Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award for her best-selling Eve Green, Fletcher’s latest, Corrag, is the story of a girl caught up in the 1692 Massacre at Glencoe, then sentenced to death for witchcraft and murder. This is a beautiful novel which explores both the unrest of the period as well as the power [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Lee Child
Tuesday 30th March 2010 – 8.00pm
61 Hours is Jack Reacher’s latest adventure. He’s travelling light, without even a coat as protection from the elements, but Reacher is ready for the task in hand…
Lunch with Gervase Phinn
Tuesday 30th March 2010 – 12.30pm
Join the hilariously funny Gervase Phinn for lunch. Road to the Dales is a poignant and comic account of growing up in Yorkshire during the ’50s
Alex Butterworth
Monday 29th March 2010 – 8.00pm
The World That Never Was is a masterful exploration of the strange twists and turns of history; a true story of dreamers, schemers, anarchists and secret agents of the late nineteenth century.
Adrian Tinniswood
Thursday 25th March 2010 – 8.00pm
In Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in 17th-century Mediterranean, Adrian Tinniswood brings to life the fascinating world of the European renegades and Islamic sea-rovers who stalked the Mediterranean throughout the seventeenth century. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, such as the private letters of pirates and their victims, furious royal proclamations and [...]
John Simpson
Tuesday 23rd March 2010 – 7.30pm
A living legend amongst news correspondents, John Simpson returns to Ely with his authoritative and outspoken book Unreliable Sources. From the young Churchill’s Boer War dispatches, to the reportage of the Iraq war, Simpson looks back at the extraordinary history of his profession and the many colourful figures involved in it. More controversially, he looks [...]
Philip Gooden
Thursday 18th March 2010 – 8.00pm
Gooden’s first historical book tracks the English language from the source to the present day. It takes you through the significant social and cultural transformations that have shaped its development, written eloquently by a practised and knowledgable author. Join us for an evening of linguistic discovery with this prestigious local author.
Simon Carnell
Thursday 18th March 2010 – 7.30pm
We are delighted to welcome Simon Carnell to Ely for a seasonal celebration of the creature once reckoned to be “the most lascivious and the most melancholy of animals”. Hare is an especially fascinating addition to Reaktion Books’ highly praised Animal series, tracing the hare’s presence in art, literature, folklore and religious ritual, whilst also [...]
John Simpson
Tuesday 16th March 2010 – 8.00pm
We are delighted to welcome back to Bath award winning journalist and bestselling author John Simpson to discuss his new book Unreliable Sources. In his latest work, Simpson explores the nature and history of the free press in Britain. As one of the leading contemporary journalists, with unrivalled experience in the field, Simpson is ideally [...]
Robin Robertson
Thursday 11th March 2010 – 8.00pm
Part of the Topping & Company Year of Picador Celebrated and award-winning poet Robin Robertson comes to Bath for the publication of his fourth collection of poetry, The Wrecking Light.