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Cambridge

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Local Author Book launch: Chris Carling 'But Then Something Happened'

Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 6:30 PM

When dementia hits a family they embark on an emotional journey. Destination unknown. 'BUT THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED: A Story of Everyday Dementia' takes us on that emotional journey. Chris originally wrote the journey in the form of a journal during the period of caring for her parents. Out of that has come a wonderful book about love and its many forms.

 Mum, Dad and two very grown up kids. An ordinary family hit hard by dementia. Mum and Dad both fall victim. Different kinds of dementia. Alzheimer's and vascular dementia. Different effects. Daughter, Chris, tells the story, falling into the role of the responsible adult in the family, everyone muddling along in a state of denial until one day 'something happens': a series of crises that lay bare the reality that both parents are losing their minds. How Mum and Dad become Mary and Fred, a couple nearing the end of a long love story. How feelings survive even as minds fail. How Chris takes on the role of go-between to help Mary and Fred sustain their marriage. How a love story can continue even in the Dementia Unit of a residential home. Even to the day Mary and Fred celebrate their Platinum Wedding Anniversary. Warm, intimate, honest and intensely human: depicting dementia not as a tragedy but as a phase of life lived by both sufferers and carers.

Laughter as well as tears as the disease plays out day-to-day. One highly original chapter includes 'Ten scenes of joy and sadness' written as mini-dramas to illustrate how emotions can remain intact as dementia takes its course.

The memoir is in two parts. In Part One Chris tells the dramatic family story while Part Two is more reflective, a chance to stand back and ask questions such as why did we not see all this coming? The final chapter 'Learning from dementia: losses and (a few) gains' gives a lay person's experience of dementia in rich detail.

This event is free, but we must have your name on the enrty list. Please contact events@heffers.co.uk to reserve your place.

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Heffers Book Club: Journey By Moonlight Antal Szerb

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at 6:30 PM

Anxious to please his father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy, Mihaly 'loses' his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic journey.
Book club is free. Please contact David Robinson for more information on David.Robinson@heffers.co.uk

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Jerry Toner talking to Mary Beard about his latest book 'Roman Disasters' at Heffers Book shop.
This event is kindly sponsored by Polity

Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 6:30 PM

In 'Roman Disasters' Jerry Toner looks at how the Romans coped with, thought about, and used disasters for their own ends. Rome has been famous throughout history for its great triumphs. Yet Rome also suffered colossal disasters. From the battle of Cannae, where fifty thousand men fell in a single day, to the destruction of Pompeii, to the first appearance of the bubonic plague, the Romans experienced large scale calamities. Earthquakes, fires, floods and famines also regularly afflicted them.

This insightful book is the first to treat such disasters as a conceptual unity. It shows that vulnerability to disasters was affected by politics, social status, ideology and economics. Above all, it illustrates how the resilience of their political and cultural system allowed the Romans to survive the impact of these life–threatening events. The book also explores the important role disaster narratives played in Christian thought and rhetoric. Engaging and accessible,

Roman Disasters will be enjoyed by students and general readers alike.

Advance Booking Essential.
Tickets £6, with £3 redeemable on the night against author book

Tickets from Heffers tills or payment by credit card on 01223 463220

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Book signing by Quercus Crime Authors - Partners in Crime Tour

Friday, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:00 PM

Three celebrated crime authors are on tour and will be dropping in to Heffers around lunch time to meet fans and sign books!

Come and meet some of our favourite crime novelists: Elly Griffiths has long been a friend of Heffers and her marvellous books are set on the Norfolk Coast; Martin Walker takes us to France and the Dordogne with his Bruno series and last but not in anyway least is Colin Cotterill who takes us across the world to South East Asia for his books.

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Darwins' Grand-daughters, Gwen Raverat & Frances Cornford. Readings and reminiscings by Gwen Raverat's grandson, William Pryor and Anne Harvey

Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 at 6:30 PM

Darwins' grand-daughters were famous women in their own right. Frances Cornford is remembered for her poetry and Gwen Raverat for her art and memoir 'A Period Piece'.

Gwen's grandson - William Pryor - along with, the actress, Anne Harvey is doing a series of talks and dramatic readings from 'Period Piece' and 'Virginia Woolf and The Raverats: A Different Sort of Friendship'.
Her grandson, William Pryor, says:
“I am blessed that Gwen Raverat was my grandmother. Acknowledged as one of the great woman artists of the first half of the last century, her wood-engravings charm us with their accessible beauty and detail.

Gwen was a Cambridge native. There is a blue plaque commemorating her childhood home on Silver Street (now part of Darwin College). She was a fascinating character, born into a hugely talented family. The grand-daughter of Charles Darwin and cousin of Frances Cornford; she counted Virginia Woolf and Rupert Brooke among her close friends; she belonged to the Neo-Pagans and the Bloomsbury Group.

She was also one of the first women to go to Art College in England - she attended the Slade in 1908 against the backdrop of the suffragette movement - where she befriended Stanley Spencer. She then went on to pioneer the modern wood engraving revival; becoming one of the foremost miniaturists of her generation. Parallels have been drawn with Blake.

As if her artistic credentials weren't enough, she also wrote the popular memoir 'Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood', which is still in print now - sixty years after it was first published.



ADVANCE BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL
Tickets cost £6, with £3 off any book purchased on the night.

Tickets are avaliable from Heffers tills or by phoning 01223 463220 and paying by credit card.

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Neil Gaiman comes to the Cambridge Union June 15th!

Saturday, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:30 PM

Neil Gaiman will be talking about his latest book The Ocean at the End of the Lane. This is a brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, and is Neil Gaiman’s first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys. This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real... 

Heffers are providing thechance for you to buy pre-publication date The Ocean at the End of the Lane and have it signed by Neil on the night.

Public tickets available to collect in store from Heffers Bookshop or by telephoning 01223 463 220

Tickets £8

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An Evening with Sarah LeFanu talking about her new book Dreaming of Rose: A Biographer's Journal

Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 at 6:30 PM

Dreaming of Rose: A Biographer's Journal is a fascinating account of a biographical quest and of a personal journey. While working on her biography of the writer and traveller Rose Macaulay, Sarah kept a journal which charts the details of that quest.

This is the companion to Sarah's biography of Dame Rose Macaulay, who wrote 35 books herself, with her masterpiece Towers of Trebizond completed shortly before her death in 1958.

Booking Essential
Tickets cost £6, with £3 off author's book on the night.

Advance Tickets are avaliable from Heffers tills or by phoning 01223 463220 and paying by credit card.

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James Runcie Returns with  The Perils of the Night, the second Sydney Chambers novel.

Wednesday, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:30 PM

‘The clerical milieu is well rendered as an affectionate eye is cast over post-war England - a perfect accompaniment to a sunny afternoon, a hammock and a glass of Pimm's’ Guardian

Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night is the second in the Granchester Mysteries series, which is in development as a series for ITV with Lovely Day. From a deadly village cricket match to a police cell in East Germany everybody’s favourite crime detective is back with six interlocking mysteries to unravel. Sidney Chambers is Father Brown with attitude, Agatha Christie with Cathedrals, and Barbara Pym with sex.

1955. Canon Sidney Chambers, loveable priest and part-time detective, is back. Accompanied by his faithful Labrador, Dickens, and the increasingly exasperated Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is called to investigate the unexpected fall of a Cambridge don from the roof of King's College Chapel, a case of arson at a glamour photographer's studio and the poisoning of Zafar Ali, Grantchester’s finest spin bowler.
Alongside his sleuthing, Sidney has other problems. Can he decide between his dear friend, the glamorous socialite Amanda Kendall and Hildegard Staunton, the beguiling German widow? To make up his mind Sidney takes a trip abroad, only to find himself trapped in a web of international espionage just as the Berlin Wall is going up.


James Runcie is the Head of Literature at The Southbank Centre, an award-winning film-maker and the author of five novels. Sidney Chambers and The Shadow Of Death, the first of 'The Grantchester Mysteries' series, was published in 2012. He lives in London and Edinburgh.

Advance booking is essential as last year this event was a sell out!

Tickets £6, with £3 redeemable against a copy of Perils of the Night purchased on the night.

Tickets from Heffers tills or 01223 463220 for credit card bookings.

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Crime Pays: 3 Crime authors for the price of one ticket!

Thursday, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:30 PM

Come and meet three much acclaimed crime authors, who are published by Mantle this year and whose novels have been shortlisted for seven awards.Between them they have had previous careers as a Detective/Spy, Criminal Barrister/BAFTA nominated TV scriptwriter and City Lawyer so their insights into the real and fictional world are highly topical as well as entertaining.

‘Whodunnit heaven’ Times Literary Supplement

M R Hall - The Coroner, The Disappeared, The Redeemed, The Flight , The Chosen Dead
 
‘a terrific series, meticulously researched, sharply plotted and peopled with sympathetic characters, led by Cooper, who is always aware of the human consequences of human failure.' 
Financial Times


Chris Morgan Jones - An Agent of Deceit and The Jackal’s Share

‘Morgan Jones’ prose is clean and cold, crisp and ominous…this is a debut that definitely stands on its own merits’ 
Observer Thriller of the Month

William Ryan - The Holy Thief, The Bloody Meadow and The Twelfth Department

‘The resemblance to an Agatha Christie country-house mystery (but with an injection of politics) grows as he quizzes a colourful set of suspects, in a novel that confirms Ryan’s talent’
Sunday Times


Advance booking is recommended
Tickets £6 and each ticket allows £3 to be redeemed against an author book purchased on the night.

Tickets from Heffers tills or by telephining 01223 463220 and paying by credit card

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Tim Hayward talks about his new book FOOD DIY How to MakeYour Own Everything'

Thursday, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:30 PM

Tim is the proprietor of the Fitzbillies bakery and restaurant in Cambridge as well as a food writer and broadcaster. He is a contributing writer at the Financial Times and a regular contributor to the Guardian 'Word of Mouth' Food Blog and Radio 4 Food Programme, among others. Tim is the publisher and editor of Fire & Knives, a quarterly magazine of new food writing, and winner of the 'Best Food Magazine'at the 2012 Guild of Food Writers Awards, and the publisher of Gin & It, a quarterly journal of new writing for drinkers and thinkers.

His first book  Food DIY  is the first comprehensive manual for the DIY cook.

Over recent years, across much of the world, people have started rejecting shop bought food and are getting into making it themselves. The DIY food movement is spreading.

But why DIY? Because it's fun, an adventure, thrifty, a great way to get your hands gloriously dirty, and because at a time when skills like baking, preserving and curing are in danger of being lost forever, it's more important than ever to learn how things work. Most importantly though, when you do it yourself you can make sure that all the food you eat is absolutely delicious.

Come and find out for yourself (and maybe get a taste of the good life!)

This event WILL sell out, so get your tickets NOW to avoid disappointment!

Tickets £6 from Heffers tills or 01223 463220 for credit card payments

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Edinburgh

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PATRICK JOYCE: THE STATE OF FREEDOM

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 at 6:30 PM

Blackwell's Bookshop, Cambridge University Press and the School of History, Archaeology and Classics at the University of Edinburgh invite you to celebrate the publication of Patrick Joyce's new book The State of Freedom: A Social History of the British State since 1800

What is the state?

The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state did and how it worked. In his new book Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files and post offices to well-thumbed primers in ancient Greek and Latin and the classrooms and dormitories of public schools and Oxbridge colleges.

The Sate of Freedom is also a history of the 'who' and the 'where' of the state, of the people who ran the state, the government offices they sat in and the college halls they dined in. Patrick Joyce argues that only by considering these things, people and places can we really understand the nature of the modern state. This is both a pioneering new approach to political history in which social and material factors are centre stage, and a highly original history of modern Britain.

This event will be chaired by Professor Donald Bloxham, University of Edinburgh, with contributions from Simon Gunn (Professor of Urban History at Leicester University) and Liz Stanley (Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh).

Patrick Joyce is the Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, 2013-2014/5, and an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester. He is currently a Fellow of the Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, and has been a Visiting Professor at the LSE, Univ. of California Berkeley, and the European University Institute in Florence. His main areas of academic interest are: freedom and liberalism; the nature of the state; power and materiality; rethinking British history; history of London and its Irish diaspora.

This event is ticketed, but tickets are FREE. Tickets are available from the front desk at Blackwell's Bookshop or by phoning 0131 622 8218

For more information or if you would like a signed copy please contact Ann Landmann on 0131 622 8222 or events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk

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NICOLA MORGAN: BLAME MY BRAIN

Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 6:30 PM

Blame My Brain - The Amazing Teenage Brain Explained

Do you wonder what's going on in teenage heads? Worry about their risk-taking, feel exasperated by their sleeping habits, roll your eyes at their emotional volatility? (While ignoring your own.) Perhaps you don’t yet have a teenager but you’ve heard rumourS...
Come and hear the inspirational author Nicola Morgan talk about the new edition of Blame My Brain - The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed. This free event will inform, entertain and reassure. Aimed at adults, but teenagers welcome. A chance to ask questions, share experiences and meet Nicola.
Nicola Morgan has written many critically acclaimed books for young people, including Fleshmarket, Mondays Are Red, Blame My Brain,Know Your Brain,The Highwayman’s Footsteps, The Highwayman’s Curse, Deathwatch and the multi-­‐award-­‐winning Wasted.
She lives in Edinburgh but travels throughout the UK and more widely as an inspirational speaker on topics including the brain and adolescence. She is now writing CHILL – The Teenage Guide to Stress.

Blame My Brain was Shortlisted for the Royal Society's Aventis Prize for Science Books.

“It is very rare that an author succeeds in writing a book for teenagers which is also a 'must read' for their parents and teachers.” TheScotsman

“Nicola Morgan has that rare gift of being able to communicate science and make it fun.”
Professor Simon Baron Cohen

This event is ticketed, but tickets are FREE. Tickets are available from the front desk at Blackwell's Bookshop or by phoning 0131 622 8218

For more information or if you would like a signed copy please contact Ann Landmann on 0131 622 8222 or events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk 

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JOE HILL: NOS4R2

The Pleasance Theatre, EH8 9TJ

Friday, May 31, 2013 at 6:30 PM

Don't miss the opportunity to see horror writer Joe Hill at The Pleasance Theatre for the only Scottish launch of Joe Hill's new book NOS4R2.

He will be taking part in a Q&A as well as taking questions from the audience. Joe will also be reading an extract from his new book and signing for fans. For those who can't make it we are taking pre-paid orders for signed copies.

Joe Hill is the author of novels Heart-Shaped Box, Horns and 20th Century Ghosts which were all well received by horror fiction fans. Horns is currently being made into a movie starting Daniel Radcliffe and his graphic novels The Cape, Road Rage and the award-winning Locke & Key have had fans enthralled. NOS4R2 has now secured Hill's place as top of his generation in the world of horror and supernatural fiction.

NOS4R2

Summer. Massachusetts.

An old Silver Wraith with a frightening history. A story about one serial killer and his lingering, unfinished business.

Anyone could be next.

We're going to Christmasland...

NOS4R2 is an old-fashioned horror novel in the best sense. Claustrophobic, gripping and terrifying, this is a story that will have you on the edge of your seat while you read, and leaving the lights on while you sleep. Will your soul be safe? With this horrific tale of Charles Manx and his Silver Wraith will you enjoy Christmas ever again?

BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL

Tickets are £5 and are available from the front desk at Blackwell's on South Bridge or by telephone for credit card purchases on 0131 622 8218.

For more information or if you would like a signed copy please contact Ellie Wixon on 0131 622 8229 or ellie.wixon@blackwell.co.uk

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Our regular events in May & June

June

Tuesday 4th June, 6pm - Blackwell's Book Quiz  (PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE FROM OUR NORMAL MONDAY)

Monday 10th June, 6pm - Children's Book Group

Monday 20th May, 6pm - The Blackwell's Book Group discusses The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen

 

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Oxford

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Proust for Beginners: In Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Swann's Way

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 7:00 PM

A dramatic reading of selected passages from Swann's Way, the opening volume of Marcel Proust's In search of lost time, introduced by Professor Adam Watt. For further information please visit www.ionianproductionstheatre.com

This is a free event.

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Free IELTS Exam Training with Sam McCarter

Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 7:00 PM

Are you an IELTS Student? Do you want help to get the best IELTS mark you can?

Come along with your questions about the academic version of IELTS for a Question & Answer session with experienced IELTS teacher and author, Sam McCarter. He will be giving top tips on all areas of IELTS and advice on how to achieve exam success.

Sam McCarter's teaching career spans a period of more than 30 years, starting in Sierra Leone, West Africa as a volunteer English teacher. Sam has worked as a consultant editor in the field of Tropical Medicine, notably for The Wellcome Trust and for various other organizations, including the WHO. His latest course book is Direct to IELTS, and also the Macmillan IELTS Skills Apps available from Apple App Store and Google Play.

This is a free event, and will last for 1.5 hours. To book a place, please RSVP to literature.ox@blackwell.co.uk.

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Felix Martin / Money: The Unauthorised Biography

Tuesday, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:00 PM

What is money and where does it come from?

We may think we know the answers, but soon we discover the truth may be something stranger and more complex than we first imagined, as  Felix Martin traverses the globe to radically reconfigure our understanding of man’s greatest invention.

Across the centuries and continents, currency has come in many different forms: sugar in the West Indies, nails in Scotland, tobacco in Virginia, dried cod in Newfoundland. But how did the concept of currency arise? Popular economics will tell us that today’s financial structure evolved from bartering, mankind's oldest economic system. But this, says Martin, is a flawed history. He challenges the conventional perception of what money is and where it comes from. Man may have invented money, but we no longer understand it. In Money, he aims to reinform, and dispel this cloud of misconception.

Felix Martin received a PhD in Economics from Oxford University. He went on to serve on the Committee for the Reform of the Economics Curriculum at the George Soros’ Institute for New Economic Thinking, and currently works running bond investments at a leading London-based fund management firm. He writes a regular column on economics for the New Statesman.

Join us for what promises to be an illuminating evening.

Tickets cost £3 and are available from our Customer Service Department, Blackwell's Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford. Telephone: 01865 333623.

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Why Cavafy?

A celebration of the poetry of C.P.Cavafy with Maria Margaronis, Foteini Dimirouli and Peter Mackridge

Thursday, Jun 6, 2013 at 7:00 PM

One of the most celebrated poets of the 20th century, C.P.Cavafy lived all his life in cosmopolitan Alexandria, wrote in Greek, spoke English as a mother tongue and created a unique poetic universe, elusive, elegiac and erotic. Pitched between memory and longing, history and desire, his work has influenced numerous modern writers and artists, from W.H. Auden, E.M Forster, Bertolt Brecht and Marguerite Yourcenar to David Hockney, Louise Gluck, Mark Doty and Duane Michals.

Eighty years after his death and 150 since his birth, Cavafy's inimitable voice continues to fascinate readers all over the world. To celebrate this double anniversary, the Sub-Faculty of Modern Greek at the University of Oxford is organizing a series of events around the city.

On Thursday 6 June, in association with the European Humanities Research Council and as part of the 'EHRC/Blackwells series on Modern Writers', Blackwells is hosting an evening on the poetry of Cavafy. A student, a journalist and an Oxford professor, will consider Cavafy's legacy, explore the poet's distinct qualities and share personal stories about reading and researching his work.

This is a free event. To reserve a place, please RSVP to literature.ox@blackwell.co.uk.

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Terry Eagleton/ Across the Pond

Monday, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:00 PM

In this warm-hearted and very funny book, Across the Pond, Terry Eagleton explores the language, geography and national character of our transatlantic neighbours. Focusing on how Americans are just as strange as the British, Terry dares to answer questions (being British) we dare not to ask such as  why Americans willingly rise at the crack of dawn, even on Sundays. Join us as Terry will be discussing his book and signing copies.

Terry Eagleton is a Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster Univeristy and the author of more than forty books.

Tickets cost £3 and can be obtained by telephoning or visiting the Customer Service Department in the Norrington Room. 01865 333623

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Creation Theatre's Jekyll and Hyde: Post-show talk with Professor Roger Luckhurst and Dr Neil Cocks

Thursday, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:00 PM

Following the 9pm performance of Jekyll & Hyde on Thursday 20 June there will be a post-show talk and Q&A hosted in Cafe Nero (1st floor).

Guest speakers will include Professor Roger Luckhurst, editor of the OUP edition of Jekyll & Hyde, and Dr Neil Cocks, a 19th century literature professor at Reading University.

All audience members are welcome to join to listen to and contribute to the post-show talk. The talk will last approximately 30 minutes (10.00-10.30pm).

This is a free event, included in the ticket price.

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Tim Lott: A Creative Writing Workshop

Tuesday, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:00 PM

Tim Lott will be running a Creative Writing Workshop on Tuesday 2nd July, 7pm-9pm here at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford.

Tim Lott has written eight books (including White City Blue, Fearless and The Scent of dried Roses and won a number of literary awards. He teaches creative writing at London's

Faber Academy, and the Guardian Academy.

This brief introduction to novel writing will cover the basics principles and tools needed to complete a fully fledged work of fiction. Tim is very highly regarded and his workshops are very popular, if you want to find out a bit more about him, please have a look at his website: http://www.timlott.co.uk/

The cost of attending this workshop is £30. Please register quickly if you are interested as there are only 20 places and it is anticipated that this will be very popular. To register, please email oxford@blackwell.co.uk or telephone 01865 333636

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Blackwell's and Opera Anywhere Present Gilbert & Sullivan Singers' Masterclasses

On Tuesday 21st and Tuesday 28th May at 7:30pm

Blackwell's and Opera Anywhere will also be hosting singer's master-classes, that will concentrate entirely on Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, taking place on Tuesday 21st and Tuesday 28th May at 7:30pm.  Budding young soloists will be trying their G&S arias out in 20 minute sessions with members of Opera Anywhere's professional cast, who will be giving advice and critiques- giving a taster of what is to come in the G&S shows for the rest of the week. Whether you're an aspiring opera singer yourself, or simply a lover of Gilbert & Sullivan, we're certain our Gilbert & Sullivan Master-classes will be prove to be fantastically entertaining evenings.

For £5 audience tickets for the Opera Master-classes, book online at www.OperaAnywhere.com or call 0844 8700 887.

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Blackwell's Walking Tours

The Literary Tour

Tuesdays at 2pm and Thursdays at 11am

Join the Literary Tour and discover the University and city where authors such as Graham Greene, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Buchan, William Golding and T.S. Eliot lived and learned.

The Inklings Tour

Wednesdays at 11.45am

A must for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Nevill Coghill and other members of the Inklings group. Visit their favourite haunts from their days at Oxford.

The Music Tour

Fridays at 2pm

An Historic Tour for all music lovers, around the beautiful musical sights of Oxford. Learn of the first music degree awarded at Oxford in the 15th Century. Discover the connections of Handel,. Haydn, Walton, Beecham and Parry with Oxford and the University, and much, much more.

Tickets are £8 (concessions £7).

Tours run from Tuesday 16th April to Friday 25th October. To book, call 01865 333602 or email: oxford@blackwell.co.uk

Blackwell's Walking Tour depart from the foyer area in the main entrance, past the White Horse pub. To purchase tickets please go to the General Desk till point on the Ground Floor.

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Group 2012 Writers' Group

Interested in joining a group for writers?

We welcome new members!

Group 2012 is a writing group which meets monthly in Oxford. It was established in January 2012 as a collaboration between Blackwell’s Bookshop, Cherry Mosteshar of The Oxford Editors and Ilaria Meliconi of Hersilia Press.

Meetings are varied and include talks by authors, discussion, publishing and book trade workshops and writing critique.

There is a membership charge of £20 per year to cover our costs. Membership allows you to come to all meetings for free. If you are not a member, you can still attend the meetings for an entry charge of £3.

If you have any questions or need further information please don’t hesitate to contact us at one of the e-mail addresses below:

cherry@theoxfordeditors.com

oxford@blackwell.co.uk

group2012.wordpress.com

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Blackwell's and Opera Anywhere Present Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado & Pirates of Penzance

From Thursday 23rd May until Saturday 1st June

Blackwell's Bookshop and Opera Anywhere are proud to present a two week celebration of Gilbert & Sullivan, taking place in Blackwell's world-renowned Norrington Room.

From Thursday 23rd May until Saturday 1st June, the Philosophy section of the Norrington Room will be transformed into our very own Opera House, as Opera Anywhere perform The Mikado from Thursday 23rd May to Saturday 25th May at 7:30pm and then The Pirates of Penzance from Thursday 30th May until Saturday 1st June at 7:30pm. With talented opera singers performing some of Gilbert and Sullivan's best loved classics, in one of Oxford's most magical venues, opera enthusiasts and book lovers alike are in for a treat.

Opera Anywhere are known for performing unique versions of operas, both old and new, in unusual and interesting locations. With over 3 miles worth of books, the Norrington Room will certainly provide the perfect setting for a night of Gilbert & Sullivan's finest. As Blackwell's Music Shop has moved over to the flagship Blackwell's shop on Broad Street, Opera Anywhere's series of performances form one of the first in what we hope will be a long line of music events in the Norrington Room.
Make sure to book your tickets in advance for what promises to be a spectacular run of performances.

Tickets for The Mikado and Pirates of Penzance range from £10 to £16. For the Box Office, please call the Creation Theatre Box Office (number 01865 766266 from 10am-6pm Monday – Friday) or buy online at www.OperaAnywhere.com.

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Blackwell's and Creation Theatre Present Jekyll & Hyde

8th June - 6th July

Blackwell's are proud to announce that once again, after the success of previous productions such as The Odyssey and Doctor Faustus, Creation Theatre will be treading the boards in our very own Norrington Room, with their production of the well-loved classic, Jekyll & Hyde. Saved by their most generous benefactors and supporters, following the wettest summer in 100 years, Creation will return with their forthcoming production of Jekyll & Hyde. This show will see the company exploring a new approach with an intimate performance to 100 guests each night.

The Norrington Room will be transformed into a spectacular theatre as Creation delight and astound with a story of Good vs. Evil in the body of one man. Taking as inspiration the esteemed work of one of our greatest authors, Robert Louis Stevenson, one actor will embody every role in this tale of gothic horror. Refreshments will be available on the evening, and our expert booksellers will be on hand, should a book take your fancy from the Norrington Room's almost 3 miles of shelving.

The show will run from Saturday 8th June to Saturday 6th July. Dates and times: Tuesday & Wednesday, 7:30pm. Thursday – Saturday, 7:30pm & 9pm. Running time of one hour. Tickets are available in advance or on the door. Please be aware that seats are limited to 100 per performance, and therefore booking is advised. Seating is allocated. Performances are suitable for adults and children from the age of 8. Seated tickets are £16, standing tickets are £10. Book your ticket online at www.creationtheatre.co.uk, or call the Box Office on 01865 766266.

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Portsmouth

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Centre for Studies in Literature Public Lecture: 

Judith Flanders - The Invention of Murder

University of Portsmouth, Portland Building

 

Friday, May 31, 2013 at 6:00 PM

Modern culture is fascinated by accounts of crime and criminality, whether these be TV detective dramas, popular crime novels, or the reportage of sensational incidents of crime. But while we like to consider ourselves as a modern society liberated from supposedly 'repressive' Victorian moralities, we often overlook the fact that much of our thinking about crime and its representations owes a great deal to the later nineteenth century.

This is a free event but tickets must be booked in advance at: http://inventionofmurder.eventbrite.com/.

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Portsmouth Thought:  Damian Barr

Maggie and Me

Zodiac Gallery, Portsmouth Guildhall

Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:00 PM

Tickets available from  http://portsmouththoughtbarr.eventbrite.co.uk/  by donation (suggested £3.00 - £5.00) or Blackwell's in Portsmouth 023 92832813