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SUMMARY:An evening with...Alex Preston
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with award-winning author Alex Preston as he talks about his new novel A Stranger in Corfu\, a gripping and stylish literary thriller set on a sun-soaked isle off Corfu. \nOn the Greek island of Vidos the past lingers like salt in the air. The inhabitants – former members of MI6 – are sent here to be forgotten. Exiled. Either too damaged or too compromised to be allowed to live freely. \nFor years\, residents make the best of their fate – old enemies reconcile\, long-lost friends swim together in the warm sea and estranged lovers share a bed once more. But secrets bind tightly. And when one of their own washes up dead\, alliances fracture and a tide of suspicion begins to rise. \nA vivid reimagining of a real\, hidden slice of the British Intelligence Service’s history\, A Stranger in Corfu is an exquisitely tense and masterfully spun novel about shadowy morality\, unravelled secrets and the futility of trying to outrun the past. \n\nReviews \nLe Carré meets The Durrells – A Stranger is Corfu is a brilliantly atmospheric thriller. Suspenseful\, vivid and impossible to put down – TOM HOLLAND \nImagine the Slow Horses had parents who were also spies. Imagine those parents were on a small island\, just off Corfu. Imagine that their chequered pasts might be catching up with them. And then realise you don’t need to imagine it because Alex Preston has done it for you with this beautifully taut\, clever\, classy thriller – NATALIE HAYNES \nTaut\, tense and utterly gripping: Preston evokes a wonderfully thrilling story from the dreamy Ioanian. Nothing short of brilliant – ADAM RUTHERFORD \nA beautiful\, taut novel laced with the thrills of lives half-lived and never escaped; of friendship\, love and relentless betrayal beneath Corfu’s blazing sun and the restless\, dark sea – where secrets threaten to drown them all. A story that haunts long after the last page – EVIE WYLD \nAbout the Author \nAlex Preston is an award-winning author of five novels including This Bleeding City\, The Revelations\, In Love and War and Winchelsea\, as well as a book of non-fiction\, As Kingfishers Catch Fire. He writes regularly for the New York Times\, the Economist and Harper’s Bazaar. He reviews books for the Observer’s New Review\, Financial Times and Spectator. Alex is co-founder of the Corfu Literary Festival and Patron of Oxford Literary Festival. \nTickets: £12 (Ticket only) £25 (to include a copy of A stranger in Corfu) all ticket holders will receive a glass of wine or soft drink on arrival \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.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-alex-preston/
LOCATION:Book-ish Crickhowell\, 18 High Street\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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SUMMARY:An evening of Celtic Magic with Brigid Ehrmantraut
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a captivating introduction to Celtic magic with a talk from Brigid Ehrmantraut. \nHer book Celtic Magic reveals it magic’s integration into daily life from antiquity to the Middle Ages\, inviting readers to explore its mysteries through rituals and practical charms. Druids and divination\, curses and charms: the Celtic world was filled with magic and intrigue\, but how did people practise magic and what did they use it for? Brigid Ehrmantraut takes us on a journey through the Celtic-speaking world to explore the different ways people interacted with magic. Some sought aid through deities and dedications\, while others wanted to punish their enemies with spells and curse tablets. \nBy the start of the medieval period\, we see magic collide with popular religion\, saints overtake the old gods\, and witches\, shapeshifting and spirit battles make their way into medieval literature. Ehrmantraut introduces us to the gods and practices that shaped the lives of the Celtic people in antiquity. She brings to life forgotten gods like Cernunnos and Esus\, immortalized on the Pillar of the Boatmen\, and explores the sanctuary of Sequana\, goddess of healing at the Seine’s source. \nBut magic wasn’t always benevolent; curses (defixiones) like those etched on the Larzac tablet expose a darker side to magic practitioners. While Classical accounts of magic offer tantalizing glimpses into lurid rituals and wild druids\, their accounts blurring fact and fiction. Our voyage through the Celtic world sweeps into medieval Wales and Ireland\, touching on Scotland and Brittany in the process. \nProtective prayers\, such as St Patrick’s loricae\, and miraculous tales from saints’ lives reveal the interplay of magic and religion. While the power of star signs and medicinal charms connect Celtic practices to broader medieval traditions. Finally\, the book celebrates the legacy of Celtic magic\, linking ancient magic to modern Celtic-inspired spirituality. \nThroughout the book\, the reader will find tips and tricks for practising their own magic\, including creating curses\, dedicating ex votos to the gods\, and a medieval Welsh cure for a hangover.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/an-evening-of-celtic-magic-with-brigid-ehrmantraut/
LOCATION:Book-ish Crickhowell\, 18 High Street\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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SUMMARY:An evening with... Jane Harper in conversation with Clare Mackintosh
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, April 28th at 7:30pm at The Parkway Hotel\, Cwmbran for an evening with New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper! Jane will discuss her new novel\, Last One Out. \nAbout  ‘Last One Out’ \nAn unforgettable small-town mystery with huge emotional resonance from International No. 1 bestselling author Jane Harper\, perfect for fans of Val McDermid\, Chris Whitaker and Elly Griffiths.\n\n‘Utterly brilliant . . . I could not put it down’ – Marian Keyes’A book to get lost in’ – Ann Cleeves’Heartbreaking and wonderful’ – Andrea Mara’I was glued to it for days’ – Jennie Godfrey’Jane Harper delivers unbearable tension’ – Val McDermid.\nAnd he had been alone. In a dying town\, Ro Crowley waits for her son on the evening of his twenty-first birthday. Sam never comes home. \nHis footprints in the dust of three abandoned houses offer the only clue to his final movements. One set in. One set out. \nFive long years later\, Ro returns to Carralon Ridge for the annual memorial of Sam’s disappearance. The skeletal community is now an echo of itself\, having fractured under the pressure of the coal mine operating on its outskirts. But Ro still wants answers. \nOnly a few people remain. If the truth is to be found in that town\, does it lie among them? Last One Out is a hugely atmospheric mystery from the author of The Dry\, Force of Nature\, The Lost Man\, The Survivors and Exiles. \nAbout Jane Harper \nJane Harper is the author of The Dry\, winner of various awards including the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript\, the 2017 Indie Award Book of the Year\, the 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year Award and the CWA Gold Dagger Award for the best crime novel of 2017. Rights have been sold in 27 territories worldwide\, and film rights optioned to Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea. Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK and lives in Melbourne. \nAbout Clare Mackintosh \nClare Mackintosh is the author of I Let You Go and a series of bestselling crime novels including The Last Party\, A Game of Lies and Other People’s Houses. Her books have topped the Sunday Times bestseller lists\, been translated into over 40 languages worldwide and have sold millions of copies. A former police officer and journalist\, Clare now writes full time and lives in North Wales. \nEvent Format:\nJane with be in conversation with Clare Mackintosh followed by audience Q&A and book signing. \nTickets:\n £25 with a signed copy of ‘Last One Out‘ or £10 Ticket only \nVenue:\nThe Parkway Hotel is a modern 2-story Hotel situated between Cwmbran & Newport\, 4 miles from the M4 (junction 25A). The hotel offers plenty of options for a meal and drink before the event in the bar\, coffee shop or Ravello’s restaurant (a booking may be required) \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-jane-harper/
LOCATION:The Parkway Hotel\, Cwmbran\, Cwmbran Drive\,\, Cwmbran\, NP44 3UW
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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SUMMARY:An evening with - Bryony Gordon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Sunday Times bestselling author\, journalist and mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon as she discusses her debut novel People Pleaser – a fiercely funny\, instantly relatable\, and utterly feel-good novel about the pressures women feel to please everyone at the expense of their own happiness. \n“You’re so desperate to make everybody else happy that you’ve forgotten what makes you happy. You’ve not just forgotten it\, you’ve abandoned it\, on a bonfire full of all your other hopes and dreams. A bonfire you’re too scared to light in case the neighbours report you to the council.” \nAfter a bitter career disappointment and subsequent raucous night out\, chronic people pleaser Olivia Greenwood embarks on a wild and hilarious journey of inner awakening… \nBryony is the author of the bestselling The Wrong Knickers and Mad Woman\, plus the Sunday Times No.1 bestsellers You Got This and Mad Girl\, which were both nominated for British Book Awards. She is a passionate advocate for mental health in the media\, which she explores through her weekly Daily Mail column and her podcast The Life of Bryony. In 2017 she was awarded the MIND Making A Difference Award and the Royal College of Psychiatrist’s President’s Medal in 2023 for her work in mental health. \nEvent Format:\nAuthor talk ‘in conversation’\, followed by audience Q&A and book signing. \nTickets:\n£10 without book or \n£20 with People Pleaser \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-bryony-gordon/
LOCATION:The Parkway Hotel\, Cwmbran\, Cwmbran Drive\,\, Cwmbran\, NP44 3UW
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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SUMMARY:Crime & Wine with...Matthew Hall
DESCRIPTION:Greed\, corruption and the race to save an ancient homeland \nWhen Jessie Cunningham\, a high-flying Toronto lawyer with a round-the-clock schedule\, is deserted and betrayed by her jealous partner\, she suffers a nervous collapse. To recuperate\, she takes up an isolated charity assignment\, mapping trees in the forest wilderness of British Columbia. \nAs her guide to the rugged terrain\, she engages Todd Samson\, a taciturn First Nations man from the Three Valleys reserve who is on the front line of the struggle to save his community from ruthless developers. Two people from vastly different worlds\, the pair are slowly building a rapport when Todd is arrested and falsely accused of murder. \nShocked by the police’s casual disregard for evidence\, Jessie steps forward to assist a jaded local lawyer with Todd’s defence. But she is soon pitted against darker forces. Teaming up with the Chief of Three Valleys and a local shaman and woodcarver\, she finds herself taking on greed and corruption in a race to save the reserve and its people from destruction and Todd from his own demons. \nAbout Matthew Hall \nMatthew Hall is a Bafta-winning screenwriter and novelist who lives on the England/Wales border. \nHe trained and practised as a barrister before becoming a full-time writer. His first original series Wing and a Prayer was nominated for a Bafta and he won a Bafta Cymru in 2018 for Keeping Faith. \nHis debut novel The Coroner was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger in 2009\, as was his fourth novel The Flight in 2012. His Jenny Cooper novels were recently adapted for television in Canada as the series Coroner and the first four seasons have aired on CBC. \nHe has strong family connections to both Ontario and Vancouver and has visited Canada regularly since 1983.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-matthew-hall/
LOCATION:Book-ish Crickhowell\, 18 High Street\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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SUMMARY:An Evening with ... Lucie McKnight Hardy
DESCRIPTION:Join us in conversation with Lucie who grew up in West Wales and is a Welsh speaker and now lives in Hay-on-Wye. Her most recent book has been heralded as a ‘claustrophobic folk horror’ by Sunday Times Style \nAbout Lucie McKnight Hardy\nLucie McKnight Hardy is the author of Water Shall Refuse Them\, which was shortlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition and long listed for the Caledonia Novel Award and the short story collection\, Dead Relatives. Both were picked as Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month.  \nAbout Night Babies \n \nIs the house haunted? Or is it her? \nThings were looking up for Astrid Aspden and her partner\, Kit\, until their house flooded. With Astrid’s first solo art exhibition just weeks away\, her paintings are ruined and excitement has turned to despair. She is thrown a lifeline when her best friend Flora invites her to stay in a run-down chapel she and her partner\, Sim\, are renovating in the Brecon Beacons. As Astrid and Kit settle into their new surroundings to salvage her work\, they soon learn about the unsettling history of the chapel and what lies beneath the nearby reservoir. \nAs the weeks go by\, tensions simmer between Astrid and Flora as sour memories flare up from their teenage past and deep wounds are laid bare from an ill-fated school trip to Florence. Her relationship with Kit begins to fray as the chapel and the surrounding hostile beauty of the valley begin to intrude on their lives. \nAstrid throws herself into her work but the longer she spends in the chapel the more she begins to notice things: handprints on her paintings\, shadowy figures reflected in the reservoir and voices whispering in the night. As the darkness of the Welsh valley closes in on Astrid\, will she be able to run from the looming horror or be consumed by it? \n\n\n\nEvent Format:\nAuthor talk ‘in conversation’\, followed by audience Q&A and book signing. \nTickets:\n£10 without book or £22 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-lucie-mcknight-hardy/
LOCATION:Book-ish Crickhowell\, 18 High Street\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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SUMMARY:An evening with...Jack Strange & Emily Garside
DESCRIPTION:The Boyfriend Academy by Jack Strange – Love is forbidden. Truth is dangerous. Survival is everything. \nGanymede’s is no ordinary boarding school. Behind its spiral towers and manicured lawns\, boys are forged into the men society demands – strong\, obedient\, perfect. Graduate\, and the world is yours: a home\, a career\, a wife. But fail… and you’re no longer useful to society. \nRainbow Wales by Emily Garside – Who are the Queer figures\, past and present\, who have made\, and continue to make\, Welsh history?   \nDiscover the diverse array of LGBTQ+ figures influencing Wales – and the world – in an exploration of the household names and hidden icons who have shaped their fields and driven forward Queer representation. \n  \nEvent Format:\nAuthor talk ‘in conversation’\, followed by audience Q&A and book signing. \nTickets:\n£8 without book or £15 with The Boyfriend Academy or £18 with Rainbow Wales \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-jack-strange-emily-garside/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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SUMMARY:An evening with ... Jon Doyle
DESCRIPTION:AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT OF 2026\n‘Luminous\, intelligent and sincere […] an immaculate debut with dirt under its fingernails’ – Colin Walsh\, author of Kala \n‘Electric… A wonderful\, brilliant piece of work. Just brilliant. This is someone with a voice\, with something to say\, with a natural talent.’ Kasim Ali\, author of Good Intentions \n‘Jon Doyle is a great new voice – and an important one. His work is real in the very best sense: exactly observed\, often funny and unafraid of the greatest themes’ Tom Bullough\, author of Sarn Helen and Addlands \n‘A highly original book that strips back the traditional architecture of the novel until each paragraph arrives like a short\, beautiful breath\, and in the silences between\, the true voices of Port Talbot are able to sing through. A thrilling evocation of a community’ Andrew McMillan\, author of Pity \n\nAbout Jon Doyle\nJon Doyle is a writer based in Port Talbot\, South Wales. He was part of Literature Wales’ Representing Wales scheme in 2022/23\, and won the Writers & Artists Working-Class Writers’ Prize 2023. He holds a BSc and MRes in Zoology and MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University\, and a PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University. His work has appeared in Short Fiction\, Hobart\, Ploughshares Online\, The Rumpus\, 3:AM Magazine\, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction among other places. Communion is his first novel. \nAbout Communion\n \nJust so we’re clear\, she said\, I know the rules of confession. What I say cannot be repeated. Not to anyone…\n \nWhen Mack O’Brien left his home in Port Talbot for the seminary as a teenager\, he didn’t imagine he’d be back a decade later\, unordained and still at a loss as to what makes for a moral life. He takes a job as a security guard at the local steelworks and begins an uneasy transition into the world he once rejected. When the men of the steelworks organise an unprecedented strike in protest against job cuts\, he sees no reason not to go along with it. \nThe last person Mack expects to see in the local club is Siwan Roderick – the woman who appeared out of the blue at the seminary one day to make a confession and swear him to secrecy. Mack kept his word. But as the day of the strike nears\, and as he begins to fully understand what Siwan is planning\, Mack is forced to reckon with his loyalty to her and the question of whether an act of violence can ever be justified. \n\n\n\nEvent Format:\nAuthor talk ‘in conversation’\, followed by audience Q&A and book signing. \nTickets:\n£10 ticket only \n£20 ticket 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/an-evening-with-jon-doyle/
LOCATION:Book-ish Crickhowell\, 18 High Street\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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SUMMARY:An evening with ... Rob Cowen
DESCRIPTION:The North Road is the critically acclaimed new book from the author of Common Ground. For fans of W.G. Sebald\, Robert Macfarlane\, Iain Sinclair and Kathleen Jamie\, The North Road sits at the intersection between On The Road and the film\, Arcadia. \nAbout Rob Cowen\nRob Cowen is an award-winning writer and author\, hailed as one of the UK’s most original voices on nature\, place and people. His first book\, Skimming Stones\, won the Roger Deakin Award from the Society of Authors. His second book\, Common Ground was shortlisted for the Portico\, Richard Jefferies Society and Wainwright Prizes and voted one of the nation’s favourite nature books of all time in a BBC poll. His follow-up\, The Heeding\, was the best-selling debut book of poetry in 2021. Rob has contributed to the New York Times\, the Guardian and the Independent and written radio programmes for the BBC. He lives in North Yorkshire. \nAbout The North Road\nAt the heart of this book is a highway. The A1; The Great North Road. A 400-mile multiplicity of ancient trackway\, Roman road\, pilgrim path\, coach route and motorway that has run like a backbone through Britain for the last 2\,000 years. In this genre-defying and profoundly personal book\, Cowen follows this ghost road from beginning to end on a journey through history\, place\, people and time. Weaving his own histories and memories with the layered landscapes he moves through\, this is the story of an age\, of coming to terms with time past and time passing\, and the roads that lead us to where we find ourselves. Written in kaleidoscopic prose\, The North Road is an unforgettable exploration of Britain’s great highway. \n\n\n\nEvent Format:\nAuthor talk ‘in conversation with Tom Bullough\, followed by audience Q&A and book signing. \nTickets:\n£10 without book or £15 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-rob-cowen/
LOCATION:Book-ish Crickhowell\, 18 High Street\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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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
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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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
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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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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SUMMARY:An evening with ... David  Baldacci
DESCRIPTION:David Baldacci will join us in conversation with Tim Ridout\, Q&A and signing. \nAbout David Baldacci \nDavid Baldacci is an award-winning global #1 bestselling author\, and one of the world’s favourite thriller writers.  A former trial lawyer with a keen interest in world politics\, he has specialist knowledge of the US political system and intelligence services. His first book\, Absolute Power\, became an instant international hit\, with the movie starring Clint Eastwood a major box office success. He has since written more than fifty novels featuring a variety of characters including Walter Nash\, Travis Devine\, Amos Decker and Aloysius Archer. \nDavid is also the co-founder\, along with his wife\, of the Wish You Well Foundation\, a non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across the US. \n\nAbout Hope Rises  \nThe latest gripping thriller from the multimillion copy global bestseller \nWalter Nash returns…  An ordinary family man thrown into a dangerous underworld \nOnce upon a time\, Walter Nash was a mild-mannered\, hard-working\, happy man. Minding his own business\, looking after his family. Everything changed when the FBI revealed his company as a criminal empire and enlisted him in a daring mission to dismantle it. Driven by justice and revenge\, Nash was forced to dive into a very dark world… One that shattered his life. Underestimate Water Nash at your peril\, because a man who has lost everything is capable of anything… \nWalter Nash isn’t the man he used to be. But when everything crumbles\, hope rises… \n  \n\n\nEvent Format:\nAuthor talk ‘in conversation’\, followed by audience Q&A and book signing. \nTickets:\n£15 or £25 with a signed copy of Hope Rises \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-david-baldacci/
LOCATION:The Parkway Hotel\, Cwmbran\, Cwmbran Drive\,\, Cwmbran\, NP44 3UW
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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SUMMARY:An evening with ... Mel Giedroyc
DESCRIPTION:Mel Giedroyc will join us in conversation with a Q&A and signing. \nAbout Mel Giedroyc \nMel Giedroyc has been entertaining the nation for over thirty years. A comedian\, writer\, actor and presenter\, Mel is also known for her work alongside Sue Perkins\, such as multi Bafta-winning Great British Bake Off (BBC) and Light Lunch (Channel 4). Mel has written two non-fiction books and has appeared in sitcoms and panel shows\, as well as on radio and on stage\, in Stephen Sondheim’s Olivier Award-winning Company in the West End and in Starter for Ten at Bristol’s Old Vic. Mel lives in London with her husband and two daughters. Her debut novel The Best Things was a Sunday Times hardback bestseller. \nAbout The Comeback \n\nThe brand new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Mel Giedroyc is a funny\, big-hearted story of second chances. \nSometimes life surprises you with an encore… \nTwenty years ago\, aspiring performer Gill Piper boarded a bus out of Leatherhead with a spring in her step and stars in her eyes. Things didn’t quite pan out… Back home again\, Gill finds much has changed. Young Lights\, the youth theatre group which coaxed her out of her shell\, is no more. The theatre itself\, once the heartbeat of the community\, now feels like a has-been; Gill can relate. When Gill learns the theatre is approaching its hundredth year\, she decides to put on a spectacular anniversary show to give it a comeback and unite the town. She has just eight weeks\, but if she can persuade some shy newcomers to step into the spotlight\, it might just be possible. But Gill hasn’t counted on self-appointed Artistic Director and diva extraordinaire Carla Keswick\, who declares war. Can Gill and her unlikely company of amateurs defy Carla’s dirty tricks\, and prove it’s never too late for a curtain call? \n\n\nEvent Format:\nAuthor talk ‘in conversation’\, followed by audience Q&A and book signing. \nTickets:\n£15 or \n£22 with The Comeback \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-mel-giedroyc/
LOCATION:The Parkway Hotel\, Cwmbran\, Cwmbran Drive\,\, Cwmbran\, NP44 3UW
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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