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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Harper is the author of The Dry\, winner of various awards including the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript\, the 2017 Indie Award Book of the Year\, the 2017 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year Award and the CWA Gold Dagger Award for the best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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260501T193000
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DTSTAMP:20260418T223236
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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: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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260729T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260729T210000
DTSTAMP:20260418T223236
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260903T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260903T210000
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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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