Big Man Event ticket

Join us for an evening in conversation with Dean Atta to talk about his book Big Man!

When: 10/9/26 18:30 start (doors 18:15)

Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL

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There will be books available to buy at the event or you can preorder here. 

Book - £12.99 (£2 off the ticket price if you preorder the book)

There is an option to pay what you can as we would like to keep this event accessible for all. There is a limited number of PWYC tickets so please only use it if you need to.

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About the book:

BIG MAN follows the life of Big, a middle-aged, Black British gay man who lives a gentle life with his boyfriend, Little, in their home in East London. Big and Little enjoy evenings out and group holidays with friends, as much as practising yoga together at home, and running side by side along the Hackney canals. 

Big came of age in the club scene under the watchful eye of Mother, an African American trans woman who made a home and a name for herself in London, her house a refuge for wayward queer youth like Big. When he finds out Mother is releasing a memoir, the two reconnect after decades of distance, and Big finds himself having to confront a long-repressed assault that opens old – and new – wounds. 

A tender, daring novel full of gentle humour, BIG MAN explores themes of identity, aging, sex, family, and trauma, turning a lens on what it means to age as a queer person, while being a double-edged love letter to the people and places that make us. 

About the author:

Dean Atta is a BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and Stonewall Book Award-winning author from London. Best known for his young adult novel in verse, The Black Flamingo, and the stop-motion animation, Two Black Boys in Paradise, his heartfelt storytelling draws on his Greek Cypriot and Jamaican heritage as well as his queer identity.
Dean is a patron of LGBT+ History Month and Chair of the Poetry and Spoken Word Group of the Society of Authors.
Dean has published three young adult novels in verse, two poetry collections, two picture books, and a memoir. His debut adult novel, Big Man, will be published by Cipher Press in September 2026.

Jade E Bradford is an award-winning writer and communications professional based in Barry, South Wales. Holding an MA in creative writing, she is currently undertaking a PhD exploring how fiction can be used to make social change.

Her writing has appeared in Wasafiri, Folding Rock, Breadfruit Magazine, WritersMosaic, The Welsh Agenda and Rowayat among other print and digital platforms. Her short story, 'Nine Night' was longlisted for the 2025 4th Estate and Guardian 4thWrite Prize, while 'Drifting' won the 2024 Breadfruit Magazine Prize. Her Young Adult short story 'An Embarrassment of Janets' was highly commended in the 2023 Faber FAB Prize for Children’s Literature.

Jade is an alumnus of Literature Wales Representing Wales (2023/24), Black British Book Festival Writers on the Rise (2024), and Hay Festival’s Writers at Work (2025). 

Accessibility:

We ask in our confirmation email if you have any access needs, we will do everything we can to accommodate them. If you would like to reach out before booking you can email us lily@bookspacecardiff.co.uk or use our contact form.

We are wheelchair accessible. We have a temporary ramp we can put out to get in over the small step and once inside the shop floor is even. If you want to find out more about how to get here, check out our about page.

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