Put a bookshop together with a great cafe and you have something rather special. We are, therefore, delighted to be hosting our author event series in partnership with our good friends and upstairs neighbours at the Community Waffle House. Working with our favourite publishers means that we can now bring you special authors in an atmosphere you will love.
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Join us for an evening of delightful conversation with not one, but three authors who will be sitting with our bookseller Tim, to discuss the first in a new crime series The Lyme Regis Women’s Swimming Club.
About the Authors
Rachel McLean
Rachel writes stories you can’t put down, with characters you’ll be rooting for!
She is best known for her Dorset Crime series, which has sold over a million copies. The first book in that series, The Corfe Castle Murders, won the 2021 Kindle Storyteller Award.
But The Corfe Castle Murders is by no means her only book. Rachel has published five series and is working on two new ones, all of which connect. You’ll find characters from each series in one or more of the other ones, so you get to follow them as they take on new challenges.
Millie Ravensworth
Millie Ravensworth is the pen name of two authors who have been writing entertaining novels together for more than ten years. The Millie Ravensworth books focus on their shared love of crime stories and charming characters who readers love spending time with.
About the Book
Lyme Regis. One of Dorsetâs most beautiful towns, location of literary masterpieces including Persuasion and The French Lieutenantâs Woman. And now, the Lyme Regis womenâs swimming club.
Annie Abbott and her friends Figgy, Rosamund and Helen find themselves at the centre of more murder mysteries than is really healthy for a small group of women. Itâs a good job that Annieâs daughter Tina is a Detective Constable in Dorset major crimes investigation team.
Follow Annie and the ladies of the swimming club as they embark on a series of hilarious and twisty adventures. Featuring characters from the bestselling Dorset Crime series and perfect for fans of The Thursday Murder Club and Only Murders in the Building.
About the Venue
Arrive early to order food and drinks at the venue
Talk starts at 7pm with a book signing and Q&A after
Friday 25th April, 7pm
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Join us for an evening with two authors- Sophie Pavelle and Hannah Bourne-Taylor will be chatting with our bookseller Tim, about their new books.
About Sophie
Sophie Pavelle is a writer and science communicator. Sharing stories about British nature to wide audiences, she puts a contemporary twist on the natural history genre. Sophie works for Beaver Trust and presented their award-winning documentary Beavers Without Borders. She is also an Ambassador for the Wildlife Trusts and sits on the RSPB England Advisory Committee. Her writing has appeared in The Metro, BBC Countryfile, BBC Wildlife and Coast magazines. Her first book Forget Me Not was released in 2022, and her second book To Have or To Hold: Nature’s Hidden Relationships is due for release in May.
About Hannah
Hannah is an author and bird conservationist. She created The Feather Speech â the national conservation campaign to help swifts and the other endangered birds who share our walls that has become a national cause supported by 110,000 people, cross party politicians, and championed by Zac Goldsmith, covered across the media. She is a Trustee of Farmland Bird Aid Network, and has founded The Feather Speech Consultancy CIC. Her new book Nature Needs You is released in May.
About the Books
To Have Or To Hold- Sophie Pavelle
What can nature teach us about living together? Investigating eight symbiotic relationships trying to survive the climate and biodiversity crises, Sophie Pavelle explains why it has never been more vital for us to understand symbiosis. Symbiotic relationships regulate ecosystems, strengthen resilience and bind pivotal connections.
Species living together in symbiosis is no accident – these dynamics evolved. Species form and sever alliances everywhere, from deep within temperate rainforests to the open ocean, quiet tidal pools or chalk grasslands, and nature thrives on relationships as glamorous as they are grotesque and as bizarre as they are engrossing.
Nature Needs YouÂ
Nature Needs You tells the compelling story of how Hannah set out to save swifts from extinction in the UK. Her mission is to change the law and make âswift bricksâ mandatory so that the birds who nest in our walls will have a future in Britain. Nature Needs You delves into the highs and lows of trying to win hearts and minds, grab the news agenda with her naked Feather Speech, win Caroline Lucas and Lord Zac Goldsmithâs support, navigate meetings with Secretaries of State and debates in the Houses of Parliament, survive the trolling and midnight self-doubt and raise a petition with the requisite 100,000 signatures for a Parliamentary debate. At stake, with a decline in numbers of over 60% since 1995, are the birds who have become our symbol of summer, the swifts screaming in the skies above us.
Steeped in love for the wild, Nature Needs You is a clarion call to save the nature on our doorsteps and to prove that passion can be a superpower in bringing change to nature-depleted Britain.
Arrive early to order food and drinks at the venue
Talk starts at 6.30pm with a book signing and Q&A after