Ely Events and Reading Groups
In this atmospheric medieval city, just over an hour from London by train, author events range from reading groups and intimate events in the bookshop to the drama of performances under the world-renowned Octagon of Ely Cathedral. We hold events all year round, but in the autumn there is a special focus on the Ely Literary Festival.
Queer Reading Group - Call me by your name
Monday 23rd February, 7pm
During a restless summer on the Italian Riviera, a powerful romance blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father's house guest, Oliver. Unrelenting currents of obsession and …
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Sophie Hannah
Wednesday 25th February, 7pm
What if the only way to prevent a murder is by confessing to it?Jemma Stelling has confessed to a murder - one she can't have committed. …
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Philip Parker
Thursday 26th February, 7pm
Britain is a land steeped in legend. From the Scottish Islands to the valleys of Wales, or the coves and inlets of Cornwall, scarcely a hillock, …
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Thant Myint-U
Monday 2nd March, 7pm
IN THE EARLY 1960S, a peaceful world seemed possible. The still young United Nations was regarded as humankind's best hope for ending war. African and Asian …
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Reading Group - Poems
Tuesday 10th March, 7.30pm
From elegant lyrics to forceful political statements, humorous and sardonic squibs to luminous recollections of childhood, celebrations of friendship to impassioned evocations of the natural world …
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Reading Group - Remarkably Bright Creatures
Tuesday 10th March, 7.30pm
After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on …
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Francis Spufford
Thursday 12th March, 7pm
It's the summer of 1939. London is on the brink of catastrophic war. Iris Hawkins, an ambitious young woman in the stuffy world of City finance, …
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Jill Dawson
Tuesday 17th March, 7pm
"Pixie". I like it. "Pixie Pamela". It's a good name for me: sometimes tiny and invisible. Other times bouncing up to the ceiling to look down …
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Queer Reading Group - Heated Rivalry
Tuesday 24th March, 7pm
Nothing interferes with pro hockey star Shane Hollander's game.Now that he's captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he won't let anything jeopardize that-definitely not the sexy rival …
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Antonia Senior
Thursday 9th April, 7pm
STALIN'S APOSTLES is a radical new look at the way five people allowed their obsession with Communist ideology to overshadow any sense of morality or decency …
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Reading Group - The Trumpet Major
Tuesday 14th April, 7.30pm
Hardy's only historical novel, The Trumpet Major is a shrewd and bittersweet, tale of a dignified and intelligent young woman's pursuit by three contrasting men, set …
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Christopher de Hamel
Wednesday 15th April, 7pm
A brilliant memoir from the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable ManuscriptsChristopher de Hamel is one of the world's best-known scholars and writers on illuminated manuscripts. …
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Mary Beard
Friday 17th April, 7.30pm
What's exciting about a piece of bread 4,000 years old? Or some pots of paint abandoned in the eruption at Pompeii? Why should we be bothered …
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Tim Parks
Friday 24th April, 7pm
We're delighted welcome Tim Parks for Across Sicily with the Thousand. Tim is a friend of the bookshop and an icon of travel writing. We hope …
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Andrey Kurkov
Wednesday 29th April, 7pm
Fresh from case of the stolen heart, one that shattered his belief in the regime he works for, Samson Kolechko is confronted with a mystery that …
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Jeremy Vine
Tuesday 5th May, 7pm
Sidmouth is gearing up for summer - but murder is all year round...When a doctor is found dead in the woods, shot through the heart with …
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Simon Barnes
Wednesday 6th May, 7pm
A unique and all-encompassing exploration of the wonders of flight and the way different species have evolved different solutions to the problem of defying gravity - …
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Reading Group - Fictions & The Invention
Tuesday 12th May, 7.30pm
Creating awe-inspiring dream-like worlds of puzzlement and mystery within a tiny space, the short fictions of Borges are amongst the most original and intriguing writings of …
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Robert Macfarlane
Tuesday 19th May, 7pm
From the creators of the internationally bestselling, award-winning, multi-adapted phenomenon The Lost Words: a dazzling celebration of birdlife in Britain, re-imagining the classic field guide for …
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