This April - Book Launches
Book Launch: David Belbin’s Death in the Family
Saturday April 2nd, 2.00pm
Venue: Basford Library, NG6 OAR
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David Belbin’s fourth Nottingham-based Bone and Cane crime novel.
1.45pm: Refreshments
2.00pm: Memoirist Graham Caveney will introduce the event
and interview David, who will also read from the new novel and take questions
from the audience.
Set during the 2001 General Election, Death in the Family is
about the unexplained death of an Asian dentist and has scenes set in and near
Basford. Nick Cane is suspected of murder whilst Sarah Bone MP seems set to
lose her seat. An Investigative journalist is determined to get to the bottom
of the connection between the two.
A Free event.
Book online with Eventbrite.
Book Launch: Cathy Grindrod’s Surrender
Tuesday April 19th, 7.00pm
Venue: St Martin’s Church in Bilborough, NG8 3BH
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Cathy Grindrod's book of poetry will be launched in a beautiful setting where Cathy has been teaching writing (and where murals by the Nottingham artist Evelyn Gibbs have recently been recovered).
In Surrender, Cathy explores how we connect and disconnect
in the ‘Great Game’ of life – with the past, place, work, nature, the animal
world and ultimately, with others – in an exploration of what it means to be
human.
Refreshments provided
Cost: 0 - £12
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Book Launch: Andrew Graves’s Not Dancing with Ingrid Pitt
Tuesday April 26th, 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Venue: West Bridgford Library
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Not Dancing with Ingrid Pitt is an honest and personal collection of poetry, capturing missed opportunities, those unstructured moments and nostalgic, half recalled memories which skulk at the periphery of an increasingly confusing current world state. Graves circumnavigates his modern worries and presents his own uniquely crafted narratives which utilise estranged family members, eccentric strangers and forgotten Hollywood cast-offs in his fascinating line up of unconventional protagonists.
A Free event
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Book Launch: Christian Weaver’s The Law in 60 Seconds
Wednesday 27th April, 5.00pm – 7.00pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Newton Building, Nottingham Trent
University, NG1 4BU
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Join Christian Weaver in conversation, for the launch of his new book The Law in 60 Seconds, in which the author, a lawyer, brings together everything you need to know to claim your space in the world. Whether you are arguing with your landlord, looking for a refund, going to a protest or being harassed, this essential guide illuminates the full power of the law, and arms you with your rights. The event will be followed by drinks and canapés.
A Free event
Book online here.
Book launch: Graham Caveney’s On Agoraphobia
Thursday, 28th April, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Venue: Antenna, 9A Beck St, NG1 1EQ
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Bar available prior to the event and at the break.
7.00pm Graham Caveney will be interviewed by Colin Wright,
Associate Professor of Critical Theory at the Univeristy of Nottingham and a
practicing psychoanalyst.
When Graham was in his early twenties he began to suffer
from what was eventually diagnosed as agoraphobia. What followed were decades
of managing his condition and learning to live within the narrow limits it
imposed on his life: no motorways, no dual carriageways, no shopping centres,
limited time outdoors.
On Agoraphobia looks at what it means to go through life
with an anxiety disorder that evades easy definition.
Eventbrite booking details will be available via Five Leaves Bookshop’s events’ page. Booking essential.
Advance Notice
Book Launch: John Baird’s Follow the Moon and Stars
Thursday May 5th, 7.00pm – 8.45pm
Venue: West Bridgford Library, NG2 6AT
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7.00pm: Bar available
7.30pm: Hannah Trevarthen, Nottingham UNESCO City of
Literature’s new Director, will introduce the author John Baird for an
illustrated talk on Nottinghamshire’s literary heritage and his new book Follow the Moon and Stars – a literary journey through Nottinghamshire.
8.15pm: John Baird will be joined by Patrick Limb, Chair
Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, for a Q&A session.
John will deliver an illustrated talk as he tracks down some of
the writers, past and present, through the places they lived, worked, wrote
about and were inspired by. Amongst the pubs, churches, grand houses and
theatres are more unlikely destinations to have influenced our authors, poets,
playwrights, screenwriters, booksellers, publishers and historians.
Discount will be available on the night, on this book and on
other books by Nottinghamshire writers.
A Free event
Eventbrite booking details. More info here.
I will blog more about this event with a new post next
month.
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