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A Literary Lunch with Adam Nicolson
Wed, May 07
|East Grinstead
Adam Nicolson joins us for a delicious lunch at Aqua Restaurant (just next to The Bookshop). He will speak and answer questions after the main course, and will be happy to personalise your special edition hardback copy of "Bird School' (included in the ticket price as is your two course lunch).
Time & Location
May 07, 2025, 12:45 PM – 2:30 PM
East Grinstead, 22 High St, East Grinstead RH19 3AW, UK
About the event
Adam will talk about coming to know and understand the birds around him at home in Sussex. All the usual beauties, which he has spent most of his life ignoring or taking for granted — an attitude which of course lies behind our casual destruction of them over the last 60 years — but which, if you only take the trouble to look and listen, turn out to be full of marvels.
"a feast for mind and soul" (Isabella Tree)
“Adam Nicolson has created a unique voice, a form of narrative non-fiction that includes elements of memoir but also of intellectual depth and knowledge, whilst always retaining an almost painterly attention to detail and to language. He is an emotional writer, but also someone who is able to deftly navigate the depths and the shallows, the sublime and the intimate, the scholarly and the familial – indeed navigation itself seems…