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SUMMARY:'THE LAST GREAT EVENT' Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:The 1970 Festival was a record-breaking event. It spanned five days and nights with an audience widely reported to have reached 600\,000. For the first time\, Ray Foulk delves into contemporary reports\, revealing the arguments that raged at both local and national level. His inside story concludes with the parliamentary battle to stop the Island event and the attempt to ban all open air festivals nationwide. \n“If you were one of the half a million music fans who made their way like raggle-taggle gypsies to the Isle of Wight 1970 then you will absolutely love this backstage look at a great moment in rock history.” Ray Connolly\,  Daily Mail
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/the-last-great-event-book-launch
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk,Book Launch
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SUMMARY:'Victory in Australia: the Remarkable Story of England's Greatest Ashes Triumph 1954-55'\, Author talk by Richard Whitehead
DESCRIPTION:The Ashes series of 1954–55 marked a watershed moment in the history of English cricket. Under the leadership of Len Hutton\, the national team’s first professional captain\, one of the greatest\ngroup of players ever to represent England won an Ashes series in Australia for the first time in more than 20 years. It is a feat that has been repeated only four times in more than 70 years since. But Hutton’s men had to overcome the additional obstacle of losing heavily in the first Test – only one England team has managed to win an overseas Ashes series after such a monumental setback. \nThe names of the cricketers who locked horns in 1954–55 resonate down the decades – Hutton’s team included Denis Compton\, Frank Tyson\, Brian Statham\, Trevor Bailey\, Godfrey Evans\, Peter May and Colin Cowdrey. Among their Australian opponents were Ray Lindwall\, Keith Miller\, Neil Harvey and Richie Benaud. In the 1950s\, these players were not just elite sportsmen\, they were household names. \nAn Ashes series for the ages is brought thrillingly to life in this momentous slice of sporting and social history. \nRichard Whitehead worked in newspapers for nearly 40 years\, spending 21 of them in a variety of senior roles at The Times\, including spells in the sport\, books and obituaries sections. He has been writing obituaries for Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack since 2012. His previous books include The Cup: a Pictorial Celebration of the World’s Greatest Football Tournament\, The Times on the Ashes and Warne in Wisden. \nMonday 14th July 6.30pm\nTickets £5 (refundable on the purchase of the book) \n‘Elegant and evocative … the definitive word on England’s most astonishing Ashes tour ever’ – Matthew Engel \n‘A wonderfully full-bodied account\, alert to every human and social as well as cricketing nuance’ – David Kynaston \n‘A masterpiece of research and narrative skill’ – Leo McKinstry \n‘An outstanding addition to cricket’s literature … Richard Whitehead marvellously recreates one of the great tours of the 20th century’ – Duncan Hamilton
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/victory-in-australia-the-remarkable-story-of-englands-greatest-ashes-triumph-1954-55-author-talk-by-richard-whitehead
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:Pages\, Plots and Publishing- A Panel of Local Authors
DESCRIPTION:Katie Daysh is an author of queer historical fiction\, focusing on the lives of men in the 19th century Royal Navy. Her Age of Sail series follows the lives and careers of Hiram Nightingale and Arthur Courtney. The first book\, Leeward\, was a Times Historical Novel of the Year 2023 and was shortlisted for the 2024 HWA Debut Crown Awards. She was born on the Isle of Wight and lives there.\nMary Grand is a bestselling author of murder mysteries set in the present time but in the style of classic whodunits. These are set on the Isle of Wight where she lives and writes\, and include a series featuring amateur detective Susan Flynn. Mary’s writing career started with three self-published novels starting with Free to be Tegan\, set in Wales where Mary was born and grew up.\nKathryn Rossati is a poet and author of young adult and children’s books\, including her latest release\, Naturally Nic/k\, out through the independent publisher Book Guild. She is neurodivergent and has hypermobility spectrum disorder. She lives on the Isle of Wight and is often found daydreaming or receiving ‘constructive’ criticism from her boisterous parrot and chatterbox budgie.\nAnna Britton is the author of Shot in the Dark and Close to the Edge\, part of her traditionally published crime series starring Gabe Martin and Juliet Stern. She also self-publishes under the name Annie Bennet\, focusing on cosy romance and fantasy. Something New\, the first in the Isle of Doughnut series\, is her first self-published novel.
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/pages-plots-and-publishing-a-panel-of-local-authors
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250704T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250704T210000
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SUMMARY:Figlet 4 Book Launch SOLD OUT
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT\nThis edition explores the theme “Feast or Famine” — and the evening promises a rich serving of spoken word performances from some of the island’s most exciting voices\, plus live music—and a chance to get your hands on the brand-new edition hot off the press.
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/figlet-4-book-launch
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk,Book Launch
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SUMMARY:'The Restless Coast' talk with author Roger Morgan-Grenville £5
DESCRIPTION:The island of Britain has over 10\,000 miles of coastline\, steeped in history and constantly shifting\, changing\, adapting and providing. The Restless Coast is a moving and beautiful account of a journey around it\, during which the author travels its length to discover its challenges and opportunities\, and to talk to the people trying to protect it. At once delightful travelogue and passionate defence\, The Restless Coast shines a powerful spotlight into the thin line that surrounds us\, and defines our status as islanders. \nOverarching the journey is the extraordinary natural history of the coastline\, together with the story of how man has imprinted himself on its very geology and shape for countless centuries. Into the account\, Roger Morgan-Grenville threads the modern challenges that the shoreline faces\, and the people who are trying to protect it. At once informative\, angry and funny\, The Restless Coast is a very personal love letter to our island edge.
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/the-restless-coast-talk-with-author-roger-morgan-grenville-5
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk,Book Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250427T190000
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SUMMARY:An Evening In The Company Of Marnie Riches
DESCRIPTION:When Gill Swanley decides to take up gardening to fight a midlife malaise\, she never expected it to become quite such a dangerous hobby.\nPushing herself to ‘get out there’\, Gill picks herself up the secateurs and joins the Bromley Botanists. Here she finds a seven-strong group whose main agenda is how to win the coveted Golden Trowel for best community club of the year.\nBut when a dead body turns up in the community greenhouse\, they suddenly have more serious matters to consider than victory. They must uncover whether their arch-rivals\, Croydon\, are taking things to another level or whether someone more dangerous is targeting their rag tag group.\nCan they dig up the truth before someone else is left pushing up the daisies? \nMarnie Riches grew up on a rough estate in north Manchester. Exchanging the spires of nearby Strangeways prison for those of Cambridge University\, she gained a Masters in German & Dutch. She has been a punk\, a trainee rock star\, a pretend artist and professional fundraiser. Aside from literary pursuits\, gardening is her passion.\nMarnie’s award-winning crime-thriller debut\, The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die\, is ten years old this spring\, and in that decade she has become a bestselling contributor to the genre\, with four critically acclaimed series and hundreds of thousands of books sold in the UK alone. The Gardeners’ Club – a must-read for Richard Osman fans – may be Marnie’s twelfth murder mystery\, but it is her first foray into cosy crime…with a horticultural twist!\nWhen she isn’t writing about murder most foul\, Marnie teaches academic writing for the Royal Literary Fund. She has been a course tutor and supervisor for Cambridge University’s Masters in crime- and thriller-writing. She teaches crime-writing for New Writing North and has also taught the Faber Novel Writing Course. She pens historical romance under the pseudonym\, Maggie Campbell.\nwww.marnieriches.com
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/an-evening-in-the-company-of-marnie-riches
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk,Book Launch
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SUMMARY:'Wild Seas\, Wilder Cities' Book Launch Event
DESCRIPTION:Wild Seas\, Wilder Cities takes an upbeat look at the small changes that ordinary people are making which add up to create a healthier\, happier and more sustainable world. Many talented writers and poets have contributed and many different tales are told. The launch is an opportunity to mix with fellow readers\, authors and poets\, and to learn more about what’s happening on the Isle of Wight\, in the Solent and across the water.
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/wild-seas-wilder-cities-book-launch-event
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk,Book Launch,Fundraiser
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Armfield":MAILTO:paul@medinapublishing.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250411T190000
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SUMMARY:An Evening Of Conversation And Music With Ian A Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Ian A. Anderson – no\, not that one! – began his solo musical career in the mid 1960s\, heavily influenced by old country blues players\, before taking a left-swerve in the early ’70s into what nowadays gets called ‘psych folk’\, with a trio of songwriter/ guitarist albums for the pioneering and now highly collectable independent label Village Thing.\nHe eventually settled into a personal – and notably English – style\, drawing from traditional folk\, blues\, old-time and world roots musics\, making some dozen albums by the end of the 1980s with groups Hot Vultures (with Maggie Holland)\, the English Country Blues Band and Tiger Moth. Then after a break from live performances in the 1990s he returned to stages and recording this century\, with the trio Blue Blokes 3 (with PiL’s Lu Edmonds and 3 Mustaphas 3’s Ben Mandelson)\, the duo The False Beards (again with Mandelson)\, a re-union tour by Hot Vultures in 2016 and a very effective double-header partnership with Northumbrian traditional music master Alistair Anderson as Not The Anderson Twins.\nOver the years he’s appeared in multiple guises at most of the UK’s important folk/roots venues and festivals (from the very first Glastonbury to Cambridge\, Sidmouth\, Shrewsbury\, WOMAD and many more). Since 2017\, he’s been enjoying performing and recording solo again\, with repertoire and tales drawn from across those sixty years of experience.\nTwo recent well-received compilation CDs – Onwards! and Onwards Vol 2: A Crown Of Crows (on Ghosts From The Basement) – range over his entire recording career\, and all his early solo albums were re-issued as the 4-CD boxed set Please Re-adjust Your Time by Cherry Red in 2021.\nHe now lives in Cambridge\, from where he also produces and presents the long-running Podwireless podcast – covering “the world of folk\, roots music and associated weirdos.”\nIan received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Folk Alliance International in 2019\, the Gold Badge Award of the English Folk Dance & Song Society in 2015 and the Womex Award in 2010.\nHis long-awaited book ALIEN WATER: Six Decades Paddling In Unpopular Music is published by Ghosts From The Basement in 2025.
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/an-evening-of-conversation-and-music-with-ian-a-anderson
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk,Music
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SUMMARY:'A Victorian Christmas' with Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the holiday like a Victorian with authentic dishes and customs beloved by all\, from the working classes to the royal family. \nIn 1843\, while Dickens was inventing the Christmas ghost story\, a London civil servant commissioned the first Christmas card and Windsor Castle displayed artificial Christmas trees and served turkeys for Christmas dinner. During the next five years\, the first recipe for Christmas pudding appeared\, Christmas crackers debuted\, and a London newspaper showcased Christmas trees to the world. \nHawksley explores these customs and more so you can experience the season authentically to period. Feast on Roast Goose with Sage and Onion Stuffing\, Brussels Sprouts on Buttered Toast\, and Christmas Cake while sipping a Cratchit Christmas Twist or Smoking Bishop Punch. Craft Golden Walnuts\, Kissing Bunches\, and Pomanders. Play board games such as Balderdash and Pachisi or parlor games including Charades and Snapdragon. Take a Christmas swim or sing “Christmastide” by Christina Rossetti. Meticulously researched\, this festive collection will make your yuletide merry.
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/a-victorian-christmas-with-lucinda-dickens-hawksley
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk
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SUMMARY:The Triple Crones Presents...Performance & Book Launch (new date 19th November)
DESCRIPTION:Ajeana\, Crone of Rural Spaces welcomes you to her Cronewood lairwith tales of big bad wolves and arachnophobic women. In her other guise\, Jean G-Owen is a writer and publisher at Naked Figleaf Press. Her poetry collection Bites of Love: Poems & Images was published in 2023. \nCass\, Crone of the Sea\, surges from the great sea swell with tales of oyster festivals and warnings to maidens. In her other guise\, Sandy Kealty had been writing and performing on IOW for over twenty years. She has published The Mermaid is Unimpressed and The Mermaid Rides Again. \nFlamenco\, Crone of Urban Spaces\, rises phoenix-like to bring colour\, carnival and comedy to the Cronedom. In her other guise\, Cheryl May writes comedy scripts published by Lazy Bee Scripts. She has recently published her debut poetry collection\, Not Just Desserts. \nHolly Medland Lees is a storyteller from IOW with a keen interest in medieval and local history. She loves stories of the sea and tales with a twist. She’ll be telling two tales of Middle Age wily women who both have a point to prove. \nTina Goode started her musical life in early childhood. In recent years she sings and plays with IOW folk trio Second Time Around. On rare occasions\, Tina enjoys solo performances\, and will be bringing her beautiful sounds to the Cronedom.
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/the-triple-crones-presents-performance-book-launch
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk,Book Launch,Music
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED 'The Wihtwara Dynasty. The complete saga.' talk by Jan Harper Whale
DESCRIPTION:The Wihtwara Dynasty. The complete saga. The suppressed His-story of an entire race of people on the Isle of Wight\nThis is Her-story.\nAfter seven years of intense research\, amazing new evidence has come to light to offer a truer definition of our Ancestors:The Wihtwara. \n 
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/the-wihtwara-dynasty-the-complete-saga-talk-by-jan-harper-whale
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk
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SUMMARY:'Two Authors' Anna Britton and Sarah Lawton in discussion.
DESCRIPTION:Anna Britton \nAnna Britton lives on the Isle of Wight with her husband and their chronically clumsy Labrador. An avid reader\, she began writing around ten years ago and hadn’t stopped since. Anna works as a freelance editor and loves helping out other authors. When not filling her head with stories\, she enjoys baking (and eating) cakes and exploring rivers in her kayak.\nClose To The Edge is the second book featuring detectives DS Gabe Martin and DI Juliet Stern. Two detectives under fire. One missing student. No answers. Chaos breaks out as DS Gabe Martin leaves Southampton Crown Court. Gunshots ring out. She and DI Juliet Stern are hit. The culprit disappears without a trace. Despite her injuries\, Gabe is determined to work. She’s assigned to the search for missing art student Henry Garside. As she delves into his case\, it becomes clear nothing about the investigation is as it seems. Is Henry’s disappearance an isolated incident? Was the shooting a simple act of retribution – or is there some far bigger and more sinister at play? When Juliet asks for her help in the search for their shooter\, Gabe feels powerless to refuse\, even if it means meddling where she shouldn’t. Increasingly caught between her loyalty to Juliet and her job\, Gabe becomes dangerously close to crossing a line… \nSarah Lawton\nA Drowning Tide is Sarah Lawton’s debut crime novel\, set on the Isle of Wight where the author grew up and introducing protagonist Merry\, a reclusive fifty-something woman who finds solace in writing cryptic crosswords as a living and the pleasure of wild swimming. Merry’s life\, though\, is about to take a very different and unexpected path. When her neighbour\, Lucas Manning – son of her late best friend\, Julia – goes missing\, Merry finds herself caught up in the search for his whereabouts\, questioned by police and forming an unlikely alliance with a private investigator called Gareth to look for him. But what Merry doesn’t know is that finding Lucas will expose all her own deeply buried secrets\, resulting in mortal danger and a thrilling twist.\nAuthor Sarah Lawton is one of 3% of the population who are aphantasic\, and therefore unable to form mental images of real or imaginary people\, places or things. For Sarah\, her lack of visual imagination has drawn her to pursue a creative career and has been helpful to her writing rather than a hindrance. She seeks out real places to describe in her own words\, and her memories are visceral rather than visual\, relating to feelings\, sensations and smells\, which all contribute to the striking detail of her writing. Needing to write about somewhere she knew and still drawn to the water\, Sarah chose to set her debut crime novel on the island where she grew up\, where the scent of the sea is never far away and\, whilst picturesque\, has\, like most places\, its dark side\, too.\nThe novel is an unputdownable brainteaser\, and readers can follow Merry’s journey whilst puzzling over the cryptic clues throughout.
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/two-authors-anna-britton-and-sarah-lawton-in-discussion
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240820T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240820T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240723T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240723T203000
DTSTAMP:20240707T101443Z
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SUMMARY:'The Story of 2-Tone' with author Daniel Rachel
DESCRIPTION:Author Daniel Rachel discusses his definitive book about a label and musical movement that shaped British culture. Developed in Coventry in the late 70’s\, 2 Tone was black and white: a multi-racial mix of British and Caribbean musicians singing about social issues\, racism\, class and gender struggles. One for all Rudies out there! \nWith book signing\, and DJ’s spinning your favourite ska\, rocksteady\, dub and reggae tunes. \nTickets available here The Story of Two Tone with author Daniel Rachel (littleboxoffice.com)
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/the-story-of-2-tone-with-author-daniel-rachel
LOCATION:Isle of Wight
CATEGORIES:Author talk,Music
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Armfield":MAILTO:paul@medinapublishing.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240719T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240719T200000
DTSTAMP:20240707T095920Z
CREATED:20240707T095920Z
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SUMMARY:'The Isle of Wight: Women\, History\, Books and Places': talk with author Susanna Hoe at Ventnor Library
DESCRIPTION:A comprehensive\, fascinating and very readable history of the interesting women who have resided on the Isle of Wight. The Island is sometimes known as Dinosaur Isle.’ It has also been called ‘Ghost Island’\, and there are plenty of those\, and of witches burnt at the stake\, and smugglers – all aptly named ‘Outsiders’. \nNuns and philanthropists find their place\, as does a notable pioneer photographer and a now recognised marine engineer\, powerboat racers\, aviatrixes\, sailors\, those campaigning for women’s suffrage\, and a spy or two\, one of whom was nearly hanged. Come along to this talk to hear from the author Susanna Hoe about collating this history of IOW Women together. \nTickets from Ventnor Fringe The Isle of Wight: Women\, History\, Books and Places (littleboxoffice.com) \n 
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/the-isle-of-wight-women-history-books-and-places-talk-with-author-susanna-hoe-at-ventnor-library
LOCATION:Ventnor Library\, 142 High Street\, Ventnor\, Isle of Wight\, PO381LZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Armfield":MAILTO:paul@medinapublishing.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240515T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240515T203000
DTSTAMP:20240504T112909Z
CREATED:20240317T162303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240504T112909Z
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SUMMARY:Talk by Liz Barron: The MV Princess Victoria Disaster: The Isle of Wight Remembers
DESCRIPTION:The loss of the Stranraer/Larne car ferry the Princess Victoria in a storm-lashed Irish Sea more than 70 years ago has surprising resonance on the Isle of Wight today. The disaster–the worst in UK waters since the Second World War–claimed 133 lives. Among the lost was Sir Walter Smiles MP\, much loved grandfather of Bembridge resident Lady Sally Grylls who was 11 years old when the ferry foundered on 31st January 1953. Only 44 people survived the wreck–33 of them rescued by the Sir Samuel Kelly Lifeboat and her courageous crew from Donaghadee\, County Down. The ‘Kelly\, a Watson Class Lifeboat\, was built in Cowes in the Samuel White and Co. boatyard. Join us to hear the continuing story of an Island lifeboat built to last–and a cherished family member who died within sight of his own seaside home.
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/talk-by-liz-baron-the-mv-princess-victoria-disaster-the-isle-of-wight-remembers
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Armfield":MAILTO:paul@medinapublishing.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240501T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240501T210000
DTSTAMP:20240421T103639Z
CREATED:20240329T151711Z
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SUMMARY:'Travels with Maridadi: Harley-Davidson Adventures in Arabia' Talk by Bizzie Frost
DESCRIPTION:After a botched spinal operation left her partially paralysed aged forty-five\, Bizzie Frost found herself unable to enjoy the active lifestyle she loved in Saudi Arabia. That was remedied six years later when her airline captain husband\, Frosty\, proposed they buy a Harley-Davidson. An invitation to join friends on a 2\,500km ride to Oman was irresistible and they bought a customised Road King. They named her Maridadi\, meaning ‘beautiful’ in Swahili. \nTravels with Maridadi is an epic account of their adventures on Maridadi in Saudi Arabia\, a country rarely visited by outsiders during the thirty years that Bizzie called it home. Riding pillion with Frosty\, she travelled thousands of kilometres across the deserts and mountains of the Kingdom\, UAE\, Oman\, Jordan\, Syria and Lebanon. Her stories and photographs breathe life into the people and scenery\, and explain the differences between the cultures of these Middle Eastern countries. Above all\, they convey the freedom and healing power of motorcycling on the open road.
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/travels-with-maridadi-harley-davidson-adventures-in-saudi-arabia-talk-by-bizzie-frost
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Armfield":MAILTO:paul@medinapublishing.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240422T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240422T210000
DTSTAMP:20240418T202032Z
CREATED:20240330T122201Z
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SUMMARY:Event Cancelled 'PAGE OF SAIL' with authors Francesca De Tores\, Katie Daysh and J.D. Davies
DESCRIPTION:Francesca De Tores is a novelist\, poet and academic. She is the author of four previous novels\, published in more than 20 languages. Saltblood is her first historical novel\, breathing life into the Golden Age of Piracy\, it is a wild adventure\, a treasure trove\, weaving an intoxicating tale of gender and survival\, passion and loss\, journeys and transformation\, through the story of the piratical Mary Read\, one of history’s most remarkable figures. \nKatie Daysh is an author from the Isle of Wight who loves to explore unheard voices in fiction. In her main genre\, historical fiction\, she enjoys placing queer characters at the heart of the narrative. Her stories are often set on the sea and illuminate themes of friendship\, loyalty and mental health issues. Her debut novel\, the Age of Sail adventure ‘Leeward’ was a Times historical novel of the year 2023\, best-selling author Conn Iggulden described it as ‘An extraordinary work\, absolutely breathtaking … it beggars belief’. \nJ. D. Davies is an historian and author. Born in in Llanelli on the coast of south-west Wales\, a treacherous coast notorious for shipwrecks\, the sea has always exerted a strong pull on his life and a fascination with warships and naval history can probably be dated to a family holiday in Portsmouth. He found that very little had been published about the seventeenth century navy since the 1920s\, and that most of the books that did exist seemed to side unthinkingly with Samuel Pepys\, accepting uncritically his opinions and evidence about the issues of the time. He has written factual books about the period and has now started a series of naval fiction also set in the time of Charles II and the Anglo-Dutch Wars. \n 
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/page-of-sail-with-authors-francesca-de-tores-katie-daysh-and-j-d-davies
LOCATION:Menuhin Room\, Menuhin Room\, Central Library\, Portsmouth\, Hampshire\, PO12DX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Armfield":MAILTO:paul@medinapublishing.com
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240421T210000
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SUMMARY:'PAGE OF SAIL' with authors Katie Daysh and J.D. Davies
DESCRIPTION:Katie Daysh is an author from the Isle of Wight who loves to explore unheard voices in fiction. In her main genre\, historical fiction\, she enjoys placing queer characters at the heart of the narrative. Her stories are often set on the sea and illuminate themes of friendship\, loyalty and mental health issues. Her debut novel\, the Age of Sail adventure ‘Leeward’ was a Times historical novel of the year 2023\, best-selling author Conn Iggulden described it as ‘An extraordinary work\, absolutely breathtaking … it beggars belief’. \nJ. D. Davies is an historian and author. Born in in Llanelli on the coast of south-west Wales\, a treacherous coast notorious for shipwrecks\, the sea has always exerted a strong pull on his life and a fascination with warships and naval history can probably be dated to a family holiday in Portsmouth. He found that very little had been published about the seventeenth century navy since the 1920s\, and that most of the books that did exist seemed to side unthinkingly with Samuel Pepys\, accepting uncritically his opinions and evidence about the issues of the time. He has written factual books about the period and has now started a series of naval fiction also set in the time of Charles II and the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/page-of-sail-with-authors-katie-daysh-and-j-d-davies
LOCATION:Medina Bookshop\, 50 High Street\, Cowes\, Isle of Wight\, PO31 7RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Armfield":MAILTO:paul@medinapublishing.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240412T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240412T200000
DTSTAMP:20240408T153744Z
CREATED:20240225T154641Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED 'ROSE\, CASTLE & CROWN' Author Talk with Patrick Crowley
DESCRIPTION:Rose\, Castle and Crown is a unique history of the part-time soldier of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight\, from the time of the militia\, yeomanry and volunteer\, through to the Territorial Army and today’s Army Reserve. This is all placed in the wider context of the British Army’s history. For centuries\, the country has defended its shores with a mixture of regular and auxiliary soldiers\, but little has been written about the latter\, particularly in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. All military volunteers\, throughout history\, have had to balance the requirement of their service with family demands and their main civilian employment. This book tells their story\, including: \n\nThe three brothers in the Isle of Wight Rifles who were all killed on the same day in Gallipoli 1915\, inspiring the film ‘Saving Private Ryan’.\nThe local Militia who destroyed a French invasion on the Isle of Wight in 1545.\nThe 4\,000 Isle of Wight men volunteered to join the Home Guard at the start of the Second World War\nThe local mayor who\, with the support of local militia and some sailors\, captured Carisbrooke Castle in the English Civil War.\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n. \n  \n 
URL:https://medinabookshop.com/event/rose-castle-crown-author-talk-with-patrick-crowley
LOCATION:Drill Hall Newport\, Drill Hall Lane\, Newport\, Isle of Wight\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Author talk
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ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Armfield":MAILTO:paul@medinapublishing.com
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