Venue: Cobbled Courtyard, Hatchlands Park, East Clandon GU4 7RT
Date: Saturday 18 August 2018
Time: 20.30 - 22.30, gates open at 19.45
Tickets: Full price £10
Sit back and enjoy this 1980s high school comedy, in the historic cobbled courtyard at Hatchlands Park. Please bring your own chair and wrap up warm!
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Venue: On the Lawn, Hatchlands Park, East Clandon GU4 7RT
Date: 23 August 2018
Time: 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Cost:Cost: Adults: £12.00; Children 3-17: £8.00 Family: £32 (family 2 adults & 2 children or 1 adult and 3 children) Family ticket automatically calculated when in basket
Please bring your own seats or a rug. You are welcome to bring your own picnic. Refreshments will be served in the interval. Gates open at 5.30pm.
Bring a picnic and enjoy this colourful family show full of music, puppetry and wonderful characters performed by Folksy Theatre on the lawn at Hatchlands Park.
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Venue: Cobbled Courtyard, Hatchlands Park, East Clandon GU4 7RT
Date: Saturday 1 September 2018
Time: 20.00 - 22.00, gates open at 19.15
Tickets: Full price £10
Sit back and enjoy this 80s action packed classic film, Back to the Future, in the historic cobbled courtyard at Hatchlands Park. Please bring your own chair and wrap up warm!
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Venue: Hatchlands Park, East Clandon GU4 7RT
Date: Wednesday 5 September 2018
Time: 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Cost: Adults: £7.00; Children 3-17: £4.00
Take a twilight walk through the parkland with our senior gardener and see how many bat species you can spot. Bat detectors are provided.
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Venue: Meet at Tunsgate Arch, High Street Guildford - opposite the Guildford Clock
Date: Tuesday 14 August and Tuesday 11 September 2018 at 2:30pm (Duration: 90 minutes)
Cost: FREE EVENT but booking is essential.
Please note that although the walk is mainly downhill, because of uneven ground, the walk is unsuitable for people with limited mobility. Approximately two thirds of a mile (1 km)
An exploration of the cultural heritage of Guildford. A discovery of the local connections of some extraordinary figures.
Venue: Onslow Village Hall, The Square, Wilderness Road, Guildford, GU2 7QR
Date: Wednesday 12 September 2018.
Time: 7.30pm. Lecture starts promptly at 8pm
Tickets: Full price: £10, students £3
This story has a plot worthy of Agatha Christie. These Grade I listed modernist flats have been home to numerous writers, intellectuals, civil servants and others but the new housing concept became home to a nest of Soviet spies. Deborah Lambert explores the history and exposes the darker side of life in NW3!
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Venue: Music Room, Hatchlands Park, East Clandon GU4 7RT
Date: Thursday 20 September 2018
Time: 7.30pm - 10pm
Cost: Adults: £8.00
An indoor screening of a 2005 adaptation of this 1759 classic novel followed by some lively debate. Enjoy a drink on arrival.
Please show your ticket at the door.
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Venue: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, Guildford GU1 3RR.
Date: Saturday 29 September 2018 Time: 7.30pm.
Tickets: Full price £15, Students £7.50
A magical, musical evening featuring professional soloists performing songs, arias and duets in this beautiful venue in the centre of Guildford.
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Venue: Guildford United Reformed Church, 83 Portsmouth Road, Guildford GU2 4BS
Date: Friday 5 October 2018 Time: 19.30
Tickets: Full price: £12, Students £3, children 4 to 16 free with accompanying adult
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Surrey Hills Enterprise
Venue: Fishpond Copse (within Cranleigh Showground)Date: Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 October Time: 10.00 - 17.00
Price: £7.50 before 12 noon on Friday 5 October - £10.00 on the door. Under 12's: Free
Tickets are for one day only. Tickets can be used for either the Saturday or Sunday.
Celebrate all that's good about wood in the beautiful setting of woodland and meadows in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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Date: Saturday 6 October 2018
Time: Talk starts at 18:15 -19:15
Tickets: Full price £10.00; students and jobseekers £9.00 - Book Leonard Bernstein Centenary Gala concert and talk together and save £5.00
Ahead of tonight's concert acclaimed broadcaster, Humphrey Burton, provides a fascinating insight into the life of Leonard Bernstein, composer, pianist and conductor without peer. A friend and colleague of Bernstein's for many years, Burton was given exclusive access to letters and papers, and interviewed family and friends, to write the definitive biography. The result is an intriguing and revealing portrait of one of the twentieth century's most influential figures.
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Guildford Book Festival
Venue: Coach House in the Courtyard, Hatchlands Park, East Clandon GU4 7RT
Date: Sunday 7 October 2018
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Tickets: Full Price £7.00, Jobseekers and Students £6.30, Child 8 - 18 £6.30
Suitable for children 8+
How well do you know the humble beetle? Did you know they are one of the most important creatures on the planet? That some are super strong, able to pull a thousand times their own weight? That some are able to light up the night sky and others are able to navigate using the Milky Way? Come and discover the wonderful world of beetles with M. G. Leonard, author of the bestselling Beetle Boy, Beetle Queen and Battle of the Beetles, in an hour of fun, facts and stories.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, Guildford GU4 7RTDate: Sunday 7 October Time: 12.30 - 13.30
Price: £10.00, £9.00 for students and jobseekers
Age 12+
A valuable and fun skill, foraging is an adventure that all the family can enjoy, and it’s free to do. Writer and naturalist Tiffany Francis will lead a walking tour of Hatchlands Park helping you identify and find food in the wild, and make the most of your time outdoors. She will point out birds and other wildlife along the way, and even give you recipes to try with your finds.
Please note numbers are strictly limited so early booking is recommended.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZDate: Sunday 7 October Time: 15.00 - 16.00
Price: £8.00, £7.20 for students and jobseekers
150 years on from Lewis Carroll's arrival in Guildford Matt Pinches, Co-Founder of the Guildford Shakespeare Company, discusses the writer's unique relationship with our town and the return of Guildford Shakespeare Company's Alice in Wonderland, a multi-venue theatre production, starting 13 October.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Waterstones Guildford, 71-73 High Street, Guildford GU1 3DY
Date: Sunday 7 October Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Price: Full price: £7.00; Children, Students and Job Seekers: £6.30
Age 3+
Join author/illustrator Bryony Thomson to hear about the inspiration for The Wardrobe Monster, a reassuring story for all children who imagine monsters in the darkness. Come dressed for a bedtime story and leave with your own friendly wardrobe monster.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZDate: Sunday 7 October Time: 16.30 - 17.30
Price: £10.00, £9.00 for students and jobseekers
Journalist Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni and novelist Tom Rachman discuss the contemporary art world and what makes an artist. Former European editor of Harper's Bazaar, and daughter of Lady Antonia Fraser, Natasha worked at the Andy Warhol Studio in New York, and witnessed the end of an era, the wrangles over his estate, and the establishment of a global phenomenon. Her story is told in After Andy: Adventures in Warhol Land.
In Tom's funny and heart-wrenching novel, The Italian Teacher, the main protagonist is a leading artist, driven by work, adored by fans, but ruthlessly indifferent to his family, until fate plays a hand. A thought-provoking talk that will challenge the very idea of greatness.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Brew House (accessed through the Tourist Office, 155 High Street, Guildford GU1 3AJ)Date: Monday 8th to Friday 12th October Time: 10.00 - 12 noon
Price: £16 per session (or £72 for all five sessions booked in advance), For students and jobseekers £14.40/£64.80
If you have always wanted to write but not sure where to start then why not join us on our creative writing course being held over five weekday mornings during the Festival. Run by Rachel Marsh of the University of Surrey, each lesson will focus on a different aspect of the writing process. You can take part in as many lessons as you like although reductions apply if you stay for the whole week Classes are practical in nature so come prepared with paper and pen. NB These classes sold out quickly last year so be sure to book early.
Monday: Introduction/Getting Started
Tuesday: Character Development
Wednesday: Writing Dialogue
Thursday: The Plot
Friday: Editing
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Guildford Harbour Hotel, Alexandra Terrace, Guildford GU1 3DADate: Monday 8 October 2018 Time: 12.30 - 15.00
Price: £35.00
Enjoy a two-course lunch in the entertaining company of renowned journalist and broadcaster, Jenni Murray, and TV host and businessman, Nick Hewer. Hosted by Paul Blezard.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Brew House (accessed through the Tourist Office, 155 High Street, Guildford GU1 3AJ)Date: Monday 8th and Thursday 11th October Time: 13.30 - 16.30
Price: £42 for both sessions (or £23 for Monday only) £37.80/£21.15 for students and jobseekers
As the two sessions are linked it won't be possible to take Thursday's class without attending on Monday.
Aimed at those who have taken a creative writing class previously, whether at the Guildford Book Festival or elsewhere, or who are looking for support beyond the beginner stages. The classes will focus on personal writing goals with a combination of group discussions and individual feedback but all in a friendly and supportive environment. You are welcome to bring an existing project to develop, or start a piece of writing from scratch, but the aim will be to complete a small writing project by the end of the second class.
On Monday you will be set some small tasks to complete for Thursday but don’t worry, nobody is there to judge you, only to offer helpful advice and support.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZDate: Monday 8 October Time: 18.30 - 19.30
Price: Full price £15.00, £13.50 for students and jobseekers
Oleg Gordievsky was the greatest secret agent of the Cold War. A senior KGB officer he supplied British spymasters with priceless information from deep within the Soviet Intelligence machine. After a decade of being a double agent it was time to escape. So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in spying history. Leading historian and bestselling author Ben Macintyre reveals the full thrilling story that changed the course of the Cold War.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, GuildfordDate: Monday 8 October Time: 19.30 - 20.30
Price: £15.00 to include a glass of wine
Join Gill Sims, author of the number one bestsellers, Why Mummy Drinks, and the equally hilarious follow-up, Why Mummy Swears, (as well as the Peter and Jane blog), for an evening of lively conversation and a reviving glass of wine.
The new book sees Mummy’s marriage under strain, her kids running wild and the house falling apart. Can Mummy keep everything together? Or even find time for a G&T?
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZDate: Monday 8 October Time: 20.00 - 21.00
Price: £15.00, £13.50 for students and jobseekers
One of the most devastating international conflicts of the 20th century is reassessed by critically acclaimed author, Max Hastings. With personal accounts from warlords and peasants, statesmen and soldiers, and his own experiences as a journalist during the final evacuation of Saigon, he creates an extraordinary record of a human tragedy.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Upstairs at the Guildhall, High Street, GuildfordDate: Tuesday 9 October Time: 10.00 - 11.30
Price: £14.00 to include coffee and a sweet treat. No concessions.
Food blogger, Skye McAlpine, has called Venice home since childhood. Over coffee and sweet Italian treats Skye tells the story of her life in the city from plentiful markets to bustling cafes, and offers an insider’s perspective on Venetian home cooking. Her beautifully written debut book, A Table in Venice, includes 100 recipes typical of Skye’s cooking style: simple, fresh, colourful and enticing, designed to bring people together and create memories. Illustrated throughout with her own photographs it’s a book to savour and enjoy. www.frommydiningtable.com.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, Guildford GU1 3AADate: Tuesday 9 October Time: 12.30 - 13.30
Price: Full price £8.00, £7.20 for students and jobseekers
The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of our time. Uncovered in 1974 in Xian, China, the thousands of soldiers, chariots and horses depict the armies of the first Emperor of China, and were buried with him in 210 BC, to protect him in the afterlife. With unique access to leading Chinese archaeologists and historians Professor Burman gives a fascinating account of the famous site including the most recent excavations, theories and discoveries. He lives in Beijing.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, Guildford GU1 3AA
Date: Tuesday 9 October Time: 14.00 - 15.00
Price: £8.00, £7.20 for students and jobseekers
Verdun, the Somme, Passchendaele. These epic battles are such bywords for the First World War that – Jutland apart – we forget the role played by sea power in the war. Award-winning biographer and naval historian Jim Ring sets out to redress the balance, emphasising how the Royal Navy’s very existence was key to the survival of Britain and to eventual victory in 1918.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, Guildford GU1 3AADate: Tuesday 9 October Time: 15.30 - 16.30
Price: £8.00, £7.20 for students and jobseekers
Discover the lost history of the female pioneers of balloon flight who took to the skies more than a century before the first aeroplane left the ground. Through extensive research local author, Sharon Wright, has uncovered their brave, hilarious, tragic and downright bonkers adventures.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZDate: Tuesday 9 October Time: 18.30 - 19.30
Price: £15.00, £13.50 for students and jobseekers
We are delighted that renowned historian Alison Weir will return to Guildford this year to talk about the third of Henry VIII's queens, Jane Seymour. Drawing on new research Weir's latest novel casts fresh light on the young queen, betraying her as a young woman of courage and compassion, driven by the strength of her faith, and the belief that she can achieve some good in a wicked world. But, she is haunted by the fate of her predecessor. All will be well if only she can give the King what he wants - a son.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZDate: Tuesday 9 October Time: 20.00 - 21.00
Price: £15.00, £13.50 for students and jobseekers
Bryony Gordon in conversation with Jane Wenham-Jones.
Bryony Gordon was not a runner. A dawdler, a drinker, a smoker, yes. A runner, no. Recovering from the rollercoaster of laying her life bare in her bestselling mental health memoir, Mad Girl, she realised that getting outside, and moving her body, might just help banish her sadness. Less than a year after starting training, she ran the London Marathon.
In her funny and inspiring new memoir she talks about making the transition from loafer to runner, and how taking the first step is often the hardest.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, Guildford GU1 3AA
Date: Wednesday 10 October Time: 11.00 - 12.00
Price: £8.00, £7.20 for students and jobseekers
Join Ana Sampson and author and poet, Polly Clark, as they discuss the history of female poetry, with readings from favourite poets.
From the ancient world to the present day an array of innovative and inspirational women have written on friendship, protest, mental health, love and much more.
Under represented in previous anthologies their work has been bought together for the first time. Among those featured are Maya Angelou, Carol Ann Duffy, Grace Nichols, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, and Charlotte Bronte.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, Guildford GU1 3AA
Date: Wednesday 10 October Time: 12.30 - 13.30
Price: £8.00, £7.20 for students and jobseekers
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The dramatic true story of maverick spymaster Maxwell Knight, better known as ‘M’, and the inspiration for ‘M’ in James Bond. The talk will focus on the two women recruited by ‘M’ in the 1930s to penetrate the British Communist movement, and which led to the exposure of a Russian spy-ring. You can also discover whether you would make a good spy by way of an interactive quiz.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, Guildford GU1 3AA
Date: Wednesday 10 October Time: 14.00 - 15.00
Price: £8.00, £7.20 for students and jobseekers
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The role of women spies in 17th century Britain has largely been relegated to the footnotes of history, their gender rendering them above suspicion, enabling them to become all but invisible. Focussing on the key period covering the Civil War and the Restoration historian Akkerman reveals women not only played a key role in espionage, gathering intelligence crucial to domestic and national security, they proved extremely successful at it.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Wey Poets: All Change!
Venue: Friends Meeting House, 3 Ward Street, Guildford GU1 4HL
Date: Wednesday 10 October 2018
Time: 14.00 - 16.30
Price: Full Price £4, Students and Jobseekers £3 (including tea/coffee and biscuits)
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, GuildfordDate: Wednesday 10 October Time: 15.30 - 16.30
Price: £8.00, £7.20 for students and jobseekers
Food and travel writer Nina Caplan goes in search of the origins of our love affair with wine. From Champagne's ancient chalk to the young vineyards of England, from the mountains of Italy and rocky Spanish slopes she explains how wine is indivisible from civilisation and can offer a window on ourselves and on our past.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Royal Grammar School, High Street, Guildford GU1 3BB
Date: Wednesday 10 October Time: 18.30 - 19.30
Price: £12.00, £10.80 for students and jobseekers
We are apes and share a common evolution with the rest of creation yet, 45,000 years ago something happened. We dragged ourselves away from our origins by creating culture, tools, art and abstract thought. Popular science writer and broadcaster, and host of Radio 4’s Inside Science, Adam Rutherford explores what sets us apart in the animal kingdom, and what it means to be human.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZDate: Wednesday 10 October Time: 18.30 - 19.30
Price: £15.00, £13.50 for students and jobseekers
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Highly-acclaimed author Kate Mosse, talks to Stephanie Merritt (aka S J Parris) about her number one bestselling novel, The Burning Chambers. Bringing 16th century Languedoc vividly to life it's a gripping story of love and betrayal, mysteries and secrets, conspiracies and divided loyalties.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZDate: Wednesday 10 October Time: 20.00 - 21.00
Price: £15.00, £13.50 for students and jobseekers
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Bestselling crime writers M J Arlidge and Stephanie Merritt (aka S J Parris) talk to Elly Griffiths about the best ways to build suspense and keep the reader gripped to the end, as well as their latest books, Arlidge's Down to the Woods, the eighth in the DI Helen Grace series, and Merritt's While You Sleep, a chilling, psychological thriller. Elly Griffiths' latest title is The Dark Angel, the 10th in the Dr Ruth Galloway series.
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Venue: Onslow Village Hall, The Square, Wilderness Road, Guildford, GU2 7QR
Date: Wednesday 10th October 2018 Time: Doors open for coffee and socialising at 7.15pm. Lectures starts promptly at 8pm
Tickets: Full price: £10.00
Caroline Shenton - Find out how suffragettes won electoral equality by and through art.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, Guildford GU1 3AA
Date: Thursday 11 October Time: 11.00 - 12.00
Price: £8.00, £7.20 for students and jobseekers
What is it about the humble pig that holds such a special place in our hearts? In this magical account of the Saddleback pigs that live on her farm Helen Browning, a leading pioneer of organic farming and Chief Executive of the Soil Association, shines a light on the secret lives of these mischievous, intelligent and inventive animals. She also shares her vision for the future of ethical farming.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, Guildford GU1 3AA
Date: Thursday 11 October Time: 12.30 - 13.30
Price: £8.00, £7.20 for students and jobseekers
A call to arms to end the plastic pandemic from journalist, eco expert and BBC One's The One Show regular, Lucy Siegle. Without urgent action, at the current rate, pieces of plastic will outnumber fish in the ocean by 2050. If you don’t want this to be your legacy find out how you can make meaningful change in your life, and turn the tide on plastic.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Guildord Library, North Street
Date: Thursday 11 October 2018 Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Price: Full price: £5.00; Students and Job Seekers: £4.50
'The literary equivalent of strawberries and cream' Bookish Jottings.
One of Britain's most popular romantic fiction writers, Emma Burstall talks about her career as journalist and full-time novelist, and her latest book, A Cornish Secret, the fourth in her heart-warming series, set in the Cornish seaside village of Tremarnock.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, Guildford GU1 3AA
Date: Thursday 11 October Time: 14.00 - 15.00
Price: £8.00, £7.20 for students and jobseekers
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Between 1881 and 1921, Winston Churchill and his mother, Jennie, were prolific and energetic correspondents. Beginning when Winston was six, and ending in the year of his mother’s death, their letters - some reproduced here for the first time - trace Churchill’s emotional, intellectual and political development, and shed new light on the future premier.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, Guildford GU1 3AA
Date: Thursday 11 October Time: 15.30 - 16.30
Price: £8.00, £7.20 for students and jobseekers
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In the summer of 1940, Britain stood perilously close to coming under Hitler's control. While the invasion on mainland Britain never happened for the residents of the Channel Islands occupation became a terrifying reality. This is the extraordinary story of how the 50,000 Islanders coped under Nazi occupation for five long years.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Harbour Hotel Long Bar Late, Guildford SurreyDate: Thursday 11 October Time: 18:15 - 19:45
Price: £18.00 includes a "Thriller" cocktail
Join bestselling authors Adele Parks and Tasmina Perry over cocktails as they chat about their psychological thrillers, I Invited Her In and Friend of the Family, respectively. Adele’s gripping novel is a dark, unsettling tale which sees a reunion of long-lost friends turn into jealousy and revenge; Tasmina’s a twisty page-turner as doubts arise over a family friend who may not be a friend at all.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZDate: Thursday 11 October Time: 18.30 - 19.30
Price: £15.00, £13.50 for students and jobseekers
The bestselling author of more than 50 novels, Bernard Cornwell, talks to broadcaster Michael Buerk about his life as a writer and his latest work, War of the Wolf. The eleventh novel in The Last Kingdom series, set in Saxon England, finds Uhtred facing a formidable new enemy, and at the same time struggling with old loyalties.
He might have regained Bebbanburg, but he is still forced into a vicious war to preserve Northumbria.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZDate: Thursay 11 October Time: 20.00 - 21.00
Price: £15.00, £13.20 for students and jobseekers
Rock legend Kenney Jones played drums with some of the UK's most successful bands including The Small Faces, The Faces and The Who. Still playing regularly with his own band Kenney has been at the forefront of the British music scene for more than 50 years and has played (and drunk) with all the greats. He talks about his life from cockney lad, to Mod revolution, the swinging 60s to the wild excesses of the 70s and 80s hanging out with The Stones, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Rod Stewart.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, Guildford GU1 3AA
Date: Friday 12 October Time: 10.30 - 13.00 (two 1 hour talks)
Price: £18.00 (includes morning coffee)
Two painters with very different styles and ambitions helped change the look of 18th century British art. Linda Smith, Arts Society lecturer, guides us through their lives and works showing how Hogarth rose from humble copper-plate engraver to successful painter, and explains Reynolds' meteoric rise to become the first President of the Royal Academy.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Electric Theatre Café, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZDate: Friday 12 October Time: 12.30 - 13.30
Price: £10.00, £9.00 for students and jobseekers (includes Persian treats)
Food blogger and home cook Maryam Sinaiee introduces us to the flavours, history and culture of her native Iran. Born in Tehran, she learned to cook from her mother and is passionate about Persian history and its cuisine. She will guide us through a full year in the Persian kitchen with recipes including Lamb and Aubergine Stew, Baked Fish with Tamarind, and Rosewater Ice Cream with Pistachios. She will be bringing with her some treats to taste.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Electric TheatreDate: Friday 12 October Time: 14.00 - 16.00
Price: Full price £15.00, students and jobseekers £13.50
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The Arts Society Guildford
Venue: The Guildhall, High Street, Guildford GU1 3AA
Date: Friday 12 October Time: 14.30 - 17.00 (two 1 hour talks)
Price: £18.00 to include tea and cake
Mark Hill, Arts Society lecturer and BBC Antiques Roadshow expert, gives us an introduction into buying antiques. Mark will explain the dramatic change in the antiques market and how pieces that were made during the 1970's can fetch more money than those made in the 1770's.
There will be a short valuation identification session at the end. Please bring along interesting pieces of 20th century glass and ceramics.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZDate: Friday 12 October Time: 18.30 - 19.30
Price: £15.00, £13.50 for students and jobseekers
It's 50 years since Sir Robin Knox-Johnston sailed non-stop around the world, the first person ever to complete the feat single-handed. Tonight he talks about his life including that remarkable voyage, where he was the only sailor to finish the race, and a second solo circumnavigation of the globe in 2007, at the age of 68. He also reveals how he spied for the British Government.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: St Nicolas Community CentreDate: Friday 12 October Time: 19.00 - 20.00
Price: Full price £10.00, students and jobseekers £9.00
Marking the centenary of female suffrage, author Diane Atkinson charts the history of women's fight for the vote through the lives of those who took part. Led by Emmeline Pankhrust and her daughters, Christabel and Sylvia, and backed by women of all ages and class, the suffragettes and their actions would come to define protest movements for generations to come.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZ
Date: Friday 12 October Time: 20.00 - 21:00
Price: £15.00, £13.50 for students and jobseekers
Join David ‘Bumble' Lloyd and James Taylor, for an evening of lively chat and entertaining stories from the world of cricket.
Involved in the sport for more than 50 years as player, umpire, coach, and now Sky commentator, Bumble's latest book, Around the World in 80 Pints, takes us on a hilarious tour of his cricketing life as he searches for the perfect pint.
Taylor was one of the country's leading batsmen before being diagnosed with a serious heart condition that ended his playing career at the age of 26. Now a cricket pundit and an England selector, with a column in the Evening Standard, his story is told in Cut Short, his inspiring autobiography.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Waterstones Guildford, 71-73 High Street, Guildford GU1 3DY
Date: Saturday 13 October Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Price: Full price: £5.00; Children, Students and Job Seekers: £4.50
Recommended for aged 8+
Join Gabrielle Djanogly, author of the new children's book 'Sign Here: Twenty-Two Unofficially Official Pull-Out Forms' as she invites you to join her for a workshop.
Explore, draw, brainstorm and fill in forms about what you want to be when you grow up and what your best and most perfect dream would be.
Children must be accompanied by an adult.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, Guildford GU1 4SZ
Date: Saturday 13 October Time: 17.00 - 18.00
Price: £10.00, £9.00 for students and jobseekers
One of the UK’s best-loved authors talks to Fanny Blake about his new novel, Take Nothing with You, the heartwarming story of a young boy whose life is transformed by cello lessons. Drawing partly on his own boyhood it explores what happens when childish hero-worshipping meets the reality of messy adult love lives. Patrick Gale’s previous books include Rough Music, A Perfectly Good Man, Notes from An Exhibition, and A Place Called Winter.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Waterstones Guildford, 71-73 High Street, Guildford GU1 3DY
Date: Sunday 14 October Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Price: Full price: £5.00; Children, Students and Job Seekers: £4.50
Recommended Age 3-5
Join the World of Olobob Top - as seen on CBeebies - with Leigh Hodgkinson.
Olobob Top is a magical world that is made up of lots of shapes, colours and patterns.
This event will be a celebration of all things Olobob.
There will be games...
There will be prizes...
There will be creativity...
But most of all there will be fun!
Please note spaces are limited to book early to avoid disappointment.
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Guildford Book Festival
Venue: Coach House in the Courtyard, Hatchlands Park, East Clandon GU4 7RT
Date: Sunday 14 October 2018
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Tickets: Full Price £10.00, Jobseekers and Students £9.00
Thought to affect 1 in 20 households in the UK Japanese knotweed is the country's most aggressive, destructive and feared plant. Environmental scientist and leading knotweed expert Nicolas Seal discusses its origins, its history and the reasons for its success, plus its positive uses including medicinal benefits. Includes a guide to identification and a short knotweed clinic.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Harbour Hotel, GuildfordDate: Sunday 14 October Time: 13.30 - 14.30
Price: £7.00, £6.30 for students and jobseekers
When the jealous Easter Bunny launches an attack to ruin Christmas, it’s up to Amelia, her family and the elves to fight off the forces of evil. But can they keep Christmas alive?
Award-winning author Matt Haig will talk about his thrilling story, Father Christmas and Me, the third in a festive series, as well as his hilarious and heart-warming new book for younger readers, The Truth Pixie. Illustrations by Chris Mould.
Matt Haig is also the author of six adult novels including the 2017 bestseller, How to Stop Time.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Harbour Hotel, GuildfordDate: Sunday 14 October Time: 16.30 - 17.30
Price: £15.00, £13.50 for students and jobseekers
With rates of stress and anxiety rising, how can we stay sane on a planet that is making us mad? How do we feel human in an increasingly technological world? How do we stay happy in an over-anxious world? After experiencing years of anxiety and panic attacks number one bestselling author, Matt Haig, sought answers to these questions, and began looking at the link between what he felt and the world around him.
Matt Haig is also the author of six adult novels including the 2017 bestseller, How to Stop Time.
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Date: 16 October, 13 November, 22 January 2019, 26 February 2019, 23 April 2019, 4 June 219 Time: 10.00
Price: Adult + 1 child - £10.00 Additional adult: £5.00
£45.00 for 6 sessions
Live classical music in bite-sized chunks along with tea, coffee and muffins, for babies and toddlers and their parents, grandparents and carers.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Watts Gallery , Downs Lane, Compton, Guildford GU3 1DQ
Date: Wednesday 17 October Time: 19:00 - 20:00
Price: Full price: £12.50; Students and Job Seekers: £11.25
Miranda Seymour brings to life Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of Lord Byron, a woman ahead of her time. Raised by her mother she became the protégée of mathematician Charles Babbage, expanding many of his theories, and predicting the dawn of the computer era. She was also a compulsive gambler, who lived in Surrey for much of her married life. Her story is told in Seymour's latest book, In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter.
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Venue: Hatchlands Park, East Clandon GU4 7RT
Date: Thursday 18 October 2018
Time: 11am - 1pm
Cost: Adults: £12.50 (includes admission fee) National Trust Member: £5.00
Take a seasonal stroll through the park and garden with our senior gardener and enjoy the glorious autumn colours.
Please show your ticket at the door.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: The Mandolay Hotel, 36-40 London Road , Guildford GU1 2AEDate: Thursday 18 October Time: 19:00 - 20:00
Price: Full price £15.00, Students and Jobseekers £13.50
As he launches his memoir, Listening to the Animals, world-renowned veterinarian, and star of the Channel 4 series, The Supervet, joins us to talk about his life’s journey from family farm in Ireland to setting up his innovative practice in Surrey. What inspired him to become a vet? How does he cope with the pressures of his work? What lessons has he learnt from the animals in his care? It’s a story for anyone who rejoices in the special bond between humans and animals.
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The Occam Singers - Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem and Haydn: Nelson Mass
Venue: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, Guildford GU1 2RR
Date: Saturday 20 October 2018
Time: Concert starts at 19.30, free pre-concert talk at 18.30
Tickets: Full price £12.50 in advance or £15 at the door, under 16s and students £7.00
Two powerful works to commemorate the end of the Great War.
Please present your ticket or email confirmation at the door.
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Venue: Onslow Village Hall, The Square, Wilderness Road, Guildford, GU2 7QR
Date: Wednesday 14th November 2018 Time: Doors open for coffee and socialising at 7.15pm Lectures starts promptly at 8pm
Tickets: Full price: £10.00
Clive Barham Carter
Where have all the Kings gone?
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Venue: Onslow Village Hall, The Square, Wilderness Road, Guildford, GU2 7QR
Date: Wednesday 12th November 2018 Time: Doors open for coffee and socialising at 7.15pm. Lectures starts promptly at 8pm
Tickets: Full price: £10.00
Hear the story about Giotto; the legend and the reality of this superb artist.
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Venue: Onslow Village Hall, The Square, Wilderness Road, Guildford, GU2 7QR
Date: Wednesday 9th January 2019 Time: Doors open for coffee and socialising at 7.15pm. Lectures starts promptly at 8pm
Tickets: Full price: £10.00
Tony Rawlins - Find out how the advertising industry has exploited fine art.
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GUILDFORD BOOK FESTIVAL
Venue: Watts Gallery , Downs Lane, Compton, Guildford GU3 1DQ
Date: Saturday 26 January Time: 19:00 - 20:00
Price: Full price: £12.50; Students and Job Seekers: £11.25
To coincide with a new exhibition of Christina Rossetti's work at the Watts Gallery author Emma Mason presents an absorbing new study of the poet focussing on her spiritual life and her connection with the natural world.
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