There She Goes My Beautiful World ticket

Join us for an evening in conversation with Gosia Buzzanca, hosted by Sophie Calon, to celebrate her new book There She Goes, My Beautiful World!

When: 1/11/25 18:30 start (doors 18:15)

Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL

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Book - £16.99

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About the book:

What does ‘home’ mean? Is it where you come from, or is it somewhere that you have to create for yourself, building brick by brick on the ruins and treasures of everything that has gone before? 

In this compelling memoir, Gosia Buzzanca tells the story of a young woman who leaves Poland at the age of nineteen in search of a bigger life, hoping to leave the traumas of her teenage years behind her. After studying in England, she finds a rich new tapestry of experience awaiting her in Wales, with intertwined threads of love and literature, hope and despair. Motherhood brings new joys, but the pain of the past must be faced before this new life by the seaside can truly feel like home.  

With the fearless honesty of a poet, Gosia offers her account of an extraordinary ordinary life where every flavour is tasted, every moment lived to its fullest. This story of a lifelong quest for home will call to anyone who has ever felt lost or incomplete, and who yearns to find a place where they belong. 

About the author:

Gosia Buzzanca was born in Poznań, Poland. She began publishing short stories in 2002, before moving to the UK in 2008 and earning a Creative Writing MA with distinction. In 2022, she was the recipient of the W&A Working-Class Writers’ Prize and in 2025 she was selected for Hay Festival Writers at Work programme. There She Goes, My Beautiful World, a memoir set between Poland and Wales is her first book. She now lives in Barry, South Wales and is working on her first novel.

About the interviewer:

Sophie Calon is the author of Long Going, a memoir of her dad who drank. She was born and raised in Cardiff. State-educated, Sophie studied Classics at Oxford University then trained as a journalist in her hometown. Her writing has been published in The Guardian, The TLS, Literary Review, and the anthology Tales of Two Londons. Her story 'Cantlos' was runner-up for the 2021 Wild Writing Prize and published by Short Fiction. Sophie lives with her husband, daughter, cats, and cows on a hilltop near Hay-on-Wye, where they are returning nature to their surroundings.

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