Eype Spring 2011 Book 'N Author Week

Eype Centre for the Arts is again holding the very popular Spring Book 'n' Author Week.
The confirmed programme is:-
We have reduced the ticket prices from £7.50 down to £6.50 with concessions to £5.50 for members of The Book Shop mailing list, members of the Burton Bradstock Village Hall Association, U3A members, and Symondsbury Parish residents.

Ticket prices cover car parking and refreshments appropriate to the time of day.

MONDAY 11TH APRIL

At 11.00am: PEPPER ‘KING OF SPICES’ with CHRISTINE MCFADDEN
CHRISTINE MCFADDEN shares her passion for pepper with a tutored tasting, from green, black, white and red peppercorns to varieties such as long pepper, cubeb pepper and grains of paradise, and a reading from her book PEPPER.

At 2.30pm: SILENT NIGHT with CHARLIE ELLINGWORTH
From working on oil rigs to founding Property Vision with a friend and moving to a run-down farmhouse in Somerset in 1990, sailing the Atlantic and flying his microlight to Libya CHARLES (Charlie) ELLINGWORTH has now turned his undoubted skills to writing. SILENT NIGHT is his first novel and has drawn wide critical acclaim.

TUESDAY 12TH APRIL

At 2.30pm: THE FIRST LADIES OF ROME: The Women Behind the Caesars with ANNELISE FREISENBRUCH
Using a full spectrum of the most up-to-date literary, artistic, archaeological and epigraphic evidence ANNELISE FREISENBRUCH reveals in her first remarkable book and for the first time the rich kaleidoscopic history of the Royal women of Rome, and the vivid and complex role of the empresses as political players on Rome’s greatest stage. In a review ALISON WEIR wrote, ‘You may think you know about them (sic) already – but you would be wrong because in these pages the myths of centuries are swept away to reveal the startling truth.’

WEDNESDAY 13TH APRIL

At 11.00am: An illustrated talk on THE WAVEWATCHERS COMPANION with GAVIN PRETOR PINNEY
Dragging his eyes away from the skies, GAVIN PRETOR PINNEY, founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society and author of The Cloudspotters’ Guide, focuses his attention on waves in all their manifold forms. From the familiar waves of the sea, the ripples on a pond, tide waves, Mexican waves to the more intimidating thicket of light waves and Einsteinium quantum mathematics, waves appear to be an essential part of what keeps us all alive.

At 2.30pm: TOGETHER: How Small Groups Achieve Big Things with HENRY HEMMING
HENRY HEMMING’s latest book explores the extraordinary revival of small groups in Britain in these first few years of the 21st century and the remarkable things than can be achieved ‘together’. It is almost an endorsement of the idea of the ‘Big Society’. He reveals a different way of seeing society, one that recognises the massive, untapped potential of the hundreds of thousands of small groups in Britain, how they work and what they enable their members to do what they cannot do on their own. SIMON JENKINS says of the book ‘it (sic) offers a fascinating and very different way of seeing society today’.

THURSDAY 14TH APRIL
At 2.30pm: THE BLITZ: The British Under Attack with JULIET GARDINER

Historian JULIET GARDINER has turned her considerable skills as a researcher to weave a tale in her intensely humane prose that brings tears, anger, horror, disgust and utter admiration. The Blitz and the effect on the British at war has remained curiously unexamined until this much-needed exploration of one of the most important moments in Second World War history; a moment in modern British history that defined the stubborn powers of endurance and genuine sense of community that characterised the British under attack.
At 6.30pm: DAMBUSTER: A novel of heroism and sacrifice with ROBERT RADCLIFFE in an interview with PAUL ATTERBURY
With The Fleet, one of the sites used for testing Barnes Wallis’ famous ‘bouncing bomb’ that finally breached the dams of Germany’s Ruhr valley, only a short drive away this promises to be a lively and fascinating discussion. DAMBUSTER vividly brings to life the 1943 Operation Chastise when two dams were breached causing widespread flooding and damage. There was significant loss of life on both sides. Aside from the German population eight of the nineteen aircraft used failed to return along with 53 of the 113 RAF aircrew that took part in the mission.

FRIDAY 15TH APRIL
At 11.00am: INDIA: A portrait by PATRICK FRENCH in an illustrated talk
Writer and historian Patrick French has spent much of his life engaged with India and brings his formidable knowledge of the Sub-Continent to the book’s insights into the making of this amazing and surprising country and its remarkable accelerated transformation from socialist economy to capitalist powerhouse. With India as a holiday destination of choice for many this book is an invaluable companion in understanding the country.

At 2.30pm: NICHOLAS JUBBER is DRINKING ARAK OFF AN AYATOLLAH’S BEARD: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan
Living in the house of a dissident Iranian author, Nicholas Jubber learned of a world teeming with history and culture, where people gathered to recite poetry at teatime and artists drew parallels between the current regime and monstrous villains from epic poetry. This is the story of Nick’s journey around Iran, Central Asia and Afghanistan, tilting from the ancient tales narrated by the poet Ferdowski to the turbulent politics of the present. Again this presentation is illustrated with images and video and features an animated version of one of the most popular stories from Ferdowski’s Shahnameh, made with images from medieval Persian manuscripts.

Tickets for all these events are £7.50 and include refreshments appropriate to the time of day and free parking. The Bridport Tourist Information on 01308 424901 are the agents for sales.

Dates

Book N Author Week in Spring 11/04/2011 - 15/04/2011