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SUMMARY:'Letters To Margaret - Confessions To My Late Wife' Hunter Davies Author Talk ----- (SOLD OUT)
DESCRIPTION:At the end of almost every day of their fifty-five years of married life\, the publicity-shy author Margaret Forster would ask her naturally gregarious and outgoing husband Hunter Davies to describe to her the highlights of his working day spent in the worlds of journalism and publishing. In the six years that have elapsed since Margaret’s death\, Hunter has continued these conversations with his wife\, regaling her with accounts of the events and developments in his life – domestic\, social\, romantic\, book-related\, health-related and others – through a sequence of ‘Letters to Margaret’. Whether recounting adventures in online dating\, the pleasures and pitfalls of buying a new house by the seaside\, the trauma of major operations on his heart and gall bladder\, a chance encounter at a book-signing session that led to a new romantic attachment\, or a visit to A&E when he was supposed to be watching the World Cup final\, these twenty-three letters weave together strands of confession\, self-mockery\, anecdote and touching remembrance of married happiness with Margaret. \nLetters to Margaret reveals Hunter Davies raging happily against the dying of the light in his late eighties\, and seeking consolation for life’s frustrations and disappointments through a sustained conversation with the woman he shared his life with for more than half a century.
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/letters-to-margaret-confessions-to-my-late-wife-hunter-davies-author-talk
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk,Book Launch
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Armfield":MAILTO:paul@medinapublishing.com
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SUMMARY:'The Age Of Caravans- Tippu Tip' Film Screening and Talk by Film-Maker Joachim Puls
DESCRIPTION:Tippu Tip\, notorious to some\, intriguing to others\, was a Zanzibari Arab trader living in the turbulent and rapidly changing Africa of the late 19th century. \nHe was chiefly an ivory trader\, who pioneered for new sources through present-day Tanzania into the Congo basin. \nSlavery is part of his story\, because Arab traders of the time used slaves as porters and sold slaves through the market in Zanzibar to work locally in plantations and beyond in the Gulf and Persia. \nHe was a pioneer of discovery\, both in Arab terms and because this was the great period of European exploration in East and Central Africa: he assisted most of the famous explorers\, including Livingstone and Stanley\, when it served his interests. He can be seen as an Afro-Arab exponent of empire\, as his commercial ambitions could only be realized by means of Arab territorial control and colonization. \nHis colourful life culminated in his engagement as governor of a province in the ‘Congo Free State’ of the Belgian King Leopold\, and in his involvement in Stanley’s astonishing expedition to relieve Emin Pasha\, governor of the Egyptian southern province of Equatoria. \nUniquely among Arabs and Africans of this era\, Tippu Tip wrote an autobiography.
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/the-age-of-caravans-tippu-tip-film-screening-and-talk-by-film-maker-joachim-puls
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk,Fim Screening
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Armfield":MAILTO:paul@medinapublishing.com
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