 ADELE NOZEDAR - The Garden Forager Wednesday 22nd April, 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka
Interested in gardening, cooking and foraging? - then join us for an evening with foraging expert Adele Nozedar and discover the edible delights in your own back yard! In high-end restaurants and in the home, more and more cooks have discovered the joy of using natural foraged ingredients. But, what few realise is that you don't necessarily have to go rootling in hedgerows or woodlands to find them. Many of our own gardens contain an abundance of edible and medicinal plants, grown mainly for their ornamental appearance. Most gardeners are completely unaware that what they have actually planted is a rather exotic kitchen garden. The Garden Forager explores over 40 of the most popular garden plants that have edible, medicinal or even cosmetic potential, accompanied by recipes, remedies, and interesting facts, and illustrated throughout in exquisite watercolours by Lizzie Harper. This beautifully illustrated book redefines how we look at our gardens.
Tickets: £5 (redeemable against book purchase) Refreshments provided.
Please book in advance - for tickets, call in at the shop, give us a call, or purchase online via our Eventbrite page. |  JAMES RUNCIE - The Grantchester Mysteries Monday 18th May - 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Holy Trinity Church, Roft Street, Oswestry Join us for an evening in the company of James Runcie, as he talks about his latest Grantchester Mystery – Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins. Beginning in 1957, The Granchester Mysteries is a series of novels featuring the clergyman detective, Canon Sidney Chambers. Young, upstanding and trustworthy, with a reassuringly gentle manner, Sidney can go where the Police cannot. It's Father Brown with attitude, Agatha Christie with Cathedrals and Barbara Pym with sex! In this new mystery, the loveable priest and part-time detective continues his sleuthing adventures in 1960's Cambridge. Grantchester is now a major ITV series starring James Norton as Sidney Chambers and Robson Green as Geordie Keating. We are delighted to welcome James to Oswestry to hear about the inspiration behind his enduringly popular detective novels, in the perfect setting of Holy Trinity Church.
Tickets: £5 (redeemable against a signed hardback copy of Sidney Chambers & The Foregiveness of Sins) Includes a glass of wine/soft drink.
Please book in advance - for tickets, call in at the shop, give us a call, or purchase online via our Eventbrite page. |  Oswestry LitFest 2015 ..... and relax! After a performance packed two weeks, the sixth Oswestry Literary Festival finally drew to a close on 8th April with a fitting 'Encore Event' as Dame Stephanie Shirley returned to Oswestry to tell her inspirational story.
It's been a great Festival, with some truly memorable events. A big thank you from Carrie and the LitFest team to Judy Finnigan & Richard Madeley, Alastair Campbell, Sophie Hannah, Dame Stephanie Shirley, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Matt Haig, Jesse Armstrong, Harry Potter Show, Marc Morris, Yasmeen Ismail and Huw Powell for appearing this year.
If you came along to one or more events, we hope you enjoyed it. | |  JAMES HANNAH - The A-Z of You and Me Wednesday 13th May, 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka Join us for an evening with James Hannah, as he talks about his striking debut novel The A-Z of You and Me - longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize The A to Z of You and Me tells the story of a young man, Ivo, looking back over his misspent youth, friendships made and broken and the love for a girl that that he'll never get back. At the suggestion of his nurse, he begins to take his mind off his anxieties and being bedbound, by playing an A-Z game, listing the parts of his body and telling a little tale or memory about each. The results are a kaleidoscopic chain of recollections, which together unravel the story of Ivo's life. Told with great warmth, intimacy and dark humour, this is a quirky and compelling novel about friendship and forgiveness, and ultimately about offering hope to others. James Hannah is one of The Observer's 'New Faces of Fiction 2015' - we are delighted to welcome him to Oswestry. Tickets: £5 (redeemable against book purchase) Includes a glass of wine.
Please book in advance - for tickets, call in at the shop, give us a call, or purchase online via our Eventbrite page. |  FRANCES HARDINGE - The Lie Tree Tuesday 5th May - 5.30pm (for 6.00pm start) at Booka Calling all teens – join us for a special YA Event with FRANCES HARDINGE, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly by Night, as she talks about her creepy new novel, THE LIE TREE. The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel. Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. The tree only grows healthy and bears fruit if you whisper a lie to it. The fruit of the tree, when eaten, will deliver a hidden truth to the person who consumes it. The bigger the lie, the more people who believe it, the bigger the truth that is uncovered.... Tickets: FREE EVENT - But please book places. For tickets, call in at the shop, give us a call, or book online via our Eventbrite page. |  BOOK OF THE MONTH - A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale Our Book of the Month for April is A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale - we're offering a FREE Coffee or Tea with every purchase of this great book!
Here's Tim's quick review:
This poignant novel tells the story of Harry Cane - forced to abandon his wife and child and a comfortable London life and emigrate to the harsh, newly colonised prairies of Canada. Here, having apparently lost all, Harry's journey of self discovery continues as he begins to find his true self in a place called Winter. Loosely based on true events from Patrick Gale's own family history, this is a powerful and moving read, set at a time when people's attitudes were very different.
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