Join us for an evening in conversation with author Anna Maconochie celebrating the release of her collection of short stories, Diamond Life.

For lovers of Fleabag and Industry (yep and yep!) Diamond Life is a short story collection about the messy lives of London creatives. The ambitions, the rivalries, the bad romantic decisions, the even worse flatmates. Highly relatable to London based millenials, Anna Maconochie writes about very relatable experiences with a lot of wit and very little mercy.

The evening will comprise of a Q&A with the author and a signing, all over apertivo on the canal in Hackney Wick.

"Witty, shrewd, imaginative, intimate, poignant." Adam Foulds

Anna Maconochie was born and raised in London, where she still lives. After a decade in the film industry and the BBC she began writing short stories that touched on these settings as well as her home city. Her first stories appeared in the Erotic Review and then in several other print and online magazines, including the Dublin Review, the London Magazine and the Bitter Oleander. She has also had a story in Desire: 100 of Literature’s Sexiest Stories, compiled by Mariella Frostrup. In 2023 she received a Pushcart Prize nomination for her story "Victor & Cleo" in the Concho River Review. Her first published short story collection was Only the Visible Can Vanish, with Cultured Llama Publishing. Diamond Life is her second book.

Ticket options:

Standard ticket: Book + Ticket £15

Standard ticket with drink: Book + Ticket + Aperol spritz £25

Flexible ticket: Ticket only £5 (redeemable against book purchase)

Contact the host of Fish Island Books presents Diamond Life an evening with author Anna Maconochie