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Upcoming Parthian Events
 
 

We apologise that due to unforseen circumstances the event Writers of the Black and Green featuring Professor Dai Smith at the Big Pit Museum, Blaenafon on 8 May has been postponed until Autumn 2008

Friday 4th April, 6pm

Almanac, Katie Gramich

Gregynog Hall, Newtown.

Sunday 6th April, 10am

Rachel Trezise will be launching Swansea's National Year of Reading.

Central Library, Swansea.

Saturday 12th April, 1.00pm

Gee Williams will be available to chat and sign copies of her books at Borders Bookstore, Cardiff

Wednesday 23rd April, 6pm

Gee Williams will be signing copies of her book Blood etc

Blood etc is a collection of short stories set mainly in a north east corner of Wales, with other locations such as parts of England and America.

Its main themes include issues of power and balance, class conflict, fatherhood, and of nature and human attempts to control it. The stories are gentle, but also sophisticated and perceptive.

Linghams, Heswall.

Thursday 24th April, 5.30pm

Almanac, Katie Gramich

Blackwells, Cardiff University.

 

Thursday 1st May, 6pm

Dai Smith, Warrior's Tale

Open University in Wales, Cardiff.

Friday 2nd May

Just Another Mzungu Passing Through Borders

Jim Bowen will be touring Borders throughout the day:

12 noon - book launch, Borders, Cardiff

2.30pm - signing, Borders, Llantrisant

5pm - signing, Borders, Swansea

Saturday 3rd May, 7.30pm

Mzungu at the Mwldan

Local writer and farmer Jim Bowen will be in conversation with Elin Jones AM discussing the experiences in Kenya that have coloured his first novel Just Another Mzungu Passing Through. Jim Bowen was a VSO participant in Kenya during the late nineties where he coached cricket in Nairobi. In his new book Jim tries to come to terms with his perception of Africa and the reality that confronted him. It's an engrossing story and a social commentary that foreshadows the current situation in Kenya.

'I wish I could remember it the way I first saw it - through the fresh and innocent eyes I had then and not the cynical ones that I have now...' Jim Bowen

Elin Jones AM is the Rural Affairs Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government and Assembly Member for Ceredigion. She has a family background in farming and a professional interest in rural development both in Wales and abroad.

Theatre Mwldan, Aberteifi. Reserve Seats.

Book Launch and Performance
Friday 9 May
8 pm
The Tythe Barn Theatre
St Donats Arts Centre

Tickets £6 including a glass of wine

Katy Cawkwell has developed a reputation for dramatic and powerful reworkings of epic material. Here she retells a classic tale from the great Welsh mythological cycle, the Mabinogion.

Rhiannon follows a woman’s journey from her world into our own, from eternal youth to mortal suffering, from passionate first love to the strength of love rediscovered, from vision to understanding.

The performance will be followed by a book signing in the Glass Room and the chance to meet the author over a glass of wine.

For further details and to buy tickets please click here

 

 

Saturday 10th May, 2pm

Dai Smith will be in conversation with Eric Hobsbawm.

Birkbeck College, London.

Thursday 15th May, 7.30pm

ReWind

Archbishop's Childs Hall, Trinity College, Carmarthen

Friday 16th May, 7pm

Out with it, Aled Islwyn

Swansea University

Monday 26th May, 2pm

Dai Smith will be featuring in 'The Raymond Williams Lecture'

Hay Literary Festival

Tuesday 27th May, 6.30pm

Otherland, David Lloyd and Margaret Lloyd

University of Wales, Bangor

Wednesday 28th May, 6.30pm

Otherland, David Lloyd, Margaret Lloyd, Jon Dressel, Joseph Clancy.

Arts Centre Bookshop, Aberystwyth

 

Friday 30th May, 10am

ReWind

Hay Literary Festival

 

Wednesday 4th June, 7pm

Otherland, David Lloyd and Jon Dressel

University of Wales, Swansea

Thursday 5th June

Otherland, David Lloyd. Jon Dressel and Lloyd Robson

Millennium Centre, Cardiff.

Monday 9th June, 7pm

This year's Trinity Arts Festival has a large literary programme, including a number of events from Parthian.

Otherland book launch with poets Jon Dressel and David Lloyd

Archbishop Childs Hall, Trinity College, Carmarthen

Tuesday 10th June, 7pm

Ffrinj Festival.

Black Beach: Catalan Drama. Script in Hand Readings.

The Boathouse, Laugharne.

Tuesday 10 June 7.30pm

A Warrior's Tale

Professor Dai Smith in coversation with Professor M. Wynn Thomas on the life and work of Raymond Williams at the Dylan Thomas centre, Swansea

Wednesday 11th June, 7pm

Ffrinj presents
Rewind
An anthology by students of the MA Creative Writing

The Boathouse, Laugharne

Friday 13th June, 7.30pm

This year's Trinity Arts Festival has a large literary programme, including a number of events from Parthian.

Two Continents meet Wales. Tishani Doshi and Jim Bowen

Archbishop Childs Hall, Trinity College, Carmarthen

Monday 16th June, 7.30pm

'Crossing Literary Borders'. As part of the Trinity Arts Festival.

Gee Williams, Caryl Lewis and Gwen Davies

Archishop Childs Hall, Trinity College, Carmarthen

 

Wednesday 18 June 7.30pm

Launch of Oh Dad! A search for Robert Mitchum

Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea

Reading, conversation and wine with Lloyd Robson

 

Monday 23rd June, 7.30pm

Rachel Trezise, Jeni Williams and Owen Sheers will be giving readings as part of the Trinity Arts Festival

Archbishop Childs Hall, Trinity College, Carmarthen

Thursday 26th June, 2pm

Blood etc, Gee Williams.

Abingdon Library, Oxfordshire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For further details of any of the above events contact Dominic on 01267 676633

or Dom@parthianbooks.co.uk

   
   
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