Upcoming talks, lectures and writing events
April 2019
In Aprils 'Shed Talk' meet Class Act who are four seasoned jazz musicians who will be discussing the basic elements of jazz, while playing examples from their own repertoire
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Opening our Big Book Weekend in conjunction with Yellow Lighted Book Shop we welcome author Sophie Ratcliffe with her latest book "The Lost Properties of Love" and hear how this part memoir, part imagined history helped her through a difficult time in her life
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Big Book Weekend. Join Rachel Hazell discussing twenty five years of making books and taking people on creative journeys
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Big Book Weekend. Professor Debby Thacker discusses classics and more recent publications and how they can support or challenge our ideas of the different roles of men and women
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Big Book Weekend. Welcome to the world of the midwife - learn more about the highs and the lows and being there at some of the most challenging, empowering and defining moments of our lives
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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 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. Artificial Intelligence promises a lot but delivers rather less - join Professor Dave Cliff as he discusses why it might not be such a good idea to place so much store in computing to improve our lives
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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.
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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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