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SUMMARY:Book Signing with... Jordan Collver
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Book-ish Abergavenny at 1pm on Saturday 15th November for a book signing with children’s graphic novel author Jordan Collver to celebrate his new book – Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt. Books will be available to purchase\, please book a free ticket to help us estimate attendance. \nAbout Pets Tell Tales: Ancient Egypt\nWhat REALLY happened in Ancient Egypt? In this graphic novel the animals of the past are here to tell you the REAL deal… So\, you think you know about Ancient Egypt – the pyramids\, mummies\, and pharoahs? Well\, we’re the animals of Ancient Egypt and we think it’s time we told you the REAL history. We’re kind of a big deal to the Ancient Egyptians. \nYou might learn a thing or two\, starting with the Pharoahs. Oh\, boy. Did you know there were seven Cleopatras?! And eleven Ramesses? We’re going to talk about the really good stuff\, like baboon guards\, mummified cats\, and sacred poop-pushers. \nThis TRUE comic book will keep every reader glued to the page as they discover life in Ancient Egypt.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-with-jordan-collver/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Signing
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with... Tamara Price
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Book-ish Abergavenny at 1pm on Friday 31st October for a book signing with Builth Wells-based author Tamara Price for her debut YA gothic fantasy – The Alchemist’s Daughter. Books will be available to purchase\, please book a free ticket to help us estimate attendance. \nAbout The Alchemist’s Daughter\nWhat frightened her the most were the monsters living inside her head. Living inside her. In the mythical world of Tellus\, Pax Silva awaits her Ortus day\, when she will finally obtain her telekinetic powers. Shunned by her community for being too unpredictable\, so she longs for a life of adventure beyond her small forest home. But when her village is attacked\, and her Alchemist father and mother are taken\, she is left with only cryptic clues and a mysterious golden amulet. Convinced that the much-feared Supremo Gen are responsible for their capture\, Pax and her childhood friend\, Am\, travel to Rubra to confront them\, alongside Miles\, a warrior with a bionic leg\, and Venefica\, an ancient witch Pax is uncertain she can trust. With the Blood Moon due to rise\, will Pax be able to save her parents before it’s too late? \nThis YA gothic fantasy features a cast of well-rounded non-binary\, neurodivergent and disabled characters\, and explores themes of friendship\, sacrifice\, betrayal\, redemption and self-discovery. \nThe Alchemist’s Daughter is the perfect introduction to fantasy for young teens\, reminiscent of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series\, Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows series and Alex Aster’s Lightlark.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-with-tamara-price/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:Author Signing
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with... Anna Fiteni
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Book-ish Abergavenny at 1pm on Saturday 18th October for a book signing with Anna Fiteni. Books will be available to purchase\, please book a free ticket to help us estimate attendance. \nAbout The Wicked Lies of Habren Faire\nCeridwen Parry has run away with the fairies. But this is not her story. For Sabrina Parry\, the world is tough\, cruel and practical. With her father in prison\, her aims in life are: 1. hold onto her job\, 2. hold her tongue and 3. set up her sister Ceridwen with a man rich enough to look after her. Ceridwen is lovely\, romantic\, timid – everything that Sabrina isn’t. But then Ceridwen vanishes into the eerie woods leaving only an iron ring behind and Sabrina is drawn into a beautiful but decaying world of fairies and monsters of old. And when an annoyingly handsome fairy prince offers her a dangerous deal\, Sabrina is forced to put her own freedom at risk to save her sister. \nAn irresistible dark fae romantasy\, inspired by Welsh mythology and perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas\, Faebound\, Leigh Bardugo and Holly Black’s The Cruel Prince.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-with-anna-fiteni/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Signing
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SUMMARY:Book Signing...Cressida Cowell
DESCRIPTION:Book Signing Event with Cressida Cowell📅 Thursday 9th October | 🕓 4:00 PM \nJoin us for a magical afternoon with Cressida Cowell\, the bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon\, as she signs copies of her brand new book:Which Way To The Future – Book 3 in her thrilling\, out-of-this-world new series! \nThis cosmic adventure is packed with forbidden Magic\, dangerous space travel\, and five extraordinary children who just might be the universe’s last hope. Two of them—Mabel and Izzabird—are about to discover Magical Gifts unlike anything the galaxy has ever seen. But with Bounty Hunters on their trail\, a powerful witch in their path\, and three perilous tasks ahead… will they become the Heroes they were meant to be? \n🪐 Expect excitement\, adventure\, and maybe even a few surprises from the universe itself!📖 Books will be available to purchase on the day.📸 Don’t miss your chance to meet Cressida Cowell and get your copy signed! \nWARNING: Event may contain Very Illegal Magic and Extremely Dangerous Space Travel. \nAll ages welcome — come and be part of the next epic chapter!
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-cressida-cowell/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with... Charlotte Ingham
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Book-ish Abergavenny at 1pm on Saturday 27th September for a book signing with Charlotte Ingham Books will be available to purchase\, please book a free ticket to help us estimate attendance. \nAbout A Match Made in Hell\nIs it possible to resist temptation when you’re falling for the devil? At twenty-one\, Willow was supposed to be turning into a responsible adult\, not proving her mother right when she called her a failure. Now\, thanks to one tiny (if fatal) mishap\, she’s landed in a dimension named Asphodel that looks suspiciously like hell. Determined to redeem herself\, Willow makes a deal with Asphodel’s ruler\, King Sathanas: complete seven tasks\, resist the seven sins\, and he’ll let her return to her human existence. But when Sath is sin itself\, temptation may be hard to resist… \nA sinful fantasy romcom full of heat\, heart and humour\, for readers of The Ex Hex and A Demon’s Guide to Wooing a Witch.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-with-charlotte-ingham/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Signing
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SUMMARY:Book signing with... A.F. Steadman
DESCRIPTION:The wonderful children’s author of the ground-breaking Skandar series comes to Abergavenny to meet fans and sign copies of Skandar!\nA ticket will secure your place in the queue alongside a special edition of Skandar\, book 5 which you can get signed and dedicated by the author herself‘ \nThe most popular fantasy hero since Harry Potter’ Telegraph    \nThe EPIC\, unmissable conclusion to the no.1 bestselling and award-winning SKANDAR series. Be one of the first to read the explosive finale everyone is waiting for and find out what happens to Skandar\, Flo\, Bobby\, Mitchell\, Kenna and their bloodthirsty unicorns. \nDeft\, dazzling and breathlessly exciting – it’s a joy to enter Skandar’s world’ Jonathan Stroud   ‘Utterly thrilling and unputdownable!’ B. B. Alston   ‘Perfect for those who have consumed the Harry Potter books and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy and are looking for their next fictional feast’ The Sunday Times   ‘Magnificent’ Hannah Gold   ‘Brims with wild adventure.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-a-f-steadman/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Signing
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with... Robyn Harris
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Book-ish Abergavenny at 1pm on Saturday 30th August for a book signing with Robyn Harris. Books will be available to purchase\, please book a free ticket to help us estimate attendance. \nAbout Take a Walk on the W-I-L-D Side\nAfter more than a decade of supporting others on their healing journeys\, Robyn Harris felt a deep inner nudge — it was time to share her own. To put into words the experiences\, insights\, and shifts that changed her life\, and to offer them as a guiding light for others who might be feeling lost\, stuck or overwhelmed. So she put pen to paper (well fingertips to keys!) and poured her heart into this book. It weaves together her personal story of healing and transformation\, the birth of W·I·L·D® Wellbeing\, and the powerful perspective-shifting tools she’s come to trust along the way. \nYou’ll find hope\, honesty\, and gentle encouragement on every page — along with practical guidance for reconnecting with your body’s wisdom and walking your own unique path back to freedom\, joy\, and wellbeing. \n 
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-with-robyn-harris/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Signing
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with... Gareth Howell-Jones
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Book-ish Abergavenny at 1pm on Friday 22nd August for a book signing with Gareth Howell-Jones. Books will be available to purchase\, please book a free ticket to help us estimate attendance. \nAbout Your Lowly Hedgehog Knows\nYour Lowly Hedgehog Knows takes a fresh look at the physical world around us and finds it more startling and more heartening than the media would have us believe. It raises many questions\, and even answers some of them. How can a cat be a portal to the universe? How do you write a tree? Why did our ancestors make cave paintings? And\, above all\, what is it that your lowly hedgehog knows \n“DEEPLY SIGNIFICANT AND BEAUTIFUL WORK WHICH WILL LAST” Horatio Clare\, We Came By Sea \n“RICH\, KIND\, FUNNY\, WISE AND SIMPLY RIGHT” Jay Griffiths\, How Animals Heal Us \n“SAYS MORE ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH A LIVING PLANET THAN AN ENTIRE LIBRARY OF OTHER NATURE BOOKS” Mark Cocker\, One Midsummer Day \n“IF THERE WERE EVER AN ANTIDOTE TO THESE CYNICAL\, RUSHING TIMES\, HERE IT IS” Jon Gower\, Birdland
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-with-gareth-howell-jones/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Signing
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with... Jenny Evans
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Book-ish Abergavenny at 1pm on Saturday 9th August for a book signing with Jenny Evans. Books will be available to purchase\, please book a free ticket to help us estimate attendance. \nAbout Don’t Let it Break You\, Honey\nCast in a cult film at the age of eighteen\, Jenny Evans was on the cusp of something extraordinary; a route out of her hometown\, a future of promise. But the new world she was exploring crumbled around her when she was assaulted at a party by a high-profile figure. Jenny reported this crime to the police when she became aware of other allegations of violence against The Famous Man. Shortly after doing so\, details of what she had experienced were printed in a tabloid newspaper. Jenny trained as a journalist herself to try to find out how this happened. In the aftermath of devastation\, she picked up the pieces and fought back against the systems that caused her harm. Her investigation helped expose the jaw-dropping press abuse and police corruption we now call the ‘phone-hacking scandal’. Now training as a lawyer\, Jenny is still working to fight for justice in a system that so horrifically fails its victims. Don’t Let it Break You\, Honey is a reckoning: a personal\, fiercely compelling account of power – who holds it\, who wields it\, who is silenced in the process. It asks urgent questions about fame\, justice\, and the institutions we have no choice but to trust\, while offering something even more profound: hope. Because this is\, above all\, a story about resilience. About finding your voice when the world wants to silence you. And refusing to let them win. \nAs profiled in the Guardian and on Radio 4 Woman’s Hour.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-with-jenny-evans/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with... Rhiannon Lewis
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Book-ish Abergavenny at 1pm on Thursday 7th August for a book signing with Rhiannon Lewis. Books will be available to purchase\, please book a free ticket to help us estimate attendance. \nAbout The Significance of Swans\nJust a few years into the future\, the planet is thrown into turmoil when people start disappearing in their sleep. As more and more people are inexplicably ‘removed’\, infrastructures grind to a halt and eventually the once-unextraordinary Aeronwy finds herself completely alone. After trekking over a hundred miles to her family farm in west Wales\, however\, she comes to realise that her biggest challenge in this brave new world will not be finding food and fuel\, but dealing with another survivor… \n‘A rare\, refreshingly female-focused dystopian thriller\, centred on an ordinary wife and mother surviving in a post-apocalyptic world.’
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/rhiannon-lewis/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with... John Alex Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Book-ish Abergavenny at 11am on Saturday 26th July for a book signing with John Alex Taylor. Books will be available to purchase\, please book a free ticket to help us estimate attendance. \nAbout Angels and Blackbirds\nMam gone. No Mam. No Mam’s house.\nTom’s sister Emmy has almost become one of the family with Rachel\, Beth and Alice. But learning-disabled Emmy lives with her fiercely protective mother. A mother who has let her own fears constrain Emmy’s life and made no attempt to prepare for Emmy’s future. Emmy is thirty-six when her mother dies\, and their rigid home routine has left her unprepared for change. Walk with Emmy as she takes tentative\, scary steps towards independence with support from Rachel and her friends. It takes a while\, but Emmy finds that she has a role to play in other people’s lives. And discovers where she truly belongs. \nThe author has a lifetime’s experience working with people like Emmy. He has walked alongside them as they journey towards empowerment and a sense of their own agency. Sometimes\, the smallest steps are the most significant. Angels and Blackbirds is the sequel to the first book Apples in the Dark.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-with-john-alex-taylor-2/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book signing with... Steve Silk
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Book-ish Abergavenny at 1pm for a book signing with Steve Silk! Books will be available to purchase\, please book a free ticket to help us estimate attendance. \nAbout Go West\nWhat would happen if you got on a bike in central London and didn’t stop riding until you hit the Welsh coast? Steve Silk\, the best-selling author of The Great North Road\, provides the answer over eight days\, 300 miles and rather a lot of hills. Admittedly\, he doesn’t take the direct route. Country lanes replace dual carriageways\, castles and museums are preferred to service stations and there’s even a day-long diversion down the River Wye by canoe. But seen from the saddle\, he gets a much more intimate view of historic towns and cities like Oxford\, Gloucester\, Monmouth and Carmarthen\, as well as the spectacular scenery in between. After all\, which other direction out of London can offer three areas of outstanding natural beauty and two national parks in such short order? Join Steve as he rides solo across England before being joined by three of his cycling buddies for the tougher terrain of Wales. Enriched with legends\, humour and tales of friendship\, Go West is a must for anyone who has dreamt of a cycling adventure.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-with-steve-silk/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with... Ian H Watkins (H from Steps!)
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss your chance to meet actual H from Steps! Ian H Watkins will be at Book-ish in Abergavenny on Saturday 28th June at 10am\, signing his brilliant new children’s book\, Pride and the Rainbow Warriors. It’s also Abergavenny Pride\, so it’s going to be a great morning! \nBooks will be available to purchase (£8.99) \, please book a free ticket to help us estimate attendance. \nIan H Watkins is a celebrated singer\, actor\, artist\, and LGBTQ+ advocate\, best known as “H” from the chart-topping pop group Steps. With a career spanning music\, theatre\, and television\, Ian has always championed authenticity and inclusion. As a father to twin boys and a passionate campaigner for equality\, Ian draws on his own experiences growing up in a small Welsh town to inspire his writing. Pride and the Rainbow Warriors is his debut children’s book — a heartfelt and vibrant story designed to help children understand and celebrate diversity\, LGBTQ+ history\, and the power of being yourself. Ian hopes the book will be a source of joy\, education\, and affirmation for young readers\, and a reminder that everyone deserves to see themselves as the hero of their own story.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-with-ian-h-watkins-h-from-steps/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Signing
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with... Sophie Calon
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Book-ish Abergavenny at 1pm for a book signing with Sophie Calon! Books will be available to purchase\, please book a free ticket to help us estimate attendance. \n“Moving and thought-provoking” – Louis de Bernières\, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin \n“Profoundly life-affirming… A wonderful book.” – Gwyneth Lewis\, author of Nightshade Mother \n“Searing and poetic\, Sophie Calon’s prose sparkles in this elegiac\, gripping memoir.” – Maeve McClenaghan\, author of No Fixed Abode \nAbout Long Going\nAt 50\, Sophie Calon’s father was a celebrated lawyer. At 55\, he was found dead on a garage forecourt at Christmas. Meanwhile he had pinballed between homeless shelters\, prison cells\, and dry-out hostels. His story is a lesson in how alcoholism corrodes a person – and a family. Long Going is a powerful\, unflinching memoir that sings with Calon’s love for her eccentric\, witty father while recounting his drink-fuelled disintegration. In telling his story\, Calon explores her family’s instability and pain as well as her own survival. “Throughout my childhood\, our family’s struggles couldn’t be said aloud. I hope that\, together with readers\, we can all come to deeper understandings about addiction\, grief\, and how we could break destructive cycles\,” Calon says. Long Going is a compelling\, frank and vivacious memoir that casts new light on the complex issue of addiction. \nAbout Sophie Calon\nSophie Calon was born and raised in Cardiff. State-educated\, Sophie studied Classics at Oxford University then trained as a journalist in her hometown. Her writing has been published in The Guardian\, The TLS\, Literary Review\, and the anthology Tales of Two Londons. Her story ‘Cantlos’ was runner-up for the 2021 Wild Writing Prize and published by Short Fiction. Sophie lives with her husband\, daughter\, cats\, and cows on a hilltop near Hay-on-Wye\, where they are returning nature to their surroundings.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-with-sophie-calon/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with... Kathy Biggs
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Book-ish Abergavenny at 1pm for a book signing with Kathy Biggs! Books will be available to purchase\, please book a free ticket to help us estimate attendance. \n‘Kathy Biggs reminds me of Alan Bennett… she walks the fine line between humour and utter sadness in a way that is very rare’ JAN NEWTON \nAbout Attention All Shipping\nWhen you’re feeling lost at sea\, what will it take to guide you home? Grace lives with her father Jack on their crumbling family farm in Wales. Jack\, who has dementia\, lost his son Michael in a tragic accident at sea many years ago. Each night he is soothed by an old recording of the shipping forecast\, lulled to sleep by the belief that Michael is safe. And while he sleeps\, Grace wonders how she ended up back here\, caring for her father rather than living her own life. One day\, a young woman turns up on their farm\, claiming to be Michael’s daughter. But how can this be\, seeing as he died before she was born? United by this shared flicker of hope\, the unlikely trio embark on a journey from the Welsh valleys to Whitby\, which will change all their lives forever…
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-with-kathy-biggs-2/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Signing
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with... Cari Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Book-ish Abergavenny at 1pm for a book signing with Cari Thomas! Books will be available to purchase\, please book a free ticket to help us estimate attendance. \nAbout The Hedge Witch\nAn enchanting new novella set in the magical world of Sunday Times bestseller Threadneedle. Rowan is visiting her aunt – Winne the hedge witch – in the Welsh countryside\, to get back to nature and hone her skills\, as well as taking a break from her annoying sisters and enjoying some peace and quiet. However\, Rowan soon comes to realise that hedges are a serious business and this isn’t quite the opportunity to rest and escape she thought it might be. \nNot only that\, but mysterious events around the town are causing panic in the secret magical community and cowans – non-magical folk – are starting to take notice. Can Rowan hone her hedge craft\, try to make some friends and solve the riddle of the mysterious goings-on\, or is magic about to be revealed to the world … or at least Wales? \nAbout The Burial Witch\nFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Threadneedle comes this enchanting new novella. At home one memorable summer\, Miranda unearths a mysterious suitcase in her attic that once belonged to her late grandmother. Inside\, she finds a strange and unopenable wooden box. Determined to discover what’s inside\, she ends up enlisting the help of Maya\, the owner of a local spiritualist shop\, and is drawn into a world of witchcraft\, magic and temptation. As she tries to keep up appearances as the perfect daughter\, her discovery threatens to tear everything apart\, putting everyone around her in danger. Can she find a way to stay in control or would the box have been better left buried? \nAbout Shadowstitch\nBook 2 in the Threadneedle world. Anna survived the attempt to bind her magic\, but Anna and her coven aren’t free from danger yet. Haunted by her aunt’s death\, living in fear of her curse\, and fated to love the one man she can never have\, the last thing Anna needs is a witch hunt. Now she must conceal her magic once more or risk losing everything. But when deadly hysteria strikes across the capital\, and in her own school\, the coven are left dangerously exposed. Delving deeper into the magical underworld of London\, Anna and her twin sister Effie must find a way to work together to protect the coven. But as the witch hunt intensifies and the hysteria spirals out of control\, can Effie and Anna truly trust each other?
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-with-cari-thomas-2/
LOCATION:Book-ish Abergavenny\, 55a\, Frogmore Street\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5AR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author Signing
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with... Hamza Yassin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book signing with the fabulous Hamza Yassin! Tickets cost £14 and include a copy of Hamza’s Wild World (RRP £14.99). The signing will be at Book-ish in Crickhowell and you will have the opportunity to have your photo taken with Hamza and get your signed book dedicated too! \nAbout Hamza’s Wild World\nThe perfect gift for animal fans! Go on a wild adventure into the animal kingdom with naturalist\, wildlife cameraman and winner of Strictly Come Dancing\, Hamza Yassin. Hamza’s Wild World brings you everything you will ever need to know about the animal kingdom in this fun\, fascinating guide packed with hundreds of funny\, smelly\, awesome\, scary\, revolting\, weird\, cute\, clever and AMAZING facts! With black and white line illustrations\, photos and infographics throughout. Did you know that kestrels can see mouse wee tracks on the ground\, that dolphin mums sing lullabies or that wombats have cube-shaped poo? Do you want to imagine what it’s like to meet a cheetah\, get close to a polar bear or go to sleep with an otter? Then this book is for you! \nA dyslexic-friendly layout\, made in consultation with Dyslexia Scotland\, make this perfect for every child.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-signing-with-hamza-yassin/
LOCATION:Book-ish Crickhowell\, 18 High Street\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD\, Crickhowell\, NP8 1BD
CATEGORIES:Author Signing
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