Independent Booksellers Week 2013

Join the acclaimed 3-D Master, Robert Crowther, for a fantastic Paper Engineering Workshop at The Qube on Saturday 29th June and learn all the tricks to help you create your own pop-up structures.

Don’t miss this highly interactive event and chance to work with Robert, one of the leading paper engineers.

Suitable for Ages 7+

Venue: The Qube, Oswald Road, Oswestry

Date/Time: Saturday 29th June – 10.00am – 12.00 noon

Tickets: £12 (includes workshop plus a signed copy of a Robert Crowther Pop-Up book)

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Celebrate the paperback launch of The Paper Dolls by Julia Donaldson & Rebecca Cobb

Join children’s author and illustrator Rebecca Cobb for a Paper Doll making workshop and book signing and help contribute to the Macmillan Children’s Books World Record attempt for the longest chain of Paper Dolls.

Come and meet Rebecca and be a Record Breaker!

Venue: Booka

Date: Tuesday 2nd July – 4.00pm

Tickets: Free Event – just let us know if you’re planning to come along.

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Travels with Hilary…

Join Bradt Travel Guide founder Hilary Bradt as she talks about her journey across Ireland on horseback, featured in her books Connemara Mollie and Dingle Peggy.

Connemara Mollie is an account of a journey through western Ireland made in 1984, fulfilling a childhood dream of a long-distance ride. The story centres on the growing bond between Hilary and her Connemara pony, Mollie and the many challenges that they face. It is also a portrait of rural Ireland before the “Celtic Tiger” era. The journey takes them through Counties Galway, Mayo, Clare and Kerry.

Dingle Peggy continues the journey on horseback through the west of Ireland. With her replacement pony, Peggy, Hilary travels from the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, south down the coast of Co. Cork, before turning inland through Counties Waterford, Tipperary and Limerick. Dingle Peggy is published on 5th July

Venue: Booka

Date: Monday 1st July – 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start)

Tickets: £5 (redeemable against book purchase on the night, plus refreshments).

Please book in advance -  for tickets,  call in at the shop, give us a call or send us an email.

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M L Stedman was born and raised in Western Australia and now lives in London. The Light Between Oceans was a New York Times Top Ten bestseller and is being published in over 30 territories and made into a film. It was Long Listed for the Womens Prize for Fiction 2013. It is published in paperback in the UK on 9th May.

The Light Between Oceans tells the story of Tom Sherbourne, a lighthouse keeper and his young wife Izzy, who live on a remote Australian island. Izzy  is content in everything but her failure to have a child. One April morning, a boat washes ashore carrying a dead man – and a crying baby. Safe from the real world, Tom and Izzy break the rules and follow their hearts. It is a decision with devastating consequences.

Tickets: £8 (to include a signed copy of The Light Between Oceans, plus refreshments).

Please book in advance -  for tickets,  call in at the shop, give us a call or send us an email.

If you are unable to attend the event but would like a signed and dedicated copy of The Light Between Oceans, please contact us.

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Date: Thursday 23rd – 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start)

Venue: Booka

Tickets: £20 (to include a signed paperback by each author, plus refreshments).

Manda Scott, is the author of the bestselling Boudica series and now the acclaimed sequence of ROME historical spy novels. ROME, The Art of War, the fourth in the series, was published in hardback on 28th March 2013.

Ben Kane is best known for his Forgotten Legion Trilogy,  and most recently his bestselling Spartacus books, Spartacus:The Gladiator and Spartacus:The Rebellion. His latest novel, Hannibal: Fields of Blood is published in hardback on 6th June 2013

James Aitcheson is the author of a series of medieval historical novels set amidst the chaos of the Norman Conquest. They tell the story of the battle for England, and how the kingdom was won and lost in the years immediately after 1066. The first book in the series, Sworn Sword, was originally published in 2011. The sequel, The Splintered Kingdom, was published in paperback on 14th March 2013.

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Humble By Nature is billed as a highly personal account of Kate’s journey from London town house and 20 years of living in the city, to life on a Welsh smallholding in rural Monmouthshire.

Venue: The Walls Restaurant, Welsh Walls, Oswestry

Date: Thursday 6th June – 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start)

Tickets: £17 (to include a signed hardback copy of Humble by Nature, plus refreshments).

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Through discussion and practical activities Julie will show how to ‘change your life’ from the inside out, to help you move from stress to ease in simple and heart-felt ways.

Venue: Booka

Time: 1.00pm – 2.30pm

Tickets £10 (to include a copy of Love Being Me, plus refreshments).

Places limited, please book in advance.

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We’ve lots planned including: readings from selected WBN titles, literary quiz with prizes, book blind date, noveltree book recommendations, charity book raffle and WBN Givers.

Come along and celebrate all things books “in a shop with books in” – we’ll provide the refreshments!

Free Event – Just let us know if you’re planning on coming along.

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Jo will be reading her books The Talent Show and My Friend Nigel.

Tickets £7.50 (to include story time, a signed copy of one of Jo’s books, plus  refreshments)

Ages 4 – 7 years

Please book in advance

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This year’s programme includes appearances by Michael Morpurgo, Kate Atkinson, Andrew Motion, a Dalek, an Alien in Underpants, plus performances of Wind in the Willows and Bullets & Daffodils, music from The Bookshop Band, a Creative Writing Workshop with Alison Bavistock and a screening of The Life of Pi.

The full programme of events is available to view and download from the OsLitFest website

We are proud to be a Festival Partner and the official bookseller. We also act as the Box Office for many of the events.

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