| Date |
Time |
Venue |
Category |
Event |
Description |
Ticket |
| Thursday 26th Apr 2007 |
7 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Ramachandra Guha |
Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. Ramachandra Guha, described as 'perhaps the best of India's historians', will be talking about the world's largest and least likely democracy, about the factors and processes that have kept the country together. |
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| Thursday 17th May 2007 |
7 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Marina Lewycka |
Orange Prize Shortlisted Sheffield based author of 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian' will discuss her new book 'Two Caravans' |
£n/a
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| Friday 18th May 2007 |
6.30 pm |
Hassop Hall |
- |
John Major Literary Dinner at Hassop Hall with Rt. Hon. John Major. |
After dinner speech by John Major about his new book 'More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years'. Three course meal with coffee. |
£n/a
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| Saturday 19th May 2007 |
10.45 am |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Ray French |
Creative Writing Workshop. Writing from life with Ray French. |
£n/a
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| Saturday 19th May 2007 |
12.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Anthony Adolph |
Tracing Your Family and Home History. Anthony Adolph, professional genealogist, writer and broadcaster who most recently co-presented BBC1's Gene Detectives. |
£n/a
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| Saturday 19th May 2007 |
3 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Judith Flanders and Lucinda Hawksley |
Victorian Britain. Judith Flanders talking about Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain, and Lucinda Hawksley, great-great-great-grand-daughter of Charles Dickens will talk about Katey - Life and Loves of Dicken's Artist Daughter. |
£n/a
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| Saturday 19th May 2007 |
5 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Julian Baggini |
Welcome to Everytown - What do the English Think? This work provides an insight into what the English really think about life, death, and everything in between. While researching this book about the British psyche, philosopher Julian Baggini spent six months living in Rotherham. |
£n/a
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| Saturday 19th May 2007 |
7.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Giles Milton |
Wine and Cheese Tasting with Giles Milton. Trencom's Nose: A novel of History, Dark Intrigue and Cheese. Giles Milton, author of Nathaniels Nutmeg, has turned to fiction for the first time with a deliciously comic debut novel. |
£n/a
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| Sunday 20th May 2007 |
12.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Lionel Shriver |
Post Birthday World. Lionel Shriver is the author of 'We Need to Talk about Kevin', the winner of the 2005 Orange Prize. |
£n/a
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| Sunday 20th May 2007 |
5.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
William Dalrymple |
Popular historian back again to talk about 'The Last Mughal' after a successful event at the Autumn 2006 Festival. |
£n/a
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| Sunday 20th May 2007 |
7.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Mark Tully |
Born in Calcutta but educated in the UK, Mark Tully has always been a citizen of two countries. He describes the changes that India has brought about in his life. |
£n/a
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| Monday 21st May 2007 |
7 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Deric Longden |
Author of Diana's Story and Lost For Words talks about his new book 'Paws in the Proceedings', about his life with Aileen Armitage and cats. |
£n/a
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| Tuesday 22nd May 2007 |
5 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
David Crystal |
By Hook or By Crook: A Journey in seach of English. A delightfully discursive journey through the groves and thickets of the English language by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English language. |
£n/a
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| Tuesday 22nd May 2007 |
7 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
David Hart Dyke |
David Hart Dyke, Captain of HMS Coventry in the Falklands Conflict. For the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry, war began in earnest on 1 May. Coventry was attakced by two Argentine Skyhawks and hit be three bombs which killed 19 of her crew and injured many others, including her Captain, David Hart Dyke. |
£n/a
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| POSTPONED - WAITING FOR NEW DATE |
- |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Rageh Omaar |
Only Half of Me: Being a Muslim in Britain. Rageh Omaar talks about his childhood in Somalia and growing up as a Muslim in Britain. |
£n/a
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| Thursday 24th May 2007 |
7 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Tony Juniper |
Executive Director of Friends of the Earth discusses 'How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change A Planet? 95 Articles for Comfort, Security and Survival.' |
£n/a
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| Friday 25th May 2007 |
6.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Countrybookshop Online
David Edgerton |
David Edgerton's book 'The Shock of the Old: Technology in Global History Since 1900', offers a global account of the place of technology in twentieth century history. It aims to challenge the idea that we live in an era of ever increasing change and so dismisses naivetes about 'the information age'. Interweaving political and cultural history, it shows what it means to think critically about technology and its importance. |
£n/a
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| Saturday 26th May 2007 |
3 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Hamida Ghafour |
Hamida Ghafour's family fled Kabul after the Russian invasion. Family memoir and portrait of Afghanistan from a young Afghan journalist. |
£n/a
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| Saturday 26th May 2007 |
7.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Louis de Bernieres and Ilone Antonius-Jones |
Poetry and music by Louis de Bernieres (Captain Corelli's Mandolin) and Ilone Antonius-Jones. |
£n/a
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| Sunday 27th May 2007 |
12.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Sebastian Peake |
Sebastian Peake on his father, Mervyn Peake, author of Gormenghast. |
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| Sunday 10th Jun 2007 |
3 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Rosie Boycott |
Our Farm - A Year in the Life of a Smallholding, follows Rosie Boycott and her two and four-legged companions in their efforts to make a smallholding profitable in an era of food globalization. This is a story of a farm and the community that supports it: the local butcher, the Adult Education Centre; and the residents of Ilminster who team together to fight the rise of the supermarkets. |
£n/a
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| Sunday 10th Jun 2007 |
5.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Andrew Simms |
Andrew Simms Tescopoly shows how the supermarkets - and Tesco in particular - have brought: Banality; Ghost towns; a Supermarket State; and global food domination - as the superstores expand overseas. This work includes suggestions for change and corporate reformation to safeguard our communities and environment all over the world. |
£n/a
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| Friday 29th Jun 2007 |
6.30 pm |
Country Bookshop |
- |
Gervase Phinn |
Heart of the Dales - latest installment to the dales series from the extraordinary talented entertainer. |
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