Julia Blackburn talk on Threads: 24th June

We have rearranged Julia Blackburn's talk about Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske for Wednesday 24 June. It will start at 7pm and is being held upstairs in the splendid Assembly Room at Woodstock Town Hall.

Threads is a very special book - if you liked The Hare with Amber Eyes, The Music Room, H is for Hawk or Other People's Countries you may well love it. It's the sort of book, like those, that is beautifully written, quirky and slightly uncategorisable - and all the better for that. For some recent reviews see here, and here, and here and, finally, here




We are also celebrating the start of our eighth year so the talk will mark the continued existence of The Woodstock Bookshop - it is taking place during Independent Booksellers' Week, which seems appropriate. Do come and join us - entry is £5 and wine will be served...

The Town Hall itself is a particularly suitable venue for this talk as it has seventeen wall hangings recording the history of Woodstock from the tenth to the twentieth centuries, designed to fit the Assembly Room. They were made by the Woodstock Broderers. a community textile group. Each panel was created in the design, colours and needlework style of its own period - the one below shows the Town Hall itself, built in 1766. The three huge upstairs windows are in the Assembly Room.