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Author drops into Hampton Court to discuss new book

2:22pm Thursday 11th March 2010

AS part of Herefordshire Council libraries service’s efforts to encourage more people to join a book group, local writer and historian Catherine Beale will be giving an illustrated talk about her book, Champagne and Shambles, at Hampton Court on Saturday from 3pm to 4.30pm.

Remarkable stories set to inspire audience at Monmouth Women's Festival

8:00am Tuesday 2nd March 2010

BEST-SELLING author Jung Change, whose family memoir Wild Swans remained at the top of the bestseller lists for months back in the 1980s, will present a lecture, From Wild Swans to Mao, at the Monmouth’s Blake Theatre on March 12 as part of Monmouth Women’s Festival.

Philippa May's book review of the month - Julie & Julia My year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell

8:00am Monday 22nd February 2010

APPROACHING her 30th birthday and dissatisfied with the way her life was going, Julie Powell decided she needed a ‘project’.

Rock and roll memories give author, Tiffany Murray, inspiration for second novel

7:00am Saturday 30th January 2010

IT’S been almost six years since Tiffany Murray’s first novel, Happy Accidents, was published and this month saw the publication of her second, Diamond Star Halo, which has already been selected by Hay Festival as its January Book of the Month.

Turning over plenty of new leaves with a feast of festive book choices

8:00am Saturday 12th December 2009

Books make the ideal gift for hard-to-buy-for friends and family, and PHILIPPA MAY has plenty of suggestions of titles that will fit the bill, all with local settings, by local authors or featuring people or places of local interest. Whether it’s celebrity autobiography or a locally-based novel, get free post and packing when you order with the Hereford Times Book Group at sparkledirect.com.

Quentin Letts signs new book

1:33pm Thursday 26th November 2009

QUENTIN Letts will be signing copies of his new book, Bog Standard Britain: How Mediocrity Ruined this Great Nation at the Ledbury Bookshop between 11am and 1pm on Saturday and at Ross Books, in Ross-on-Wye, on Saturday, December 5, from 11.30am to 12.30pm.

Author's book signing dates

10:50am Thursday 12th November 2009

CHAMPAGNE & Shambles, Catherine Beale’s account of the rise and fall of the Arkwrights of Hampton Court, has just been published in paperback and she will be signing copies of her book in Border Books in Leominster tomorrow (Friday) from 1pm to 2pm and in Waterstone’s in Hereford on Thursday, November 19, between 12.30pm and 2.30pm.