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May 2019
Big Book Weekend. Join writer, author and poet Pie Corbett telling stories primarily for 7-11 year olds but all ages welcome
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Big Book Weekend. Best selling author Clare Mackintosh discusses her life in the Cotswolds as a mother, wife and villager
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Big Book Weekend. Follow Alex Woodcock through his journey becoming a stonemason, the transformative power of art and the importance of the handmade
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Big Book Weekend. Broadcaster, stand up comedian and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective.
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Big Book Weekend. Join Travelling Bookbinder Rachel Hazell for a two hour bookbinding workshop making books of your own, filled with found words. A concentrated session of designing and folding, composing and completing a unique series of stories
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Big Book Weekend. Join former director of the National Theatre Richard Eyre as he reads from his autobiography in verse
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Professor Robert Eaglestone - an expert in holocaust literature looks at how books such as All Among the Barley and After the Party affected our past and what they mean to us today - and why
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Big Book Weekend. Join Amy Sackville as she is interviewed about her latest book, described as a virtuoso portrait of Velázquez, and has her tarot read by the literary sensation that are Litwitchure
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Big Book Weekend. Join Time Team's archaeologist Francis Pryor discussing a lifetime's digging revealing the stories of people gone before us and how they lived
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Sometimes only a poem will do. For countless people, the poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice from William Sieghart's bestselling ‘Poetry Pharmacy’ have offered comfort, delight and inspiration; a space for reflection, and that precious realization - I'm not the only one who feels like this.
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Big Book Weekend. Join one of the UKs greatest Forager and Cook John Wright on a walk through the fields around Tetbury before returning to the Goods Shed to see it cooked and have an opportunity to taste the fruit of your labours.
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Big Book Weekend. Mandy is known to many in the area as one of the brilliant midwives at Stroud Hospital however she is also an accomplished novelist, and she will be introducing her first compelling book The German Midwife.
Find out moreBig Book Weekend. Join one of the UKs greatest Forager and Cook John Wright on a walk through the fields around Tetbury as he demonstrates the bounty on offer
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Big Book Weekend. The third book in her seasonal quartet about contemporary Britain, ‘Spring’ has been described as ‘the perfect novel’, and promises to delight both lovers of author Ali Smith’s work, and those that have yet to be enthralled.
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Big Book Weekend. Set in Suffolk in the 1930's Melissa Harrison's book "All Among the Barley" is deeply atmospheric and steeped in the rhythms and traditions of the English countryside
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The Big Book Weekend finishes with Mel Golding’s talking about ‘Little Darlings’, one of the most addictive and haunting debuts of 2019.
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