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Wednesday, 22nd of May
Daunt Books Cheapside
An Evening of Nature Writing
Wednesday, 29th of May
Daunt Books Fulham Road
Huw Lewis-Jones
The Conquest of Everest
Thursday, 30th of May
Daunt Books Marylebone High Street
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Every month Daunt Books holds a range of interesting author events featuring the likes of William Boyd, Alexander McCall Smith and Jan Morris. Please get in touch if you would like to reserve a signed copy from any of these events.
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Mark Blyth on Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Wednesday, 22nd of May at 6:30pm in Daunt Books Cheapside
Since the banking crisis in 2008 and the resultant global recession, governments in both North America and Europe have looked to austerity measures - budget cuts, reduced spending, the capping of wages and prices - as a means of quelling the financial mayhem and restoring order. But as Mark Blyth argues in Austerity, such measures don't work - they merely shrink the economy and exacerbate income inequality. Drawing on numerous examples from the last 100 years, Blyth demonstrates how earlier attempts at austerity have been ruinous, and argues for the abandonment of such a wrongheaded and damaging policy.
Tickets are £5. They may be purchased from our Cheapside shop in person, or with credit/debit card by telephone (020 7248 1117) or here online.
This event is co-sponsored by Absolute Strategy Research
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An Evening of Nature Writing With Olivia Laing & Charles Rangeley-Wilson
Wednesday, 29th of May at 7pm in Daunt Books Fulham Road
Daunt Books in Chelsea welcomes the author of To The River, the Evening Standard, Financial Times and Independent book of the year. Laing journeys along the river Ouse, in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941, from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in landscape and how ghosts never leave the places they love. On another river, in a different corner of the country, Charles Rangeley-Wilson's newly published Silt Road is the story of an obsession as he quests to find a hidden river and uncovers our vanished wilderness and the history of an English landscape lost from view.
Tickets are £5 and may be purchased from our Fulham Road shop in person, or with credit/debit card by telephone (0207 373 4997)
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Huw Lewis-Jones
Thursday, 30th of May at 7pm in Daunt Books Marylebone High Street
on The Conquest of Everest: Original Photographs from the Legendary First Ascent
Sixty years after the first ascent by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, this anniversary book celebrates the most majestic of mountains, with exclusive access to the outstanding imagery and private archives of George Lowe, a key climber and photographer on that expedition.
Huw Lewis-Jones, who has edited this stunning book, is an author and historian of exploration, and his talk will be accompanied by a slideshow of Lowe's extraordinary photographs.Tickets are £8. They may be purchased from our Marylebone shop in person, or with credit/debit card by telephone (020 7224 2295) or here online.
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The Toast Festival
Saturday and Sunday, 1st and 2nd of June from 9am to 6pm at the Red Gallery, Shoreditch
Daunt Books are providing a pop-up bookshop at TOAST, a food festival in Shoreditch, on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd June. The shop will be open 9 till 6 each day, selling books by various speakers, including Nicholas Lander's beautiful 'The Art of the Restaurateur' and Fuchsia Dunlop's insightful 'Shark's Fin Sichuan Pepper'.
TOAST is a weekend-long celebration of food and ideas, bringing together chefs, restaurateurs, writers, entrepreneurs and producers to discuss and debate the big ideas behind what Londoners eat and drink. Speakers include Jancis Robinson (wine writer, Financial Times), Josceline Dimbleby (author, journalist), Signe Johansen (Scandilicious) and Henry Dimbleby (co-founder, LEON).Tickets may be purchased from the Toast Festival website here online.
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Brendan Simms Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy
Tuesday, 4th of June at 6:30pm in Daunt Books Cheapside
Europe has traditionally existed as a ragged assemblage of republics and kingdoms with ever-shifting alliances and interests. This precarious framework, with its rivalries and enmities, has through the ages spurred countries on to both astonishing productivity and terrible savagery - and has proved resistant to unification by both military and financial means. As a still young EU convulses with internal dissent, Brendan Simms examines what makes Europe so dynamic and factious, and weighs its chances for future prosperity.
Tickets are £5. They may be purchased from our Cheapside shop in person, or with credit/debit card by telephone (020 7248 1117) or here online.
This event is co-sponsored by Absolute Strategy Research
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Richard Holmes
Wednesday 5th June at 7pm in Daunt Books Marylebone High Street
Richard Holmes follows his superb work, The Age of Wonder, with Falling Upwards. In this heart-lifting book, he floats us across the world following the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, from the first heroic experiments of the Montgolfiers in 1780s to the tragic attempt to fly a balloon to the North Pole in the 1890s. It is a compelling adventure story of the kind that only Holmes could tell.
"[A] captivating and surely definitive history of the madness of pre-Wright brothers ballooning"The TimesTickets are £8. They may be purchased from our Marylebone shop in person, or with credit/debit card by telephone (020 7224 2295) or here online.
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Felix Martin and Ha-Joon Chang authors of Money: The Unauthorised Biography and 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Tuesday, June 11th at 6:30pm in Daunt Books CheapsideTickets are £5. They may be purchased from our Cheapside shop in person, or with credit/debit card by telephone (020 7248 1117) or here online.
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Jane Gardam
Tuesday 11th June at 7pm at Keats House
What a lot Jane Gardam knows about love and its accommodations ... how elegantly and intelligently and kindly she writes about the instinctive, tendril-like gropings of one human heart towards another. - Jane Shilling, Telegraph
In Last Friends, Jane Gardam completes her beautifully crafted trilogy which began with Old Filth, which The Times called 'beautiful, vivid and defiantly funny'. She continued with her 'delicious and poignant' (Spectator) portrayal of the other side of Filth's marriage in The Man in the Wooden Hat. Now Gardam turns her perceptive eye and fluid prose to Terry Veneering - Filth's greatest rival in work and in love.
Jane Gardam OBE, born in 1928, is an award-winning writer whose other wonderful books include The Queen of the Tambourine, Faith Fox and A Long Way from Verona. She was awarded the OBE in the 2009 New Year's Honours for services to literature.Talks take place at Keats House, Keats Grove, NW3
Tickets are £5 (including wine). Ticket holders are invited to take the opportunity to look around Keats House from 6.30pm until the talk begins at 7pm. They may be purchased from our South End Road shop in person, or with credit/debit card by telephone (0207 794 8206).