BLACKWELL BOOKSHOP EDINBURGH PRESENTS THIS JULY
With summer finally here and the warm weather creating a
pleasant atmosphere outside, why not enjoy a wee evening stroll up to Blackwell
Bookshop and discover our great list of events this July.
THE BLACKWELL BOOK QUIZ
DATE: MONDAY 6TH
JULY
TIME: 5:45PM FOR A 6PM START
LOCATION: CAFFE
NERO
WITHIN
BLACKWELL BOOKSHOP
53-62 SOUTH BRIDGE
EDINBURGH
Do you know you're Waugh from your Peace, or you're Meyer
from your Heyer?
Then join us for Blackwell
Bookshop's monthly BOOK QUIZ. We
will quiz you on anything from Classics to current Bestsellers, Booker Prize
winners to Celebrity Biographies.
Teams of up to five people can take part.
It is FREE to
enter, but seats are limited so please come early to secure your place. There
are no tickets required for this evening of fun!
For further
information please contact James Anderson on 0131 622 8201 or [email protected]
Blackwell Bookshop
53-62 South Bridge
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CRAIG RUSSELL - ‘LENNOX'
DATE: THURSDAY 9TH JULY
TIME: 6:15PM FOR A 6:30PM START
LOCATION: BLACKWELL BOOKSHOP
53-62 SOUTH BRIDGE
EDINBURGH
TICKETS: FREE
AVAILABLE FROM: FRONT DESK OF BLACKWELL BOOKSHOP, SOUTH BRIDGE
Blackwell is pleased to
welcome the talented Scottish Crime author Craig
Russell.
Craig is popularly
known for his crime novels set mainly in Hamburg, Germany. Such titles as
‘Carnival Master' or ‘Brother Grimm' have mesmerized us for
years. So it is with much anticipation that we finally discover Craig has begun a new, unique and
memorable series set here in Scotland. ‘Lennox' is gritty, compelling, and
unashamedly neo-Noir.
Shady private investigator Lennox is a hard man in a hard
city at a hard time: Glasgow, 1953, where the war may be over but the battle for the streets is just
beginning. It's a place where only the toughest and most ruthless survive.
The McGahern twins were on
the way up until Tam, the brains of the outfit, opened his door to find two hit
men pointing shotguns at him. The Three Kings, the crime lords who run Glasgow's
underworld, all deny ordering the hit, so Tam's brother Frankie turns to Lennox to find out who killed his
twin. Lennox refuses. Later that night, Frankie's body is discovered on the road,
his head mashed to pulp, and Lennox finds himself in the frame for murder. The only way of proving his
innocence is to solve the crime - but he'll have to dodge men more deadly than Glasgow's crime
bosses before he gets any answers.
Craig Russell combines atmosphere,
action and a pitch-black sense of humour with an intelligent and complex
character that is a product of the recent war he lived through.
Come and discover the
beginning of a great new crime series.
For more information please contact Claire Leach on
0131 622 8206
Blackwell Bookshop
53-62 South Bridge
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ARAVIND ADIGA - ‘BETWEEN THE ASSASSINATIONS'
DATE: WEDNESDAY 15TH JULY
TIME: 6:15PM FOR A 6:30PM START
LOCATION: BLACKWELL
BOOKSHOP
53-62 SOUTH BRIDGE
EDINBURGH
TICKETS: FREE
AVAILABLE FROM: FRONT DESK
OF BLACKWELL BOOKSHOP, SOUTH BRIDGE
Blackwell is honoured to present an evening with the 2008 Man
Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga and his eagerly anticipated ‘Between the
Assassinations'.
In ‘Between the Assassinations', Aravind brings to life a chorus of
distinctive Indian voices, all inhabitants of a fictional town.
On India's
south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, lies Kittur - a small, nondescript every town. Aravind Adiga acts as our guide to the town, mapping overlapping
lives of Kittur's residents. Here, an illiterate Muslim boy working at the
train station finds himself tempted by an Islamic terrorist; a bookseller is
arrested for selling a copy of ‘The Satanic Verses'; a rich, spoiled,
half-caste student decides to explode a bomb in school; a sexologist has to
find a cure for a young boy who may have AIDS.
What we will see emerge is
the moral biography of an Indian town and a group portrait of ordinary Indians
in a time of extraordinary transformation, over the seven-year period between
the assassinations of Prime Minister Gandhi and her son Rajiv.
Keenly observed and finely
detailed, ‘Between the Assassinations' is a triumph of voice and imagination. It sizzles with the same humour, anger,
and humanity that characterized the prize winning ‘The White Tiger'.
For more information please contact Claire Leach on 0131 622 8206
Blackwell Bookshop
53-62 South Bridge
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DOUGLAS JACKSON -
‘CLAUDIUS'
DATE: THURSDAY 16TH JULY
TIME: 6:15PM FOR A 6:30PM START
LOCATION: BLACKWELL
BOOKSHOP
53-62 SOUTH BRIDGE
EDINBURGH
TICKETS: FREE
AVAILABLE FROM: FRONT DESK
OF BLACKWELL BOOKSHOP, SOUTH BRIDGE
Blackwell is pleased to present an
evening with Douglas Jackson and his
latest historical literary feat - ‘Claudius'.
The year is 43AD ...In
Southern England, Caratacus, war chief of the Britons, watches from a hilltop
as the scarlet cloaks of the Roman legions spread across his lands like blood,
whilst in Rome, Emperor Claudius, newly risen to the imperial throne, dreams of
taking his place in history alongside his illustrious forebears Caesar and
Augustus.
Among the legions marches
Rufus, keeper of the Emperor's elephant. War is coming and the united tribes of
Britain will make a desperate stand against the might of Rome. The Emperor has a very
special place for Rufus and his elephant in the midst of the battle - as a
secret weapon to cow the Britons with the visible manifestation of Rome's power.
‘Claudius' is a masterful telling of
one of the greatest stories from Roman history, the conquest of Britain. It is
an epic story of ambition, courage, conspiracy, battle and bloodshed, and
confirms Douglas Jackson as one of
the best historical novelists writing today.
If you were lucky enough to
discover Douglas' last work ‘Caligula' or if you simply love
history ‘Claudius' is a must have
read.
For more information please contact Claire Leach on 0131 622 8206
Blackwell Bookshop
53-62 South Bridge
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LARI DON - ‘TAM O'SHANTER - RELOADED'
DATE: WEDNESDAY 22ND JULY
TIME: 5:45PM FOR A 6:00PM START
LOCATION: BLACKWELL
BOOKSHOP
53-62 SOUTH BRIDGE
EDINBURGH
TICKETS: FREE
AVAILABLE FROM: FRONT DESK OF BLACKWELL BOOKSHOP, SOUTH BRIDGE
Blackwell welcomes writer and storyteller
Lari Don to share with us her
wonderful retelling of Robert Burns' Scottish classic ‘Tam O'Shanter'.
Returning from a usual
Friday night out with his friends, Tam & his horse Meg stumble upon a dark,
supernatural celebration at the old Kirk. What will happen when he disturbs
this devil's dance? Will he escape the furious witches?
‘Tam O'Shanter: reloaded' is published by Barrington Stoke a wonderful
publisher that focuses mainly on creating books for dyslexic and struggling
readers, but their books can really be enjoyed by us all.
With the fantastically
spooky pictures by Peter Clover and the words recreated by the wonderful author
of ‘First
Aid for Fairies and other Fabled Beasts', which was published last year to
the great pleasure of many children across Scotland, we can all expect to enjoy
Lari's version of Tam's
misadventures.
If you loved the classic or are yet to discover this terrifying tale,
please join us to celebrate the release of ‘Tam
O'Shanter: reloaded'.
For more information please contact Claire Leach on 0131 622 8206
Blackwell Bookshop
53-62 South Bridge
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MICHAEL FRY - ‘EDINBURGH: A HISTORY OF THE CITY'
DATE: THURSDAY 23RD JULY
TIME: 6:15PM FOR A 6:30PM START
LOCATION: BLACKWELL
BOOKSHOP
53-62 SOUTH BRIDGE
EDINBURGH
TICKETS: FREE
AVAILABLE FROM: FRONT DESK OF BLACKWELL BOOKSHOP, SOUTH BRIDGE
Blackwell is very happy to present an evening with Michael Fry and his wonderful book
about our great city - ‘Edinburgh: a history of the city'.
The late poet laureate, Sir
John Betjeman, said that Edinburgh was the most beautiful city in
Europe. Like some other great cities it is set on seven hills. But only
one of
these, Rome, rivals Edinburgh in matching the beauty of its setting
with the stateliness of its
buildings. A romantic landscape of sea and hills, broad vistas and
hidden
corners is embellished by a style of architecture combining stern
classicism
with antiquarian whimsy. Edinburgh, too, provides the backdrop to much
of the dark drama of the Scottish
past, but the 1,500 year history of the city itself deserves wider
telling.
Long ruled by a strait-laced professional bourgeoisie, Edinburgh never
suppressed a livelier side, peopled by figures comic or brutal,
eccentric or
gruesome.
Michael Fry, who has lived and worked
there for nearly forty years, provides a compellingly readable account of this
great city, from the earliest times to the present, balancing Edinburgh's cultural,
political and social history, and shows how they have borne on one another. He
draws on a wide range of new untapped archival sources, especially private
papers and oral records, and paints a vivid a picture of the city of John Knox
and James Boswell, of David Hume and Walter Scott, a city - that like
Stevenson's ‘Dr Jekyll' - is both dark and light, both ‘Auld Reekie' and ‘the
Athens of the North'.
If you love Edinburgh or are yet to discover her
charms, please join us to be immersed in this great telling of her past.
For more information please contact Claire Leach on 0131 622 8206 or [email protected]
Blackwell Bookshop
53-62 South Bridge
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