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SUMMARY:An Evening with Sam Leith - Putney
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening in conversation with Sam Leith as he discusses his new book\, The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading.\n\n\nJoin us for an evening in conversation with Sam Leith as he discusses his brilliant new book\, The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading. \nDo you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? \nIn a pioneering history of children’s literature\, from the ancient world to the present day\, Sam Leith reveals the magic of our most cherished stories\, and the ways in which they have shaped and consoled entire generations. Excavating the complex lives of beloved writers\, Leith offers a humane portrait of a genre – one acutely sensitive to its authors’ distinct contexts. \nSam Leith is Literary Editor of the Spectator. He has also written extensively for the Guardian\, TLS\, Financial Times\, Telegraph and Daily Mail\, and was a judge for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. \n‘Sam Leith has been encyclopedic and forensic in this journey through children’s books. It’s a joy for anyone who cares or wonders why we have children’s literature.’ MICHAEL ROSEN \n‘Profoundly erudite and gloriously entertaining\, this is the most purely enjoyable literary history I have ever read.’ TOM HOLLAND
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Rachel Blackmore - Putney
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to be joined by Rachel Blackmore for a very special evening to discuss her debut Novel\, Costanza.\n\n\nWe are delighted to be joined by Rachel Blackmore for a very special evening to discuss her debut Novel\, Costanza. \nRome\, 1636. History calls her a Muse. Temptress. Fallen woman. This is her story.In the scorched city of Rome\, the cobbled streets hum with gossip and sin. Costanza Piccolomini is a respectable young wife – until she meets Gianlorenzo Bernini\, the famed sculptor and star of Roman society\, whose jet-black gaze matches his dark temper. From the second they set eyes upon each other\, a fatal attraction is born. \nBased on a true story\, Costanza is a dizzying and sensual historical novel that brings to life a feminist icon who has been written out of history. This utterly addictive tale of desire and betrayal is perfect for fans of The Marriage Portrait and The Miniaturist. \n‘From the first page I was hooked. Love\, lust\, fury and betrayal leap from the page. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to read a true feminist retelling’ LOUISE HARE‘I loved it… Rich and evocative in its portrayal of 17th Century Rome. A fabulous\, evocative novel’ ELIZABETH CHADWICK
URL:https://putney.news/event/an-evening-with-rachel-blackmore-putney/
LOCATION:Waterstones Putney\, 5 Exchange Centre Putney High Street\, London\, England\, SW15 1TW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:An Evening With Sarah Brooks - Putney
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a magical evening with Sarah Brooks to discuss her debut novel\, The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to The Wastelands.\n\n\nJoin us for a magical evening with Sarah Brooks to discuss her debut novel\, The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to The Wastelands\, a stunning historical fantasy novel set on a grand express train as it embarks on a dangerous journey across a magical landscape. \nIt is said there is a price that every passenger must pay. A price beyond the cost of a ticket. \nFollowing an unforgettable group of passengers on the way through the barren wasteland between Beijing and Moscow\, Brookes’ enchanting period novel is a thrilling tale of mystery and danger on the Trans-Siberian Express. \n“A journey both unnerving and powerful\, which thunders along at breathtaking speed\, abounding with mysteries and marvels.” —SAMANTHA SHANNON\, New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree \n“I was completely transported by this book\, lost in its world and mysteries\, astounded by its beauty\, and full of admiration for its humanity. I loved every second I spent with it\, and urge everybody to pick up a copy. It’s an astonishing journey.”—STUART TURTON\, bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
URL:https://putney.news/event/an-evening-with-sarah-brooks-putney/
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SUMMARY:Lost to the Sea: An Evening with Lisa Woollett
DESCRIPTION:An evening of conversation with Lisa Woollett\, a naturalist and author\, to celebrate the release of her newest book: Lost to the Sea. \nOn a series of coastal walks\, Lisa Woollett takes us on an illuminating journey\, bringing to life the places where mythology and reality meet at the very edges of Britain and Ireland. \nFrom Bronze Age settlements on the Isles of Scilly and submerged prehistoric forests in Wales\, to a Victorian amusement park on the Isle of Wight and castles in the air off County Clare\, Lisa draws together archaeology\, meetings with locals and tales from folklore to reveal how the sea has forged\, shaped and often overwhelmed these landscapes and communities. \n‘An immersive and lyrically personal journey through deep-time and modern tides’ RAYNOR WINN \n‘Wondrous\, elegant and haunting\, Lost to the Sea is a fascinating alternative history of the fractured\, flooded and eroded edges of Britain and Ireland’ PHILIP HOARE
URL:https://putney.news/event/lost-to-the-sea-an-evening-with-lisa-woollett/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Karen Powell - Putney
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to be joined by Karen Powell to discuss her latest novel Fifteen Wild Decembers.\n\n\nWe’re thrilled to be joined by Karen Powell to discuss her latest novel Fifteen Wild Decembers\, a creative reimagining of the life of Emily Bronte\, which was shortlisted for the Nero book awards 2023. The evening will be chaired by Georgina Moore\, author of The Garnett Girls. \nIsolated from society\, the Brontë children spend all their time inventing elaborate fictional realms or roaming the wild moors above their family home in Yorkshire. When the time comes for them to venture out into the world to earn a living\, each of them struggles to adapt\, but for Emily the change is catastrophic. Torn from the landscape she loves and no longer able to immerse herself in the fantastical world of Gondal that she and her younger sister Anne have created\, she is simply unable to function. \nAs a child\, Emily witnessed a rare natural phenomenon. After weeks of rain\, the peaty soil on Crow Hill became so sodden that the earth exploded. Since then\, her life has been dogged by tragedy and repeated failures. Her sisters are desperate to escape their unsatisfactory work as governesses and now the life of her brother Branwell\, the hope of the family\, is in turmoil. To the outside world\, Emily appears taciturn\, unexceptional; but beneath the surface her mind is in a creative ferment\, ready to burst forth. As the pressure on her grows\, another violent phenomenon is about to take place\, one that will fuse her imaginary world of Gondal with the landscape Emily loves so passionately\, and which will change the literary world forever. \n“Wild and captivating\, this takes us right to the heart of the Brontës’ story of creativity\, sisterhood and survival.”—Samantha Ellis\, author of How To Be a Heroine \n“I was spellbound by this fictionalised portrait\, brimming with the texture of the dank\, wild hills of Yorkshire\, the weight and power of grief\, and the contentment to be found in daring to forge one’s own path in the world. Delightful and intriguing; each sentence is so sharp\, so shining.”—Elizabeth Macneal\, author of Circus of Wonders \nKaren Powell was born in Rochester\, Kent. She left school at 16 but returned to education as a mature student to study English Literature at Lucy Cavendish College\, Cambridge. She lives in North Yorkshire. An early draft of The River Within was awarded a Northern Writers’ TLC ‘New Fiction Reads’ prize\, which seeks to support work-in-progress by new\, emerging and established writers across the North of England. \nGeorgina Moore grew up in London and lives on a houseboat on the River Thames with her partner\, two children and Bomber\, the Border Terrier. The Garnett Girls is her first novel and is set on the Isle of Wight\, where Georgina and her family have a holiday houseboat called Sturdy. Georgina is working on her second novel\, Walnut Tree Island\, which will be published in 2025
URL:https://putney.news/event/an-evening-with-karen-powell-putney/
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SUMMARY:An Evening With Kaliane Bradley at Waterstones Putney
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to be joined by Kaliane Bradley to celebrate the publication of The Ministry of Time.\n\n\nWe are thrilled to be joined by Kaliane Bradley to celebrate the publication of The Ministry of Time. Bradley’s dizzyingly assured debut is the book everyone is talking about\, and we’re truly honoured to be able to host her here in Putney. \n \nIn the near future\, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job in a mysterious new government ministry gathering ‘expats’ from across history to test the limits of time-travel. \nHer role is to work as a ‘bridge’: living with\, assisting and monitoring the expat known as ‘1847’ – Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned\, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to the Arctic\, so he’s a little disoriented to find himself alive and surrounded by outlandish concepts such as ‘washing machine’\, ‘Spotify’ and ‘the collapse of the British Empire’. With an appetite for discovery and a seven-a-day cigarette habit\, he soon adjusts; and during a long\, sultry summer he and his bridge move from awkwardness to genuine friendship\, to something more. \nBut as the true shape of the project that brought them together begins to emerge\, Gore and the bridge are forced to confront their past choices and imagined futures. Can love triumph over the structures and histories that have shaped them? And how do you defy history when history is living in your house? \n \n“Holy smokes this novel is an absolute cut above! Kaliane Bradley leaps into a storytelling league of her own. This book is a deadly serious speculative fiction but it is also one of the funniest books I’ve read in years. It is exciting\, surprising\, intellectually provocative\, weird\, radical\, tender and moving. I missed it when I was away from it. I will hurry to re-read it. Make room on your bookshelves for a new classic.” – Max Porter \n“As electric\, charming\, whimsical and strange as its ripped-from-history cast. (Extremely.) I loved every second I spent wrapped up in Kaliane Bradley’s stunning prose\, the moments that made me laugh and those that made my heart ache. This is a book that surprises as much as it delights\, and I’m already impatiently waiting for whatever Bradley concocts next” – Emily Henry \n \nKaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her short fiction has appeared in Somesuch Stories\,The Willowherb Review\, Electric Literature\, Catapult\, and Extra Teeth\, among others. She was the winner of the 2022 Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize and the 2022 V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize.
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