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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240719T180000
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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
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240422T190000
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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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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
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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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