David Crystal - You Say Potato Tuesday 4th November 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka Book Launch - Alison Layland - Someone Else's Conflict Thursday 6th November 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka Christmas Shopping Night - 6.30pm to 9.00pm at Booka Dave Goulson - A Buzz in the Meadow Wednesday 26th November 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka Matt Sewell - Owls: Our Most Enchanting Bird Thursday 4th December 7.00pm for (7.30pm start) at Booka Adele Nozedar - Great British Sweets Tuesday 9th December 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka Chris Hadfield - You Are Here Wednesday 10th December 12 noon (doors 11.30am) at The Wynnstay Hotel
Tuesday 4th November 2014 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka
Join us for an evening with linguist David Crystal as he talks about his new book You Say Potato.
Everyone has an accent, though many of us think we don’t. We all have our likes and dislikes about the way other people speak and everyone has something to say about ‘correct’ pronunciation. But how did all these accents come about and why do people feel so strongly about them?
Witty, authoritative and jam-packed full of fascinating facts, You Say Potato is a celebration of the myriad ways in which the English Language is spoken – and how our accents, in so many ways, speak louder than words.
Tickets: £5 (redeemable against book purchase. Refreshments provided)
Please book in advance – for tickets, call in at the shop or purchase online via our Eventbrite page.
If you can't make the event, but would like a signed & dedicated copy of You Say Potato, please let us know.
ALISON LAYLAND Book Launch - Someone Else's Conflict
Thursday 6th November 2014 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka
We're delighted to be hosting the book launch for Someone Else's Conflict, the debut novel by local author Alison Layland, published by Honno Press.
Jay is haunted by the ghosts of war who threaten his life and his love. Someone Else's Conflict is compelling narrative of trust and betrayal, love, duty and honour from a talented debut novelist.
Join us on publication day for the launch of the book - it's FREE to attend.
MATT SEWELL - Owls
Thursday 4th December 2014 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka
Join us for an evening with artist and illustrator Matt Sewell as he talks about his new book, Owls.
In this beautiful follow-up to Our Garden Birds, Our Songbirds and Our Woodland Birds, Matt captures the world’s most evocative bird: the Owl. In his much-loved pop-art watercolours and accompanied with his whimsical descriptions, Matt Sewell expresses the individual characters of owls as never before. With 50 hand-selected, hand-painted owls, this is a delightful book for bird lovers, adults and children and art & designs fans alike.
Tickets: £5 (redeemable against book purchase. Refreshments provided).
Please book in advance – for tickets call in at the shop or purchase online via our Eventbrite page.
If you can’t make the event, but would like a signed & personalised copy of Owls, please let us know.
ADELE NOZEDAR - Great British Sweets
Tuesday 9th December 2014 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka
This event has only just been confirmed. Further details to follow.
DAVE GOULSON - A Buzz in the Meadow
Wednesday 26th November 2014 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka
Join us for an evening with Dave Goulson, Professor of Biology and bestselling author of A Sting in the Tale, as he talks about his new book A Buzz in the Meadow.
In A Buzz in the Meadow, Dave Goulson tells the story of how he bought a derelict farm in the heart of rural France, together with 33 acres of surrounding meadow and how, over a decade, he has created a place for his beloved bumblebees and other creatures to thrive.
The book is also a wake-up call, urging us cherish and protect life on earth in all its forms – if we learn to value what we have then perhaps we will find a way to keep it.
Tickets: £5 (redeemable against book purchase. Refreshments provided)
Please book in advance - for tickets, call in at the shop, or purchase online via our Eventbritepage.
If you can't make the event, but would like a signed & dedicated copy of A Buzz in the Meadow, please let us know.
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING NIGHT
Thursday 13th November 2014 6.30pm to 9.00pm at Booka
Join us for a special Christmas Shopping Night at Booka - we've something for everyone on your Christmas present list.
We'll be showcasing the very best books published this year, plus our distinctive range of gifts, Christmas cards cards and wrap.
Enjoy Fizz & Seasonal Treats and 10% of all purchases.
Hope to see you.
CHRIS HADFIELD - You Are Here
Wednesday 10th December 2014 12 noon (doors at 11.30am) at The Wynnstay Hotel, Church Street, Oswestry
This is a one-off opportunity to meet celebrated astronaut and You Tube sensation Chris Hadfield as he talks his new book, You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes.
With his first book, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life, Chris Hadfield captured the nation’s imagination and rekindled everyone’s fascination with space. He gave us a glimpse of what life might be like as an astonaut, circling 220 miles above the earth. In his new book he shows us, through magnificent photographs of the world seen from above, exactly what it is like to look through a spaceship’s porthole.
In You Are Here, Hadfield creates a virtual orbit of Earth, giving us the really big picture: this is our home, from space. Through the photographs – many of which have never been shared – he unveils a fresh and insightful look at our planet.
Chris Hadfield was the first Canadian to walk in space. He flew four space missions and was Commander of the International Space Station as part of Expedition 35. During the mission he also gained popularity by chronicling life aboard the space station and taking pictures of the earth and posting them through social media to a large following of people around the world. His music video, a zero-gravity version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” received over ten million views in its first three days online. His TED talk, delivered in March 2014, drew more than one million views in its first three weeks.
Don’t miss out on your chance to meet astronaut Chris Hadfield and ask him what it is really like to be in outer space!
Tickets £10 (includes illustrated talk, £5 off a signed copy of You Are Here & refreshments)
Please book in advance – for tickets call in at the shop or purchase online via our Eventbrite page.
If you can’t make the event, but would like a signed hardback copy of You Are Here, please let us know.
Booka News
Signed Copies now in stock The Taxidermist's Daughter - Kate Mosse The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher - Hilary Mantel Walking Home - Clare Balding Head of State - Andrew Marr Us - David Nicholls The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell Please Mister Postman - Alan Johnson Wars of the Roses - Conn Iggulden Lamentation - C.J. Sansom The Love Song of Queenie Hennesey - Rachel Joyce Miss Carter's War - Shiela Hancock Only When I Laugh - Paul Merton So Anyway - John Cleese How to Drive - Ben Collins/The Stig KP: My Autobiography - Kevin Pieterson The Test: My Autobiography - Brian O' Driscoll Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party - Alexander McCall Smith Best Ever Dishes - Tom Kerridge River Cottage Light & Easy - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingsall The Breakaway: Nicole Cooke My Story - Nicole Cooke Behind the Mask - Matthew Dennison Four Stories - Alan Bennett England & Other Stories - Graham Swift Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death - Chris Riddell
These can also be purchased online via our website
We are waiting for: Awful Auntie - David Walliams
Book Clubs
Booka Book Club - Currently reading: Wild by Cheryl Strayed. Next meeting Wednesday 3rd December, 7.30pm at Booka Book & a Beer Book Club - Currently reading: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Next meeting TBC 7.30pm at Booka
Both groups meet at the Shop and are free to attend. New members are always welcome. So, step outside your comfort zone and come along to explore new authors and genres – we’d love to see you.
Children's Book Club (7-9 yrs) -Currently reading: The Yoghurt Plot by Fleur Hitchcock (Next meeting Tuesday 18th November - 4.15pm) Children's Book Club (10-12 yrs) - Currently reading:Ophelia & the Marvellous Boy by Karen Foxlee (Next meeting Wednesday 19th November - 4.15pm) Teen Book Club (13+ yrs) - Currently reading: More Than This by Patrick Ness (Next meeting Thursday 20th November - 4.45pm)
Our Children's Book Clubs & our Teen Book Club are fully subscribed. We have a reserve list in operation for those who would like to join.
We should all support our local pub, none of us would want to lose it.
The Talbot restaurant has opened, we have eaten there twice now and the food has been of good quality and at reasonable price. Jake the chef came out to us on both occasions asking for feedback and is happy to do special meals to order if given 1-2 days notice. They all are really keen and eager to please.
The restaurant needs to be a success otherwise eventually Joules will lose patience and sell the place. They are obviously on a limited budget so in terms of refurbishment can’t compete with the likes of the Red Lion or the New Inn.
This is very useful feedback, lets all go along to the Talbot, whether for a pint or a meal and spread the word. We MUST keep our pub open.
The Market Hall, Claremont Street, Shrewsbury, SY1 1QG
October 2014
PRESS RELEASE
Traders launch ‘The Big Market Art-Off Christmas Competition’
Shrewsbury market traders are launching a big art competition with cash prizes to create a festive backdrop to late-night shopping events in the lead up to Christmas.
Stallholders at the town’s market hall have thrown down the gauntlet to artists of all ages to produce large pictures on fabric on the theme of ‘Christmas in Shrewsbury’.
The Big Market Art-Off Christmas Competition will be judged during the town’s first late Christmas shopping evening of the year on Wednesday November 19 by a panel of professional artists from the Shropshire Visual Art Network which has a permanent gallery in the indoor market.
The winner will receive a £100 cash prize with a £50 cash prize going to the runner-up. Each entrant is being asked to use a piece of fabric or flat bed- sheet as a blank canvas for creating their potential master-piece.
“November 19 is the night of the Christmas lights switch-on in Shrewsbury. The market will be open until 9pm so we want to make it look extra special by being decorated in festive works of art,” said spokeswoman Heidi Butter.
“Stalls and restaurants will be open to gift hunters and evening diners and there will be live music including choirs, bands and solo performers. It will be a festive atmosphere.
“People can use any medium to create their work of art – paint, paper, foil, photos etc. We are really looking forward to seeing what people’s imagination can conjure up.”
People wanting to enter can obtain an entry form from the The Visual Art Network Gallery and the following stalls: The Pampered Pineapple & Deuxieme Chance, Thoughts, Urban Bikes UK, Gluten Free Living, Café AleOli, Beyond the Purple Door and L and E Designs. Forms can also be obtained by emailing the market site facilities manager Kate Gittins at kate.gittins@eujll.com.
All artworks must be returned to the same stallholders by 3pm on Saturday November 15. The winner will be announced at 8pm on November 19.
For further press information contact Sarah Hart on 01743 240112 or 0741 535 1318.
