Part of the Topping & Company Year of Picador Parisians is an entertaining collection of the stories of the many ordinary and extraordinary inhabitants of Paris, told with Graham Robb’s customary attention to detail.
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Joanne Harris
Thursday 29th April 2010 – 7.30pm
With novels such as Chocolat and Gentlemen and Players, Joanne Harris has proved herself a spellbinding storyteller who never repeats herself. Her latest book blueeyedboy is a gripping contemporary thriller, as exciting and unexpected as anything she has written. Telling an intricate tale of murder and manipulation with all the zest and flair for which [...]
Sam Willetts
Tuesday 27th April 2010 – 8.00pm
With New Light for the Old Dark, Sam Willets proves himself a powerfully original voice in contemporary British poetry. Join Sam as he reads and discusses a remarkable debut characterized throughout by a powerful fusion of technical flair, elegancy of expression and candour. A spiritual autobiography for a secular era, New Light for the Old [...]
Rescheduled – Chloë Schama
Monday 26th April 2010 – 8.00pm
Chloë Schama’s biography of Theresa Yelverton explores the struggle of an ordinary woman in her desperate attempt to release herself from her bigamist husband in Victorian England. Catapulted into fame, Yelverton experienced the unsettling issues of being a single woman in Victorian society and, having had her fortune consumed by her former husband, supported herself [...]
Graham Robb
Monday 26th April 2010 – 7.30pm
With his celebrated biographies of Balzac, Rimbaud and Victor Hugo, not to mention his outstanding travelogue, The Discovery of France, Graham Robb has been a tireless champion of French history and culture. He joins us to introduce his sparkling new book , Parisians, which recounts the astonishing history of the French capitol through the lives [...]
Cancelled – Sue Shephard
Friday 23rd April 2010 – 8.00pm
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled, due to unforeseen circumstances. We will contact all those who have booked tickets shortly.
Malcolm Gaskill
Wednesday 21st April 2010 – 7.30pm
From Macbeth to Harry Potter, witchcraft has held a powerful grip on the human imagination. Author of the thrilling historical study Witchfinder, and living on as he does on the witchfinders’ route in the Isle of Ely, Malcolm Gaskill is one of the greatest academic authorities on the subject. In Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction [...]
Richard Mabey
Thursday 15th April 2010 – 7.30pm
For almost half a century, Richard Mabey has written about the British countryside with an inimitable mixture of poetic tenderness and scientific authority. Author of such classics as Nature Cure, and Food for Free, he is justly regarded as on of Britain’s greatest living naturalists, with a magical gift for sharing his enthusiasms and perceptions. [...]
Rose Tremain
Wednesday 14th April 2010 – 7.30pm
We are delighted to welcome back to Ely the distinguished winner of both the Whitbread and Orange prizes. In the past, Rose Tremain’s novels have had settings as diverse as 16th Century Denmark and 19th Century New Zealand. Now, in Trespass, she evokes the haunted heartland of contemporary France in a typically vivid and involving [...]
A. C. Grayling
Monday 12th April 2010 – 8.00pm
Thinking of Answers is a collection of essays by one of our leading philosophers. Don’t miss an exciting event.