Serenity Booksellers are delighted to be welcoming local author Adam Farrer to Romiley to help celebrate the release of Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures - his hilariously funny and incredibly moving new essay collection that explores and challenges the idea of masculinity. Adam will be in conversation with Chris McDonald.

Tickets are £5.00 each or £16.99 including a copy of Broken Biscuits. Light refreshments are included in the ticket price.

Event starts at 6:30pm (doors at 6pm)

About the book:

When it comes to the challenge of being a man, Adam Farrer always seems to find a way to fall short…

Broken Biscuits vividly recounts Adam's struggles to live up to masculine expectations, real or imagined. From the calamity of his first serious relationship to an obsession with Prince that sees everyone questioning his sexuality, and from the repercussions of his adult circumcision to his doubts about his ability to survive the apocalypse, this candid and personal collection of essays is astonishingly far-reaching and riotously funny.

Holding up a mirror to Adam's own body image, his relationship with his family, his sense of self-worth and the mortifying experience of arriving at a teenage party wearing strawberry-patterned short shorts, this book is about growing up and trying to define yourself as a man but somehow always missing the mark.

"I love everything about these essays, from Adam's willingness to be open about life, love, family and his nether regions, to his innate ability as a storyteller. Broken Biscuits made me laugh out loud and then properly cry in the space of a few paragraphs." Jennie Godfrey (The List of Suspicious Things)

"Writing with such intimacy and ease, Farrer has crafted a brilliant collection of essays, by turns tender, disarmingly honest and achingly funny. In Broken Biscuits' exploration of contemporary masculinity, he is undoubtedly a singular voice." Tawseef Khan (Determination)

About the author:

Adam Farrer is a writer, a lecturer and the editor of the creative nonfiction journal The Real Story. He has been a photo lab technician, an illustrator, a ceramicist, a musician, a music journalist and currently works at the University of Salford, where he is the Writer in Residence for Peel Park. His first book, Cold Fish Soup, won the Northbound Book Award.