Emma Gannon + Glynnis MacNicol: Table for One

Join us for an event with Sunday Times bestselling author Emma Gannon, discussing her new book Table for One. Joining Emma in conversation is award-winning author Glynnis MacNicol. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

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Moving, memorable and a mirror for anyone who’s craving their own company, Table For One is a story about what it means to be happily alone, not lonely.

If in doubt, date yourself…

Willow has everything worked out.

*The steady partner

*The successful career

*The grown-up house

Until she doesn’t – and she’s cast adrift on the sea of heartbreak, grieving a future that’s barely begun.

With her life transformed beyond recognition, and her friends busy ‘moving forwards’, Willow has never felt more alone.

But she’s in good company.

And when inspiration arrives from an unlikely source, she rekindles the relationship she longs for – but has long neglected… The one with herself.

Photo credit: Paul Storrie

Emma Gannon is a Sunday Times bestselling author of eight books and creator of the popular Substack newsletter The Hyphen. Her debut novel Olive was long-listed for the Dublin Literary Award in 2022. For six years, she hosted the WEBBY-nominated careers podcast Ctrl, Alt, Delete, which has had over 15 million downloads to date, with guests such as Greta Gerwig and Ava DuVernay. She hosts sold-out creativity retreats around the world. In 2018, she was listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media. Her new novel, Table For One, will be published in September 2025 by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Glynnis MacNicol is the author of three books including I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure and No One Tells You This. She wrote, produced, and hosted WILDER: A Reckoning with the Legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder, for iHeart Media. She has contributed to numerous collections. She writes the weekly newsletter Good Decisions. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself was named to TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024.  No One Tells You This (S&S, 2018), was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by Esquire, the Financial Times, and the CBC, and was a 2019 New York Times 'Paperback Row' pick. WILDER was an official Tribeca Festival 2023 Selection.

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