An evening with Rizzle Kicks' Jordan Stephens

We're so pleased to invite writer, performer, and chart-topping artist Jordan Stephens to the bookshop this autumn, in celebration of his urgent, and brilliantly conjured new memoir Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak & Dogs.

Someone once asked me how I'd want to be remembered. I said, 'As the boy who grew.'

Diagnosed twice with ADHD, Jordan Stephens found his teens and twenties a whirl of career success and nurturing friendships but also a brutal pattern of self-harm, hedonism, destructive coping mechanisms and heartbreak. When he tried to live up to his own damaged expectations and his world exploded, he stepped away from his previous existence completely and allowed himself to explore the pain he'd repressed his entire life.

Unsparingly digging into the fear, tenderness and trauma he carried in his body and mind, and the confusing assumptions of what a young man should be, Jordan Stephens discovers what it means to be a modern man, why we should all open ourselves up to life, and how the price we pay for love in all its forms is worth it.

'Brutally honest as well as poetic' DOLLY ALDERTON

'Essential reading for men of all ages' CALEB FEMI