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Time |
Venue |
Category |
Event |
Description |
Ticket |
| Saturday 7th Oct 2006 |
6.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
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Becky Measures |
No Big Deal. My breasts or my life - beating cancer before it happens. Peak FM radio presenter Becky Measures |
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| Wednesday 18th Oct 2006 |
12.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
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Indian Afternoon - East India Company and The Last Mughal - William Dalrymple and Nick Robins |
Travel writer and historian William Dalrymple unearths groundbreaking new material to create the first English account of the life of the last Emperor, and the first narrative of the Mutiny to contain large quantities of material from the Indian perspective. The Last Mughal rapidly changes our understanding of a pivotal moment in Indian and Imperial history. Nick Robins is the author of 'The Corporation that Changed the World' - how the East India company shaped the modern multinational. |
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| Friday 27th Oct 2006 |
7.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
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An Evening with Local Authors |
An Evening with Local Authors. Peak District Book of the Year announced. |
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| Saturday 28th Oct 2006 |
6.30 pm |
Chatsworth House |
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Literary Dinner at Chatsworth House with Franceso da Mosto |
With Franceso da Mosto, author and presenter of Francesco's Venice and Italy. Other speakers to be confimed. |
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| Sunday 29th Oct 2006 |
12 noon |
Country Bookshop |
The Great Outdoors |
Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden - Dangerous Book For Boys |
If ever there was a book to make you switch off your television set, 'The Dangerous Book For Boys' if it. This book is a celebration of the long summers of Conn and his brother Hal Iggulden's youth and a compendium of information so vital to men of all ages. |
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| Sunday 29th Oct 2006 |
1.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
The Great Outdoors |
Fred Pearce and Michael Norton |
Fred Pearce studied Geography at Cambridge University and has since reported on environment, science and development issues from 54 countries. He is a regular broadcaster on radio and TV, with interview credits from Today to Richard and Judy to the Open University. Michael Norton is the founder of the Directory of Social Change - the UK's leading agency providing information, training and support to voluntary organisations, the Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action (CIVA) and YouthBank UK. |
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| Sunday 29th Oct 2006 |
3 pm |
Country Bookshop |
The Great Outdoors |
George Band - Summit: 150 Years of the Alpine Club |
George Band (born 1929) is a British mountaineer. He was the youngest member of John Hunt's original team that conquered Everest in 1953. He went on to climb the lower but technically harder peak Kangchenjunga in 1955. In 2005, as a still active 76-year-old, Band made the trek to the south-west Base Camp of Kangchenjunga in Nepal. Ticket price of £6 includes £3 off price of book 'Summit'. |
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| Sunday 29th Oct 2006 |
4.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
The Great Outdoors |
Benedict Allen - Into The Abyss |
Benedict Allen has been exploring the lesser-known regions of the world since 1983, when a hazardous journey through the rainforest inspired his first book, Mad White Giant. His subsequent works include Into the Crocodile Nest, Hunting the Gugu and The Proving Grounds.
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| Sunday 29th Oct 2006 |
6 pm |
Country Bookshop |
The Great Outdoors |
Guy Grieve - Call of the Wild |
Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and up to his neck in debt. But he dreamed of escaping it all to live alone in one of the wildest, most remote places on earth - Alaska. And just when he'd given up hope, the dream came true. Suddenly Guy was thrown into one of the harshest environments in the world, miles from the nearest human being and armed with only the most basic equipment. |
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| Sunday 29th Oct 2006 |
7.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
The Great Outdoors |
Holding On - Jo and Rob Gambi |
In 2005 Rob and Jo Gambi became the first married couple to climb the 'seven summits' and ski to the north and south poles and Jo entered the Guinness world records with the fastest female ascent of the 'seven summits'. Jo is also the only English woman alive to have climbed Everest by the North Ridge. Their story is even more remarkable given that Rob has twice suffered from serious bouts of cancer - and once came very close to death stranded high in the Himalayas. |
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POSTPONED to Wednesday 20th December
| 7.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
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George Galloway MP on Cuba and Fidel Castro |
In the year that Fidel Castro turns eighty, George Galloway takes a fresh look at his life from childhood and his extraordinary, charismatic leadership of Cuba over 47 years. |
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| Wednesday 1st Nov 2006 |
11 am |
Country Bookshop |
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GP Taylor |
A former police officer, G. P. Taylor is a vicar and writer. He lives in Yorkshire. Author of the Shadowmancer series. |
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| Thursday 2nd Nov 2006 |
7.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
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The Blunkett Tapes - David Blunkett MP |
The Blunkett Tapes are a rigorously honest self-portrait as well as an astonishingly cogent and intimate insight into New Labour's years in power, the personalities, the triumphs and the debates. |
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| Friday 3rd Nov 2006 |
6.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
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Spanish Evening - Peter Kerr and Chris Stewart |
Spanish Evening with Peter Kerr and Chris Stewart plus sangria, tapas, Spanish guitar. Peter Kerr and his family lived in Mallorca, where they bought a run-down orange farm and hurled themselves wholeheartedly into trying to make a living from a type of agriculture they knew absolutely nothing about! At age 17 Chris retired as the drummer of Genesis and launched a career as a sheep shearer and travel writer. He has no regrets about this. Had he become a big-time rock star he might never have moved with his wife Ana to a remote mountain farm in Andalucia. |
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| Saturday 4th Nov 2006 |
10 am |
Country Bookshop |
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Chris Stewart |
When Chris arrived in the Alpujarras, fifteen years ago, he could never have imagined the locals would invite him to join an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society, or that his daughter Chloe would be teaching him about teenage Spanish social life; nor that he would be spending time shepherding Bostonian art trustees around Seville, or working in an immigrants advice centre in Granada, spurred into action by the arrival of four young Moroccan boat people at El Valero |
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| Saturday 4th Nov 2006 |
12 noon |
Hassop Hall |
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Literary Lunch at Hassop Hall with Joan Bakewell and Stephen D. Smith |
With Joan Bakewell and Stephen D. Smith. |
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| Sunday 5th Nov 2006 |
1.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
Sustainable Living and Country Matters |
Jacqueline Moffat and Craig Taylor |
In 1982 Jackie Moffat and her family upped sticks from London and went North, to Cumbria. Their destination was the Eden Valley, and a small stock-rearing and dairy farm called Rowfoot, and there they have spent the past twenty years getting to grips with the practice of running a working farm, keeping sheep, cattle, pigs and horses. The author has written a regular column for the Cumbria and Lake District Life magazine and books including 'The Funny Farm'. Ronald Blythe's 1969 book 'Akenfield' - a moving portrait of English country life told in the voices of the farmers and villagers themselves - is a modern classic. A bestseller upon publication, it has been translated into more than twenty languages around the world. In 2004, writer and reporter Craig Taylor returned to the village in Suffolk on which 'Akenfield' was based. Over the course of several months, he sought out locals who had appeared in the original book to see how their lives has changed, he met newcomers to discuss their own views, and he interviewed Ronald Blythe himself, now in his eighties. |
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| Sunday 5th Nov 2006 |
3 pm |
Country Bookshop |
Sustainable Living and Country Matters |
Tom Petherick and Mark Cocker
This event will be chaired by Tim Birkhead |
Tom Petherick is an acclaimed author and broadcaster and led the gardening team that undertook the stunning restoration of the lost Gardens of Heligan. He was lured back to Heligan to help the horticultural team and is now through his journalism and book writing helping to promote the garden. Mark Cocker is the author of seven works of non-fiction including the universally praised Birds Britannica. He also writes regularly for the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement. He will be talking about his new book A Tiger in the Sand, a collection of his wildlife writings over the last twenty years. Tim Birkhead is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Sheffield. |
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| Sunday 5th Nov 2006 |
4.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
Sustainable Living and Country Matters |
Johnny Kingdom |
Johnny Kingdom lives in Exmoor with his wife, Julie. For the past several years he has made a living running wildlife safaris on the moor and making videos of its flora and fauna. Johnny has become a local celebrity with a nature series on ITV West but is set to become a national treasure with a new BBC2 series. |
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| Sunday 5th Nov 2006 |
6 pm |
Country Bookshop |
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Gervase Phinn |
Gervase Phinn was a teacher for fourteen years before becoming Senior General Inspector with North Yorkshire County Council. Now a bestselling author, following the immense success of his books The Other Side of the Dale, Over Hill and Dale and Head Over Heels in the Dales, all of which have been top ten bestsellers. He is married with four children and lives near Doncaster. Ticket price of £5 includes £2 off latest Gervase Phinn book. |
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| Monday 6th Nov 2006 |
11 am |
Country Bookshop |
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Peter J Murray |
Author of bestselling Mokee Joe books. |
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| Monday 6th Nov 2006 |
6.30 pm |
Hope Valley College, Castleton Road, Hope |
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Alan Titchmarsh |
Alan Titchmarsh is known to millions through the popular BBC TV programmes British Isles: A Natural History, How to be a Gardener, Ground Force, and Gardeners World. He was made MBE in the millenium New Years Honours list and hold the Victoria Medal of Honour, the Royal Horticultural Society' highest award. He lives with his wife and a menagerie of animals in Hampshire where he gardens organically. In his wonderfully evocative and often hilarious memoir 'Nobbut A Lad' he brilliantly recalls his 1950's childhood in the Yorkshire Dales. Ticket price of £5 includes £3 off price of this book (hardback version). |
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| Friday 10th Nov 2006 |
7.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
Sustainable Living and Country Matters |
John Beatty |
John Beatty has been widely acclaimed as one of the most exciting and stimulating nature, travel and adventure photographers to have emerged in recent years. He edits the John Muir Trust Wild Nature Yearbook |
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| Wednesday 15th Nov 2006 |
7.30 pm |
Hope Valley College, Castleton Road, Hope |
The Great Outdoors |
Atlantic Race - James Cracknell and Ben Fogle |
James Cracknell won gold medals at the Sydney 2000 Olympics and the Athens 2004 Olympics and holds three world rowing records. He writes a column for The Daily Telegraph. On 19 January 2006, James and TV presenter Ben Fogle completed the world's most terrifying rowing race. Ben Fogle currently presents Countryfile, One Man and His Dog, Animal Park, and Wild in Africa. Ben's writing has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers including The Daily Telegraph, The Scotsman, The Sunday Times and The Guardian. Ticket price of £6 includes £3 off price of book 'The Crossing'. |
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| Sunday 26th Nov 2006 |
2 pm |
Country Bookshop |
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Tommy Docherty |
Always outspoken and honest, headlines have followed him throughout his career. He achieved success on the pitch with Preston and Scotland but it is as a manager that he secured his place in football history. |
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