An Evening with Joanna Miller

Joanna Miller will be discussing her debut novel, 'The Eights,' with Eleanor at the Maldon United Reformed Church. ** Venue change! ** Due to the popularity of this event, we'll now be holding Joanna's discussion at the Maldon United Reformed Church. The timings will still be the same (event starts at 7pm, doors open 6:45pm) Please note the nearest car parks are Butt Lane car park and White Horse Lane car park. Ticket holders have been informed, but please get in touch if you haven't already heard from us! Come along to a special evening with author Joanna Miller on Thursday 24th September! Joanna will be discussing her new novel, ‘The Eights,’ with our very own bookseller Eleanor, and signing books afterwards. Tickets can be purchased online or in store. If you’d like a signed copy of Joanna’s book but can’t attend, do get in touch at [email protected] About The Eights... Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1,000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight and find themselves thrust into an unlikely, life-affirming friendship. They have come here from all walks of life, but Dora, Beatrice, Otto and Marianne all long to move on from the Great War, whose ghosts, grief, and secrets still feel very real indeed. But Oxford is a place caught between tradition and change, where centuries of misogyny and exclusion clash with the promise of new freedoms. And as the group navigate this tumultuous moment in time under the city’s dreaming spires, their friendship will become more important than ever. The Eights is a captivating debut novel about sisterhood, self-determination, courage, and what it means to come of age in a world that is forever changed. About Joanna Miller... Joanna studied English at Exeter College, Oxford and later returned to complete a PGCE in Secondary English at The Department of Educational Studies. After ten years as a teacher and literacy adviser, she set up an award-winning poetry gift business with celebrity clients. Joanna's rhyming verse has been filmed twice by the BBC and in 2015 she won The Poetry Prize, run by Bloomsbury Publishing and the National Literacy Trust. In 2021, Joanna graduated from the Faber Academy, after which she was accepted on the Escalator Talent Development Scheme at The National Centre for Writing. She has recently returned to Oxford to study part-time for a diploma in creative writing. Joanna lives in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire with her husband and their three teenage children.