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42, The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams (Unbound 2023) is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book which trawls through the personal papers, drafts, scripts, notebooks and diaries of the much-missed humorous author (and later tech guru) Douglas Adams, who died aged just 49, in 2001. A famous procrastinator, Adams regularly berated himself within the body […]
Joanne Burn discusses her new book, The Bone Hunters which is set in Lyme Regis, Dorset, with Jo Durrant. This event will be shown on Zoom.
In The Long Arc, Robin Walter reads a collection of nature and environmental-themed poems accompanied by music and imagery. ‘The Long Arc’ consists of 3 pieces of writing on environmental themes, accompanied by recorded music and visual images. ‘Arbor Vitae’ is a poetic version of Robin's book 'Living With Trees', with images by Juliet Wimhurst. […]
Elizabeth will talk about how she came to write Becoming Liz Taylor, the inspiration behind the story, the research she undertook, and why she chose to set it in Weston-super-Mare. She will explore the theme of loss in the novel, and the connection between grief, memory and stories. BECOMING LIZ TAYLOR tells the story of Val, […]
Set in the Somerset Levels, The House of Broken Bricks is Fiona William's debut novel. Fiona will be discussing the inspiration for the book and her writing with Jenny Devitt. Fiona Williams holds a BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences from the University of Westminster and an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing from Bath Spa […]
Aged 60 and having lived with Parkinson’s disease for over 10 years, Guy Deacon CBE set out for one last adventure, to drive solo from his home in the UK to South Africa. This incredible journey, crossing Europe and the full length of Africa, would take the former army officer and father of two over […]
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