books. She was born and raised in Jersey (the original one) and currently lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband, the writer Will Burns. Will is the author of two full collections of poetry, Country Music (Offord Road Books, 2020) and Natural Burial Ground (Corsair, 2024) as well as the novel The Paper Lantern (W&N 2021), which was chosen as one of the Top 10 debut novels of 2021 by The Observer.
Sharan Hunjan is a poet and teacher from London. She is part of the literary collective 4 Brown Girls Who Write She published her pamphlet, ‘Hatch’, as part of the 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE publication with Rough Trade Books in 2020. With this collective, she has performed at Stoke Newington Literary Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, British Library and Tate and appeared in British Vogue. Open Mouths is her debut full-length collection.
Richard John Parfitt is a writer and musician. His first novel of fiction, Stray Dogs (Third Man Books 2023), was a Wales Book of the Year finalist. Born and living in South Wales, he spent two years as a teenager in Toronto, Canada. In the mid 1990s he was founding member of rock group 60ft Dolls, scoring a top 40 album and a number of hits. The group played with well-known bands like Oasis, Dinosaur Jr, and the S*x Pistols. As a songwriter and musician, he has worked for many high-profile artists including Dido, Duffy and McAlmont & Butler. As a writer, he was shortlisted for the New Welsh Review Rheidol Prize.
