Written by one of the world’s legendary advertising men, Hegarty on Advertising contains over four decades’ worth of wisdom from the man behind hugely influential campaigns for brands such as Levi Strauss, Audi, Boddingtons and Unilever. Packed with anecdotes and masses of straight-down-the-line stories about the agencies in which John Hegarty has worked and the [...]
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Mary Nichols
Wednesday 21st March 2012 – 7.30pm
Mary Nichols’ wonderful dramas, set against historical events, are always a real joy. Her latest novel, The Girl on the Beach, is a wonderful novel of love and loss in the wake of World War Two. Mary is such a warm and lively local author- it is an absolute pleasure to sit and listen to [...]
New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani
Wednesday 21st March 2012 – 6.30pm
New Finnish Grammar is an extraordinary novel. A study of memory and loss that is both beautifully written and deeply moving, the novel opens with the discovery of a wounded man on a quay in Trieste with nothing to identify him except a name tag that implies he is Finnish. A doctor resolves to teach [...]
Tamasin Day-Lewis
Saturday 17th March 2012 – 8.00pm
Join Tamasin Day-Lewis, whose latest book Food You Can’t Say No To continues to make the most of seasonal ingredients rather than spending extravagantly. From a warming salmon and scallop chowder to a Roquefort, celery and red onion pie, Food you Can’t Say No To celebrates the variety and possibility at the heart of good [...]
William Boyd
Thursday 15th March 2012 – 7.30pm
Waiting for Sunrise is the novel of this season. Engaging and full of suspense, this is a thrilling read! Vienna. 1913. Lysander Rief, whilst awaiting his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist, Dr. Bensimon, meets an extraordinary woman. There begins an extraordinary love affair plunging him into a dangerous theatre of wartime intelligence – a [...]
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamund Lehmann
Monday 5th March 2012 – 7.30pm
A wise and touching coming of age story, Lehmann’s graceful depiction of a sensitive teenager’s symbolic entry into adulthood on the evening of her first dance is justly regarded as a 1930s classic.
Wendy Cope
Friday 2nd March 2012 – 7.00pm
From a motorway service area to her ambivalent relationship with religion, Wendy Cope covers a wide range of experience in her new collection. Her mordant humour and formal ingenuity are in evidence, even as she remembers the wounds of a damaging childhood; and in poems about love and the inevitable problems of ageing she achieves [...]
Tom and Henry Herbert
Thursday 1st March 2012 – 8.00pm
The Fabulous Baker Brothers, Tom and Henry Herbert, are the fifth generation of master bakers behind the Hobbs House Bakery, based in Gloucestershire but supplying many local Bath bakeries. Tom, master baker, and Henry who runs the butchers next door will be at Topping and Company on 1st March to share their take on some [...]
Samantha Harvey
Tuesday 28th February 2012 – 8.00pm
Join us for an evening with Samantha Harvey, one of the most important new voices in British literary fiction right now. Her first novel, The Wilderness, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009, longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the 2009 AMI Literature [...]
Simon Callow
Friday 24th February 2012 – 8.00pm
One of Britain’s finest actors, Simon Callow will be the face of Dickens for the 2012 bicentennial year celebrations. In this entertaining biography he reveals an original genius, and offers a compelling insight into a life driven by performance. He will be at the Bookshop talking about both delving into Dickens and his own acclaimed career- [...]