Events: An Audience with David Nicholls
Picture credit: Hal Shinnie
If you’re a fan of One Day and Us, there are still tickets available for An Audience with David Nicholls.
In association with Eastleigh Library 25th Anniversary events, David Nicholls will be at The Point on Saturday 24th January 2015.
He will be talking about screenwriting and his novels, including One Day and his latest bestseller and Booker shortlisted novel, Us. David will also be available for a book signing after his talk which will then be followed by a screening of One Day (12A.)
The event starts at 3pm and tickets are still available for £8. One Day will be shown at 4.30pm.
For more information or to book tickets, visit The Point’s website: http://thepointeastleigh.co.uk
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Events: Chawton House Library’s Georgian Christmas
Find out how the people of Jane Austen’s time celebrated Christmas at Chawton House Library this December.
Explore the ‘great house,’ she loved as well as seeing it fully dressed for Christmas.
This event is happening on 13th December 2014 at Chawton House Library near Alton in Hampshire.
It’s an open house between 10am and 3pm. As well as cooking up gourmet christmas treats from the Knight family cookbook, there will also be talks from the food historian, Dr Anne Gray (who featured on the Great British Bake Off,) who will be giving talks on the traditional Georgian christmas dinner – ‘Plumb, Porridge and Pickle for Brawn.’
Tickets are £8 for adults and £4 for children (under fives go free.) Continue reading
by Events: Write By The Shore
Being held at the Cockenzie House and Gardens, the Write by the Shore Festival is taking place next weekend (1st and 2nd November 2014.)
Over the two days, there will be a variety of events including sessions like, Meeting the authors, historical authors and there is also a session for Crime fiction authors.
There will also be events looking at children’s books and there is also an open mic session for local authors so plenty going on for both writer and reader alike.
Authors appearing over the weekend include Sara Sheridan, Ed James and Michael Pederson.
Tickets are £35 for the weekend, £20 for a day ticket or £10 per session.
For more information on the programme and tickets, click here.
We had a chat with Sara Sheridan, one of the authors attending Write by the Shore.
Hi Sara, thank you for joining us. How important are events like Write By The Shore? Are they both for writers and readers?
I think one of the wonderful things about the growth of book festivals all over the UK is that it lets readers meet writers and vice versa. I find that fascinating – you never can tell what the audience are going to ask, come question time… It’s also great that books are made more accessible by virtue of these kinds of festivals. I’m a big supporter.
by Events: Peter F Hamilton
Peter F Hamilton will be at Foyles on 8th October to celebrate the upcoming release of his new book, The Abyss Beyond Dreams (which is a prequel to his popular Void trilogy.)
The event is taking place on Wednesday 8th October 2014.
It starts at 7pm and is being held at Foyles on Charing Cross Road in London (it’s being held in the auditorium on Level Six.)
Since the publication of his first novel, Mindstar Rising, Hamilton’s grand space opera visions have enthralled readers worldwide, with over two million copies of his books now sold.
Tickets are £5, and this includes a glass of wine.
To find out more or to book tickets, visit Foyles website: http://www.foyles.co.uk
Events: David Mitchell
Waterstones Piccadilly are holding an evening with David Mitchell.
The author of ‘Cloud Atlas’ will be in conversation with Sam Leith. They will be discussing David’s book, The Bone Clocks which has been longlisted for the Booker Prize.
The event is being held on Monday, 10 November 2014 at the Waterstones in Piccadilly in London. The evening begins at 6:30PM.
Tickets are £8 and it’s £6 for Waterstones Loyalty Cardholders
Tickets are available in store or you can get them online at Waterstones.com/tickets
For further details, call 0207 8512400.
For more information on David Mitchell, visit his website: www.davidmitchellbooks.com/
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