Now we are 10! An evening of Fact and
Fiction: Carys Davies and Julie Summers,
11 May, Wootton Village Hall,
7.30pm
We would love you to come and celebrate the
bookshop’s 10th anniversary at Wootton Village Hall, where we have sold books
for so many of the Wootton Village Hall talks. The evening will comprise two
short talks – the first about a very special first novel, published on 3 May
(the date the bookshop opened its doors in 2008), and the second a welcome
return to Wootton by Julie Summers, this time to tell us about Blenheim during
the war.
Carys Davies has previously published two volumes of
outstanding short stories and won the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short
Story Award. She will be discussing West, her first novel. Recently she was interviewed on Radio 4's Open Book and you can hear that here.
Julie
Summers will talk about her latest book, Our Uninvited Guests - the secret
lives of Britain's country houses 1939-45, which includes a section on
Blenheim Palace.
This is a celebration of the shop's 10th
birthday and an opportunity for some of the shop’s many customers to get to know
each other. During the past ten years we have held many talks and six poetry
festivals. The bookshop has been shortlisted three times for independent
bookseller of the year and made it to the Independent’s Top 50 bookshops in the
country. None of this would have been possible without our customers and your
support and we would like to say a very big thank you to you all.
Entry (at £5) includes a glass of wine; and
wine and sandwiches will be served following the talks. Please book in advance
by ringing or emailing The Woodstock
Bookshop.
