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SUMMARY:An evening with ... Robin Ince
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to welcome Robin Ince back to Book-ish with his brand new book! \nAbout Robin Ince  \nFor over thirty years\, award-winning broadcaster and comedian Robin Ince has entertained thousands in person and on air. But underneath the surface\, a whirlwind was at play – a struggle with sadness\, concentration\, self-doubt and near-constant anxiety. But then he discovered he had all the hallmarks of ADHD\, and his stumbling blocks became stepping stones.\n  \nAbout Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity\nWhat if being a bit weird is actually entirely normal? What if sharing our internal struggles wasn’t a sign of weakness\, but of strength? \nIn Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal\, Robin uses his own life to explore the neurodivergent experience and to ask what the point of ‘being normal’ really is. Packed with personal insights\, intimate anecdotes and interviews with psychologists\, neuroscientists and many neurodivergent people he has met along the way\, this is a quirky and witty dive into the world of human behaviour. ‘This is a comforting hug of a book. \nInsightful\, warm\, funny and compassionate\, it will make readers\, whether neurotypical or neurodivergent\, feel less alone’ – Laura Bates\, bestselling author of Everyday Sexism‘Weirdness is inescapable\, and no one does it better than Robin Ince. \nA superb book\, celebrating the needed weirdness in us all’ – Chris Hadfield\, astronaut and five-time bestselling author \nEvent Format:\nAuthor talk followed by audience Q&A and book signing.  \nTickets:\n£10 ticket only  \nor £15 with Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal \nVenue:\nThe Loft at Bookish is located in our flagship store in Crickhowell\, accessed from Silver Lane.\nPlease let us know if you have an accessibility/mobility requirements.  \nRefunds:\nIt is our general policy not to refund event tickets unless an event has sold out. In the case of sold out events where we have a waiting list for tickets\, we will attempt to sell on your tickets at face value\, if notified 7 days prior to the event. If sold\, you will receive a refund for the ticket value. Alternatively\, you can request to transfer your tickets to another event\, making up any difference in ticket price. Please contact us if you are unable to attend an event: info@book-ish.co.uk for further advice.  \nSocial Media:\nOut team may record for social media\, you may be seen on these videos/photos. Please talk to a team member should you not wish to be recorded. 
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-robin-ince-2/
LOCATION:Book-ish Crickhowell\, 18 High Street\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD
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SUMMARY:A walk and talk with ... Paul Harris - The Warrior Walker
DESCRIPTION:‘An epic and inspirational journey that everyone should read’ JASON FOX\, SAS: WHO DARES WINS \nAbout Paul Harris and The Warrior Walker \nIn 2020\, Paul Harris aka ‘The Warrior Walker’ set off on a walking pilgrimage around the UK that would change his life and the way he saw the world forever. \nWeighed down by a traumatic military past in the marines\, a brief but surreal moment as a reality TV contestant (on Channel 4’s Shipwrecked) and a temporary teaching career in Thailand\, Paul was forced home when a visa mix-up tipped his life over. With no real family to speak of\, very few friends\, and a collapsing\, long distance relationship to grieve\, he seriously contemplated taking his own life at the age of 36. Then a random text from a friend delivered a route map to emotional safety during what were possibly his final few hours. Paul\, why don’t you walk the British coast path? \n With only £300 in his pocket and a 30-kilo rucksack on his back\, Paul decided to leave his life as he knew it and took up wild camping\, slept rough\, struggled along the coast paths of Devon\, Cornwall and Wales in the sideways rain\, and wading through knee-high snowdrifts around the Scottish islands and the burning summer sun on England’s east coast. \nWalking was therapy. Nature was restorative. The path was his friend. The Warrior Walker is more than just one man’s journey of self-discovery. Paul’s story shines a light on the kindness of strangers\, of the coast path gave him purpose\, about discovering family and true love\, giving back to the communities who supported him and of finding light even in his darkest of moments. In a world where so much human interaction is cruel\, divisive and distant\, this is a reminder that there is magic out there\, if we are willing to open ourselves to it. \nOn his second lap\, wanting to give back to the communities that had so helped him on the walk\, he raised over £10\,000 for MIND\, Great North Air Ambulance\, Samaritans and Doctors Without Borders. After completing his walk\, Paul told the BBC: ‘I basically cried my way around the UK on the first lap because people were putting me up and it was just like therapy. The kindness of strangers has changed my life. I thought\, I can’t really pay it forward because I haven’t got any money\, so I thought I’d raise money for charity.’ \nHe currently works in a pub in Plymouth. The path remains just outside his door. Find him on Instagram @thewarriorwalker \n\n\n\nEvent Format:\nAuthor talk ‘in conversation’\, followed by audience Q&A and book signing. \nTickets: \n£10 talk only \n£15  talk and book \n£15 walk only  \n£20 walk and talk  \n£28 Walk\, talk and book \nVenue:\nThe Loft at Bookish is located in our flagship store in Crickhowell\, accessed from Silver Lane.\nPlease let us know if you have an accessibility/mobility requirements. \nRefunds:\nIt is our general policy not to refund event tickets unless an event has sold out. In the case of sold out events where we have a waiting list for tickets\, we will attempt to sell on your tickets at face value\, if notified 7 days prior to the event. If sold\, you will receive a refund for the ticket value. Alternatively\, you can request to transfer your tickets to another event\, making up any difference in ticket price. Please contact us if you are unable to attend an event: info@book-ish.co.uk for further advice. \nSocial Media:\nOur team may record for social media\, you may be seen on these videos/photos. Please talk to a team member should you not wish to be recorded.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/a-walk-and-talk-with-paul-harris-the-warrior-walker/
LOCATION:Book-ish Crickhowell\, 18 High Street\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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SUMMARY:An evening with ... Kim Willis
DESCRIPTION:No Fair Maidens is part memoir\, part exploration of the powerful\, often forgotten\, ancient goddesses and matriarchs of Britain. In this beautifully written and lyrical work\, Kim Willis uses ancient stories and mythologies to question what it means to be a woman today… \nAbout Kim Willis\nIn her late thirties\, Kim Willis was told by a doctor that she’d never be able to conceive children\, a conversation that made her question the very course of her life. Living in a warehouse in East London\, her life a whirlwind of BBQs and baby showers\, Kim felt herself drifting from the traditional path of marriage and motherhood\, and yearning for a new set of stories to light her way.Kim Willis is a narrative strategist and journalist based between London and South Wales. She has designed storytelling strategies for Number 10 and the UN\, written about wild places for the Guardian and was the founder of ‘Heroine’s Journey’ speaker series.\n  \nAbout No Fair Maidens \nReturning to her native Wales\, Kim Willis immersed herself in stories of ancient goddesses and matriarchs: shape-shifting enchantresses\, scaly nymphs and goddesses who once commanded our lands. These are no fair maidens\, but powerful warrioresses and animalistic beasts\, snaking along the edges of watery places where we meet the otherworld in the shadows. \nFrom Arianrhod and Melusine to Cerridwen and Gwendoline\, these are not necessarily heroines the reader will be familiar with\, but their stories are powerful\, timeless and universal and speak to what it is to be a woman today. Journeying from the Severn to Skye\, Eryri to Northumberland\, Kim discovered new magic in the tales of old\, unveiling forgotten truths about grief and healing\, while charting a new course\nthrough sisterhood and sexuality\, fertility and freedom. Through the threads of folklore\, history and landscape\, Kim identifies a better way of being for modern women\, and crafts a new vision for Britain where women are – and always were – a force of nature. \nEvent Format:\nAuthor talk ‘in conversation’\, followed by audience Q&A and book signing.  \nTickets:\n£10 without book or £23 with book  \nVenue:\nThe Loft at Bookish is located in our flagship store in Crickhowell\, accessed from Silver Lane.\nPlease let us know if you have an accessibility/mobility requirements.  \nRefunds:\nIt is our general policy not to refund event tickets unless an event has sold out. In the case of sold out events where we have a waiting list for tickets\, we will attempt to sell on your tickets at face value\, if notified 7 days prior to the event. If sold\, you will receive a refund for the ticket value. Alternatively\, you can request to transfer your tickets to another event\, making up any difference in ticket price. Please contact us if you are unable to attend an event: info@book-ish.co.uk for further advice.  \nSocial Media:\nOut team may record for social media\, you may be seen on these videos/photos. Please talk to a team member should you not wish to be recorded. 
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-kim-willis/
LOCATION:Book-ish Crickhowell\, 18 High Street\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD
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SUMMARY:An evening with...Geraint Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Geraint Anderson is the former banker who blew the whistle on high finance with his bestselling memoir ‘Cityboy’. Now he is back with his new book ‘How to Con Friends and Manipulate People’ \nGeraint Anderson is a best-selling author\, journalist\, speaker and filmmaker. In 1996\, Geraint’s brother tricked him into trying out a job as an equity analyst at an investment bank and\, ten years later\, despite his best efforts to self-destruct\, he found himself heading one of the highest-ranked teams in London. \nAfter a decade of watching the Square Mile degenerate into a Wild West casino\, Geraint suffered a crisis of conscience and began exposing the dubious behaviour he witnessed via an anonymous newspaper column read by a million Londoners every Friday. In early 2008\, after a near-fatal motorbike accident\, he left banking to publish an account of the madness he had witnessed; Cityboy went on to sell over 400\,000 copies and was translated into six languages. Geraint became a regular commentor on the financial world and regularly writes for British newspapers and magazines. Geraint also wrote two City-based novels before writing and producing the award-winning feature film Trick or Treat. \nGeraint now lives in Monmouthshire with his wife and two children. \nEvent Format:\nAuthor talk ‘in conversation’ with fellow author Rob Penn\, followed by audience Q&A and book signing. \nTickets:\n£8 without book or £15 with book \nVenue:\nBook-ish Abergavenny\, the toilet is not accessible for wheelchair users \nRefunds:\nIt is our general policy not to refund event tickets unless an event has sold out. In the case of sold out events where we have a waiting list for tickets\, we will attempt to sell on your tickets at face value\, if notified 7 days prior to the event. If sold\, you will receive a refund for the ticket value. Alternatively\, you can request to transfer your tickets to another event\, making up any difference in ticket price. Please contact us if you are unable to attend an event: info@book-ish.co.uk for further advice. \nSocial Media:\nOut team may record for social media\, you may be seen on these videos/photos. Please talk to a team member should you not wish to be recorded.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-geraint-anderson/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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SUMMARY:An evening with ... Bobby Palmer
DESCRIPTION:‘I laughed\, I teared up\, I couldn’t put it down. This is a love story like no other. This book gave me genuine joy and broke my heart. For fans of Heartburn\, David Nicholls\, Sally Rooney” \nAbout Bobby Palmer\nBobby Palmer is both an author and journalist. His critically acclaimed debut novel\, Isaac and the Egg\, was a Waterstones Paperback of the Year in 2022. Bobby cohosts the podcast Book Chat with Pandora Sykes and his writing has appeared in GQ\, Esquire\, Men’s Health\, Cosmopolitan amongst others. Join us on 29th June to fall in love with this new novel. \nAbout Main Characters\nClara and Seb are about to fall in love.\nThey don’t know it yet.\nBut everybody else does. \nWhen Clara and Seb meet in a quiet corner of London\, it’s the start of something. She wants to be a director. He’s an actor\, unsure what he wants from life. Their connection is magnetic. Everyone can see that falling in love looks something like this. But when Clara casts Seb in the film that will make her name\, what should be the happiest time of their lives ends with a gut-wrenching betrayal. \nSome love stories are bigger than just two people. This one is told through the eyes of friends\, flatmates\, exes and strangers who see all the sides of Seb and Clara\, from their first date to the moment they fell apart. Everyone has their version of events. But only Clara and Seb can decide how their story ends… \nThis is a love story\, told by everyone but the main characters. \n\n\n\nEvent Format:\nAuthor talk ‘in conversation’\, followed by audience Q&A and book signing. \nTickets:\n£10 without book or £28 with book \nVenue:\nThe Loft at Bookish is located in our flagship store in Crickhowell\, accessed from Silver Lane.\nPlease let us know if you have an accessibility/mobility requirements. \nRefunds:\nIt is our general policy not to refund event tickets unless an event has sold out. In the case of sold out events where we have a waiting list for tickets\, we will attempt to sell on your tickets at face value\, if notified 7 days prior to the event. If sold\, you will receive a refund for the ticket value. Alternatively\, you can request to transfer your tickets to another event\, making up any difference in ticket price. Please contact us if you are unable to attend an event: info@book-ish.co.uk for further advice. \nSocial Media:\nOut team may record for social media\, you may be seen on these videos/photos. Please talk to a team member should you not wish to be recorded.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-bobby-palmer/
LOCATION:Book-ish Crickhowell\, 18 High Street\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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SUMMARY:An evening with ... Mark Billingham &  Abir Mukherjee
DESCRIPTION:Mark Billingham & Abir Mukherjee will join us in conversation together\, Q&A and signing. \nAbout Mark Billingham \nMark Billingham is one of the UK’s most acclaimed and popular crime writers. He has twice won the Theakston Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year\, the Theakston Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution Award\, the Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British writer and in 2026 he was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger for an outstanding lifetime contribution to the genre. \n\nAbout The Shadow Step \nThe Shadow Step:One taken simultaneously by a pair of dancers facing the same direction\, one of them behind and slightly shifted leftwards (‘in the shadow’)… \nTypically\, such a step perfectly demonstrates synchronized elegance. It showcases a couple in near telepathic harmony with one another. \nIt does not normally end with someone stone-dead in a lake. \nDS Declan Miller is a magnet for strange cases\, but how can he catch a killer when the man confessing to the crime is clearly innocent? Things rapidly escalate when the murder that isn’t really a murder at all attracts the unwanted attention of a drugs Queenpin\, a deranged ex-squaddie and a lovesick gangland enforcer. Then a student is kidnapped… \nThrow in a wobbly dog\, a pair of ceramic leopards and the distracting smell from a local biscuit factory\, and – if he wants to save a young man’s life – Miller has little choice but to waltz all the way into the shadows. \n\n  \nAbout Abir Mukherjee\n \nAbir Mukherjee is the bestselling author of the award-winning Wyndham & Banerjee series of crime novels set in 1920s India and the British Book Awards Crime Thriller of the Year 2025 Hunted. His books have been translated into sixteen languages and won various awards including the CWA Dagger for best Historical Novel\, the Prix du Polar Européen\, and the Wilbur Smith Award for Adventure Writing.  \n\n\n\nAbout The Pinnacle \nEvery floor has its secrets.  \nWashed-up American heart-throb George Abercrombie hates India\, even from the rarified heights of his apartment on the 68th floor of the Pinnacle\, Mumbai’s grandest luxury skyscraper. He hates the noise\, he hates the heat and maybe he’s even grown to hate his much younger wife\, the newest queen of Bollywood\, Sweety Sahota.  \nWhen George wakes from a drunken stupor to find Sweety murdered in their bedroom\, he knows he will be the prime suspect. But where is her computer\, her phone – and where has his personal assistant gone?  \nAs George scrambles to piece together the night\, others in the building are covering their tracks. Sweety’s assistant must find who is blackmailing her\, and a servant who knows too much goes on the run.  \nWelcome to the Pinnacle. A place where murder meets luxury and the world’s most privileged depend on the most desperate.  \nEvent Format:\nAuthor talk ‘in conversation’\, followed by audience Q&A and book signing. \nTickets:\n£10 without book or \n£22 with Shadow Step \n£18 with The Pinnacle \nVenue:\n \nThe Parkway Hotel\, Cwbran \nPlease let us know if you have an accessibility/mobility requirements. \nRefunds:\nIt is our general policy not to refund event tickets unless an event has sold out. In the case of sold out events where we have a waiting list for tickets\, we will attempt to sell on your tickets at face value\, if notified 7 days prior to the event. If sold\, you will receive a refund for the ticket value. Alternatively\, you can request to transfer your tickets to another event\, making up any difference in ticket price. Please contact us if you are unable to attend an event: info@book-ish.co.uk for further advice. \nSocial Media:\nOur team may record for social media\, you may be seen on these videos/photos. Please talk to a team member should you not wish to be recorded.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-mark-billingham-abir-mukherjee/
LOCATION:The Parkway Hotel\, Cwmbran\, Cwmbran Drive\,\, Cwmbran\, NP44 3UW
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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