Gosia Buzzanca: There She Goes, My Beautiful World
November 6 - 7:30 pm
Spend an evening exploring the meaning of ‘home’ with local author Gosia Buzzanca. Gosia will be in conversation with fellow author and communications professional Jade E. Bradford, about her stunning new memoir, There She Goes, My Beautiful World.
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What does ‘home’ mean? Is it where you come from, or something you must build for yourself, brick by brick, from the ruins and treasures of everything that came before?
In this compelling memoir, Gosia Buzzanca tells the story of leaving Poland at nineteen in search of a bigger life, hoping to leave the traumas of her teenage years behind. After studying in England, she finds a rich new tapestry of experience awaiting her in Wales – love, literature, motherhood, and the challenge of making peace with the past so that this new life by the sea can finally feel like home.
Written with the fearless honesty of a poet, this is a story for anyone who has ever felt lost or incomplete, and who yearns to find the place where they truly belong.
Gosia Buzzanca was born in Poznań, Poland and moved to the UK in 2008. She earned a Creative Writing MA with distinction and was the recipient of the W&A Working-Class Writers’ Prize (2022) before being selected for the Hay Festival Writers at Work programme in 2025. Her writing has been praised as “warm and vibrant”, “poetic and electrifying”, and “fearlessly tender”. She lives in Barry, South Wales, where she is working on her first novel.
Jade E. Bradford is an author and communications and engagement professional based in South Wales. Her short fiction, often concerned with place and belonging, has been published in Wasafiri, Breadfruit Magazine, and Rowayat. Her work has been longlisted for the 2025 4th Estate and Guardian 4thWrite Prize, won the 2024 Breadfruit Magazine Prize, and was highly commended in the 2023 Faber FAB Prize for Children’s Literature. She has been selected for the Literature Wales Representing Wales cohort (2023/24), Black British Book Festival Writers on the Rise (2024), and Hay Festival Writers at Work (2025).
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Thursday 6 November | 7.30 pm
Griffin Books, 9A Windsor Road, Penarth, CF64 1JB*
Tickets: £20.00 including a SIGNED hardback copy of There She Goes, My Beautiful World (RRP £16.99)* / £8.00 Event Only / £5.00 Student Ticket / £5.00 Inclusive Ticket
*IMPORTANT: Please be aware that the toilet at Griffin Books can only be accessed via three steps and so is not accessible for wheelchair users or people with mobility issues. Please contact us on info@griffinbooks.co.uk if this would prohibit you from attending.
*Any book not collected at the event will be held in Griffin Books for three months after the date of the event.
