Yoland's eMails: 2024

Friday, 20 December 2024

For sale- security chain broach

Dear Blogger

Message from Ruth Hodson, Baschurch

For sale - a horse button hole security chain broach in gold . £40. ono. Tel.07955307398

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RATS Pantomime Raffle for Severn Hospice & The Hive, Shrewsbury

Dear Blogger

Message from Claire Trickett, RATS

The Pantomime raffle made £800 for Severn Hospice and The Hive creative venue, Shrewsbury

December newsletter from Booka Bookshop

Dear Blogger

Newsletter from Booka Bookshop

December 2024

Welcome to our December Newsletter!

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you for all of your support this year.

Please note our opening hours over the Christmas period in Oswestry and Bridgnorth.

Café Booka

Take a break from the Christmas shopping and indulge in our festive drinks!

We wrapped up our 2024 events schedule with an enjoyable afternoon with Tom Parker Bowles and Matt Tebbutt...

Hello 2025! More exciting events to look forward to...

BRIDGNORTH
An Afternoon with Jojo Moyes – We All Live Here

Join us for an afternoon with Sunday Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes as she talks about her new novel We All Live Here.

OSWESTRY
An Evening with Jojo Moyes – We All Live Here

Join us for an evening with Sunday Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes as she talks about her new novel We All Live Here.

LIVERPOOL
An Evening with Marian Keyes – My Favourite Mistake

Booka Bookshop and Linghams Booksellers are delighted to welcome you to An Evening with Marian Keyes at St George's Hall in Liverpool, celebrating the paperback release of My Favourite Mistake!

OSWESTRY
An Evening with Lora Jones – The Woman In the Wallpaper

Join us at Booka Oswestry on publication day of the most anticipated historical debut of 2025: The Woman in the Wallpaper by Lora Jones.

BRIDGNORTH
An Evening with Clare Mackintosh – Other People's Houses

Join us for a thrilling evening at Booka Bridgnorth with Clare Mackintosh, on publication day of Other People's Houses. The stunning new thriller from the author who brought you the jaw-dropping twist of I Let You Go, the gasp-out-loud ending of Let Me Lie, and the loveable, unpredictable Ffion Morgan in The Last Party and A Game of Lies.

OSWESTRY
An Evening with Jake Morris-Campbell – Between the Salt and the Ash

Join us for an evening with Jake Morris-Campbell, talking about his new book Between the Salt and the Ash: A Journey into the Soul of Northumbria.

More exciting author events to be announced soon! Watch this space...

ONLINE ORDERS

There's still time to order online for Christmas delivery! Please be advised that Friday 20th December at 2pm is our final postage deadline for 24hr tracked parcels.

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Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on ageing as a woman

From generational icon Brooke Shields comes an intimate and empowering exploration of ageing that flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow older

Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinised, her every decision judged. Today Brooke faces a different kind of scrutiny: that of being a 'woman of a certain age'.

And yet, for Brooke, the passage of time has brought freedom. At fifty-nine, she feels more comfortable in her skin, more empowered and confident than she did decades ago in those famous Calvin Kleins. Now, in Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, she's changing the narrative about women and ageing.

This is an era, insists Brooke, when women are reclaiming agency and power, not receding into the shadows. These are the years when we get to decide how we want to live – when we get to write our own stories.

With remarkable candour, Brooke bares all, painting a vibrant and optimistic picture of being a woman in the prime of her life, while dismantling the myths that have, for too long, dimmed that perception. Sharing her own life experiences with humour and humility, and weaving together research and reporting, Brooke takes aim at the systemic factors that contribute to age-related bias.

By turns inspiring, moving, and galvanising, Brooke's honesty and vulnerability will resonate with women everywhere, and spark a new conversation about the power and promise of midlife.

Brooke is signing bookplates exclusively for Independent Bookshops!