We are absolutely thrilled to have an event with Elly Griffths this year, especially as the setting for her wonderful crime novel is rather close to home! Ruth Galloway is called in to supervise the opening of a medieval coffin in the King’s Lynn museum. However she soon finds her role to be more than [...]
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Che Golden
Friday 20th January 2012 – 8.00pm
“There was someone at her window all right, someone with a long white hand…and yellow pointed fingers” Join us for an evening with Che Golden to celebrate the launch of her debut novel The Feral Child, the first of what promises to be an exciting new trilogy. Inspired by childhood memories and Celtic myth, Golden [...]
An evening with the Perfect Man
Friday 20th January 2012 – 7.30pm
Victorian strongman, huge cultural figure and music-hall sensation in late Victorian London, the forgotten figure Eugene Sandow is resurrected again by David Waller. From the author of the very colourful The Magnificent Mrs Tennant comes another superb biography. Written with humour and sensitivity, this is a fascinating examination of a figure lost from public memory.
Ben Kane
Thursday 19th January 2012 – 8.00pm
In historical terms we know very little about Spartacus the man – partly because most contemporary Roman historians were keen to obliterate his memory and prevent him from attaining mythic status. This of course is grist to the novelist’s mill. Ben Kane’s brilliant novel begins in the Thracian village to which Spartacus has returned, after [...]
The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
Monday 9th January 2012 – 7.30pm
A sensational debut by the 26 year old Obreht, last year’s Orange Prize winner, weaves strands of magical fable into its moving depiction of family relationships against a background of war in the Balkans.
Pieminister – Jon Simon and Tristan Hogg
Wednesday 14th December 2011 – 8.00pm
In 2002 Tristan Hogg and Jon Simon hatched a plan – to create the most delicious and wholesome pie the British public had ever tasted. With Tristan’s formal chef training and Jon’s experience of running successful London pubs (and the added bonus of being brothers-in-law!) they set about perfecting the first range of pies from [...]
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Tuesday 13th December 2011 – 6.30pm
“Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it.”
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Monday 12th December 2011 – 7.30pm
Charting the physical and emotional journey of its lonely heroine in intensely poetic language, Villette is sometimes cited as the greatest Brontë novel.
Giorgio Locatelli
Wednesday 7th December 2011 – 8.00pm
We are delighted to welcome Giorgio to the Bookshop for a very special evening of talk and tastings, as part of our exciting December cookery season. Sure to be a sell-out event, make sure you call in – or phone – to secure your ticket for a very delicious event indeed. Giorgio Locatelli is widely [...]
Selected Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Monday 5th December 2011 – 6.30pm
A festive look at fairy tales and folklore for the last reading group of the year. This book combines some very well known tales from the brothers Grimm with some that will be less familiar. The version of Cinderella (Ashypet) is not for the faint hearted.