Events at The Bookshop
An Evening with Alison Weir
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We are thrilled to announce an evening with Alison Weir on her new novel, 'Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen: Six Tudor Queens 5', as part of our series of online events this September and October, bringing Author Events to you at home LIVE via Zoom.
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A NAIVE YOUNG WOMAN AT THE MERCY OF HER AMBITIOUS FAMILY.
At just nineteen, Katheryn Howard is quick to trust and fall in love.
She comes to court. She sings, she dances. She captures the heart of the King.
Henry declares she is his rose without a thorn. But Katheryn has a past of which he knows nothing. It comes back increasingly to haunt her. For those who share her secrets are waiting in the shadows, whispering words of love... and blackmail.
KATHERYN HOWARD
THE FIFTH OF HENRY'S QUEENS.
HER STORY.
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An Evening with Sonia Purnell
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We are thrilled to announce an evening with Sonia Purnell on her book, 'A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of Virginia Hall, WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy,' as part of our series of online events this September and October, bringing Author Events to you at home LIVE via Zoom.
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An astounding story of heroism, spycraft, resistance and personal triumph over shocking adversity.
In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon, Vichy France. Her papers say she is a journalist. Her wooden leg is disguised by a determined gait and a distracting beauty. She is there to spark the resistance.
By 1942 Virginia Hall was the Gestapo's most urgent target, having infiltrated Vichy command, trained civilians in guerrilla warfare and sprung soldiers from Nazi prison camps. The first woman to go undercover for British SOE, her intelligence changed the course of the war - but her fight was still not over.
This is a spy history like no other, telling the story of the hunting accident that disabled her, the discrimination she fought and the secret life that helped her triumph over shocking adversity.
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An Evening with Carolyn Kirby
We are thrilled to announce an evening with Carolyn Kirby on her new novel, 'When We Fall', as part of our series of online events this September and October, bringing Author Events to you at home LIVE via Zoom.
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England, 1943. Lost in fog, pilot Vee Katchatourian is forced to make an emergency landing where she meets enigmatic RAF airman Stefan Bergel, and then can't get him out of her mind.
In occupied Poland, Ewa Hartman hosts German officers in her father's guest house, while secretly gathering intelligence for the Polish resistance. Mourning her lover, Stefan, who was captured by the Soviets at the start of the war, Ewa is shocked to him on the street one day.
Haunted by a terrible choice he made in captivity, Stefan asks Vee and Ewa to help him expose one of the darkest secrets of the war. But it is not clear where everyone's loyalties lie until they are tested...
Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day and based on WWII war atrocity the Katyn massacre, When We Fall is a moving story of three lives forever altered by one fatal choice.
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The Last Great Clash of WW2:
An Evening with Saul David
We are thrilled to announce an evening with Saul David on his new book, 'Crucible of Hell: Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of the Second World War', as part of our series of online events this September and October, bringing Author Events to you at home LIVE via Zoom.
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From award-winning historian Saul David, an action-packed and powerful new narrative of the Battle of Okinawa – the last great clash of the Second World War, and one that had profound consequences for the modern world.
Using graphic eyewitness accounts and declassified documents from archives in three continents, Saul David illuminates a shocking chapter of history that is too often missing from Western-centric narratives of the Second World War.
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Uncrowned Queen:
An Evening with Nicola Tallis
We are thrilled to announce an evening with Nicola Tallis on her new book, 'Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort Tudor Matriarch', as part of our series of online events this September and October, bringing Author Events to you at home LIVE via Zoom.
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The first comprehensive biography in three decades of Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the Tudor Dynasty.
During the bloody and uncertain days of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort was married to the half brother of the Lancastrian king Henry VI. A year later she endured a traumatic birth that brought her and her son close to death. She was just thirteen years old.
As the battle for royal supremacy raged between the houses of Lancaster and York, Margaret, who was descended from Edward III and thus a critical threat, was forced to give up her son - she would be separated from him for fourteen years. But few could match Margaret for her boundless determination and steely courage. Surrounded by enemies and conspiracies in the Yorkist court, Margaret remained steadfast, only just escaping the headman's axes as she plotted to overthrow Richard III in her efforts to secure her son the throne.
Against all odds, in 1485 Henry Tudor was victorious on the battlefield at Bosworth. Through Margaret's royal blood Henry was crowned Henry VII, King of England, and Margaret became the most powerful woman in England - Queen in all but name.
Nicola Tallis's gripping account of Margaret's life, one that saw the final passing of the Middle Ages, is a true thriller, revealing the life of an extraordinarily ambitious and devoted woman who risked everything to ultimately found the Tudor dynasty.
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An Evening with Ned Palmer
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We are thrilled to announce an evening with Ned Palmer on his book, 'A Cheese Monger's History of the British Isles', as part of our series of online events this September and October, bringing Author Events to you at home LIVE via Zoom.
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Shortlisted for the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards for 2020
Every cheese tells a story. Whether it's a fresh young goat's cheese or a big, beefy eighteen-month-old Cheddar, each variety holds the history of the people who first made it, from the builders of Stonehenge to medieval monks, from the Stilton-makers of the eighteenth-century to the factory cheesemakers of the Second World War.
Cheesemonger Ned Palmer takes us on a delicious journey across Britain and Ireland and through time to uncover the histories of beloved old favourites like Cheddar and Wensleydale and fresh innovations like the Irish Cashel Blue or the rambunctious Renegade Monk. Along the way we learn the craft and culture of cheesemaking from the eccentric and engaging characters who have revived and reinvented farmhouse and artisan traditions. And we get to know the major cheese styles - the blues, washed rinds, semi-softs and, unique to the British Isles, the territorials - and discover how best to enjoy them, on a cheeseboard with a glass of Riesling, or as a Welsh rarebit alongside a pint of Pale Ale.
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