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SUMMARY:Book & Film Club - 1984
DESCRIPTION:The Book \nNineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel by George Orwell\, published in 1949. Set in a future where Great Britain—now “Airstrip One”—is part of the totalitarian superstate Oceania\, the story portrays a society under constant surveillance\, ruled by Big Brother and enforced by the Thought Police. Through the Ministry of Truth\, the Party manipulates information\, rewrites history\, and suppresses individuality. Orwell described the book as a satire and a warning about the dangers of centralised power and the distortion of truth. The novel has become a classic\, contributing terms like “Big Brother”\, “Newspeak”\, “doublethink”\, and “Thought Police” to common language. \nThe Film \nWritten and directed by Michael Radford\, based upon George Orwell’s novel of the same name. Starring John Hurt\, Richard Burton\, Suzanna Hamilton and Cyril Cusack\, Nineteen Eighty-Four was Burton’s last screen appearance; it was released two months after his death and is dedicated to him.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-film-club-1984/
LOCATION:The King’s Arms\, 29 Nevill St\,\, Abergavenny\, NP7 5AA
CATEGORIES:Film & Book Club
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SUMMARY:*SOLD OUT* Film and Book Club - Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
DESCRIPTION:Our first pick for 2026 is Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote — a stylish\, bittersweet tale of love\, freedom\, and identity in 1940s New York. After reading the novella\, we’ll watch the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn and explore how Capote’s Holly Golightly became one of cinema’s most iconic characters. \nTickets include a paperback copy of the book to be collected at our ABERGAVENNY store.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/film-and-book-club-breakfast-at-tiffanys-by-truman-capote/
LOCATION:The King’s Arms\, 29 Nevill St\,\, Abergavenny\, NP7 5AA
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SUMMARY:*SOLD OUT* Film and Book Club (A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)
DESCRIPTION:Special Christmas event with the Macmillan collector’s edition of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale. \nWe’ll be watching the 1951 film “Scrooge” starring Alistair Sim and Jack Warner. Although\, if there is a groundswell of support for “The Muppet Christmas Carol”\, we are happy to change our plans! \nJoin us for mulled wine\, mince pies\, and festive nibbles. \nWe will also invite you to join in an Icelandic Christmas tradition called Jolbokflod.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/film-and-book-club-a-christmas-carol-by-charles-dickens/
LOCATION:The King’s Arms\, 29 Nevill St\,\, Abergavenny\, NP7 5AA
CATEGORIES:Film & Book Club
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SUMMARY:Film & Book Club - Flowers for Algernon
DESCRIPTION:Considered one of the all time classic science fiction stories (256pp)\, it is a heart-wrenching tale which transcends the genre. Have tissues at hand as it is emotional! There are three adaptations which were all well received by critics but we will be showing the first adaptation (1968) entitled ‘Charly’\, which won a Best Actor Oscar for its lead\, Cliff Robertson. \nThe Book \nCharlie Gordon\, IQ 68\, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone’s jokes – until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon\, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceded his\, fades and dies\, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary. Winner of the 1960 Hugo Award for Best Short Story\, and subsequently expanded into a Hugo-nominated novel\, Flowers for Algernon earned Daniel Keyes the honour of SFWA Author Emeritus in 2000 for his contribution to Science Fiction and Fantasy. \n‘Heartbreaking and beautiful. Required reading\, as far as I am concerned’ – Wil Wheaton’A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . \n. heartbreaking\, and utterly\, completely brilliant’ – The Guardian’Excellent . . \n. extremely moving’ – The Encyclopedia of Science FictionWelcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction \nThe Film \nCliff Robertson earned an Academy Award for playing the title role based on the novel by Daniel Keyes entitled “Flowers for Algernon.” His portrayal is heartbreaking and you can’t help but feel for the character who is the butt of so many jokes by his so-called colleagues and friends at his workplace\, a bakery. Seinfeld’s Barney Martin and Dick Van Patten play his co-workers. The divine Claire Bloom (who should be made a Dame) is the sympathetic attractive teacher. Ruth White plays the landlady in one of the last film roles before her death in 1969 from cancer. The setting is filmed on location in Boston\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/film-book-club-flowers-for-algernon/
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SUMMARY:Book & Film Club - The Hound of the Baskervilles
DESCRIPTION:The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The classic Sherlock Holmes tale (208pp) for Halloween. The movie is most likely the 1939 Basil Rathbone (surely the best Sherlock?) \nThe Book \nThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle”Mr Holmes\, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!”The terrible spectacle of the beast\, the fog of the moor\, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog\, rationalism against the supernatural\, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby\, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles’ heir comes to an equally gruesome end. \nThe Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination. The Penguin English Library – 100 editions of the best fiction in English\, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. \nThe Film \nSir Arthur Conan Doyle’s best loved Sherlock Holmes work\, The Hound of the Baskervilles\, gets a beautifully photographed presentation on the screen by director Sidney Lanfield. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce team in their first Holmes film as the world’s original reasoning detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson. Sir Henry Baskerville (Richard Greene) returns from abroad to take up residence in the family estate on the eerie moors in west England. But the foggy landscape appears to be haunted by an invisible creature with demonic powers bent on destroying Sir Henry. Holmes must use all his powers of deduction to solve the case. Although other actors have played Holmes and Watson\, Rathbone and Bruce are the undisputed kings. Rathbone brings his rapier profile and fiery intensity to Holmes and Bruce plays Watson like an adoring and faithful puppy dog. They made other adaptations of Holmes together but The Hound of the Baskervilles is the strongest Conan Doyle story and makes for the best movie in the Holmes series. \n 
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-film-club-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/
LOCATION:The King’s Arms\, 29 Nevill St\,\, Abergavenny\, NP7 5AA
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SUMMARY:*SOLD OUT* Film & Book Club – On the Black Hill
DESCRIPTION:Each month we will take a book that has an interesting film adaptation and spend the evening comparing the two. The ticket price includes a copy of the book (which can be collected from our Abergavenny bookshop once you’ve booked your place) and the film screening. \nSeptember’s pick is…On the Black Hill  by Bruce Chatwin. \nAbout the book\nOn the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed\, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience. \nFilm >>> The 1987 film was directed by Andrew Grieve and was filmed in and around Abergavenny. \nThe Kings Arms\, Abergavenny\nTuesday 30th September\, 7pm start
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/film-book-club-on-the-black-hill/
LOCATION:The King’s Arms\, 29 Nevill St\,\, Abergavenny\, NP7 5AA
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SUMMARY:Film & Book Club – The 39 Steps
DESCRIPTION:Each month we will take a book that has an interesting film adaptation and spend the evening comparing the two. The ticket price includes a copy of the book (which can be collected from our Abergavenny bookshop once you’ve booked your place) and the film screening. \nAugust’s pick is…The 39 Steps by John Buchan. \nAbout the book\n‘My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor’. Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat\, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers\, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers. \nFilm >>> The 39 Steps is a 1959 British thriller directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Kenneth More and Taina Elg. A remake of the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film\, it was the first colour version of the Buchan tale and unlike the mainly studio-based original\, it features extensive location shooting. \nThe Kings Arms\, Abergavenny\nTuesday 26th August\, 7pm start
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/film-book-club-the-39-steps/
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SUMMARY:Book & Film Club - A Month in the Country by JL Carr
DESCRIPTION:Each month we will take a book that has an interesting film adaptation and spend the evening comparing the two. The ticket price includes a copy of the book (which can be collected from our Abergavenny bookshop once you’ve booked your place) and the film screening. \nJuly’s pick is…A Month in the County by J.L Carr \nA damaged survivor of the First World War\, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and belief in the future. \nNow an old man\, Birkin looks back on the idyllic summer of 1920\, remembering a vanished place of blissful calm\, untouched by change\, a precious moment he has carried with him through the disappointments of the years. Adapted into a film starring Colin Firth\, Natasha Richardson and Kenneth Branagh\, A Month in the Country traces the slow revival of the primeval rhythms of life so cruelly disorientated by the Great War. \n  \nThe Kings Arms\, Abergavenny\nTuesday 22nd July\, 7pm start
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/book-film-club-a-month-in-the-country-by-jl-carr/
LOCATION:The King’s Arms\, 29 Nevill St\,\, Abergavenny\, NP7 5AA
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SUMMARY:An evening with...John Niven and James Dean Bradfield
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to welcome John Niven back to Abergavenny in celebration of his new novel\, The Fathers. John will be in conversation with James Dean Bradfield of The Manic Street Preachers. \nScalpel-sharp yet laced with compassion\, this wry look at modern fatherhood finds the lives of two very different dads brought together by tragedy. \nJohn joins us to discuss his work with a special guest…. James Dean Bradfield lead vocalist of Manic Street Preachers. The event includes and audience Q&A\, followed by a signing. \nAbout The Fathers\nIn a busy maternity ward\, first-time father Dan meets Jada\, a dad welcoming his fifth – no\, sixth? child into the world. Dan and Jada come from very different places: both called Glasgow. Dan is a successful TV writer with a townhouse in the West End and a shiny Tesla ready to drive his wife and baby home. Jada is a\, small-time criminal who is already planning how to separate Dan from some of the luxuries Jada has never been able to enjoy in his tiny flat in a Brutalist sixties council block. \nBoth men find that the birth of their sons has fired their ambitions. Dan plans to walk away from his saccharine TV success and finally knuckle down to writing that novel. While\, for Jada\, it’s the opportunity for one last get-rich-quick scheme – ripping off a local airport. When tragedy occurs\, their worlds are brought closer than either could have imagined – close enough that it could mean destruction for both of them. \nAbout the author\nJOHN NIVEN is the author of eleven novels\, including Kill Your Friends\, The Second Coming and Straight White Male. He has written a memoir\, O Brother\, and as a screenwriter his credits include The Trip\, Kill Your Friends and How to Build a Girl.
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/an-evening-with-john-niven/
LOCATION:The King’s Arms\, 29 Nevill St\,\, Abergavenny\, NP7 5AA
CATEGORIES:Author Evenings
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SUMMARY:Film & Book Club - The Body/Stand By Me
DESCRIPTION:Each month we will take a book that has an interesting film adaptation and spend the evening comparing the two. The ticket price includes a copy of the book (which can be collected from our Abergavenny bookshop once you’ve booked your place) and the film screening. \nJune’s pick is…The Body by Stephen King – a novella that was adapted into the 1986 coming-of-age film Stand By Me\, directed by Rob Reiner. \nPlease note there is a change of day – ‘film and book club’ will now be on a Tuesday. \nThe Kings Arms\, Abergavenny\nTuesday 24th June\, 7pm start
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/film-book-club-the-body-stand-by-me/
LOCATION:The King’s Arms\, 29 Nevill St\,\, Abergavenny\, NP7 5AA
CATEGORIES:Film & Book Club
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SUMMARY:Film & Book Club - The Man Who Planted Trees
DESCRIPTION:Each month we will take a book that has an interesting film adaptation and spend the evening comparing the two. The ticket price includes a copy of the book (which can be collected from our Abergavenny bookshop once you’ve booked your place) and the film screening. \nMay’s pick is…The Man who Planted Trees by Jean Giono \nA short animated film directed by Frédéric Back. It is based on Jean Giono’s 1953 short story The Man Who Planted Trees. narrated by Christopher Plummer. The film won the Academy Award (1988) for Best Animated Short Film. \nThe Kings Arms\, Abergavenny\nMonday 19th May\, 7pm start
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/film-book-club-the-man-who-planted-trees/
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SUMMARY:Film & Book Club - Small Things Like These
DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to launch our new Film & Book Club! \nEach month we will take a book that has an interesting film adaptation and spend the evening comparing the two. The ticket price includes a copy of the book (which can be collected from our Abergavenny bookshop once you’ve booked your place) and the film screening. \nApril’s pick is… \nThe book Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan and the film version directed by Tim Mielants and starring Cillian Murphy\nWhere: The Kings Arms\, Abergavenny\nWhen: Monday 28th April\, 7pm start
URL:https://www.book-ish.co.uk/event/film-book-club-small-things-like-these/
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