Book Signing with PHIL RICKMAN : “The Bones of Avalon”

Friday April 2nd 2010, between 2.30 – 4.30pm here at Burway Books

Popular author Phil Rickman will be at Burway Books to sign copies of his new novel, “The Bones of Avalon”. In a break from his popular Merrily Watkins series, Phil has penned a historical crime novel, set in 1560 and following Dr John Dee, astrologer to Queen Elizabeth and one of the most fascinating historical figures of the Elizabethan period. He is given an assignment by the Queen's chief minister, Sir William Cecil, to ride to the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey and bring back King Arthur's bones. The mission takes the mild, bookish Dee to the tangled roots of English magic and the Arthurian legacy so important to the Tudors. Into unexpected violence, spiritual darkness, the breathless stirring of first love...and the cold heart of a complex plot against Elizabeth.
www.philrickman.co.uk

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An Evening with PATRICK GALE ~ “Gentleman’s Relish”

Tuesday May 4th , 7.00pm at Cardington Village Hall

*£5 per ticket from Burway Books (to include tea and biscuits)
Burway Books is delighted to announce that bestselling author Patrick Gale will be visiting us to read from and talk about his latest book, “Gentleman’s Relish”, a collection of short stories. Patrick is probably best known for his enormously successful “Notes From an Exhibition”, though he has written several other novels as well (www.galewarning.org ). Copies of these novels can be ordered from Burway Books: Patrick will be happy to sign them for you if you wish.

*Book early to avoid disappointment!

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Lecture and Book Launch with STEVIE DAVIES : “Into Suez”
Monday May 10th, 7.30pm at the Longmynd Hotel
£5 per ticket from Burway Books (to include tea and biscuits)
Welsh born Stevie Davies is a Booker long-listed novelist, literary critic, biographer and historian who also writes for the Guardian and Independent newspapers. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the Academi Gymreig and is Director of Creative Writing at Swansea University.

“Into Suez” is her eleventh novel, set in the run up to the Suez Crisis. Through the story of Joe, an ordinary working man on the front line, Stevie explores how imperialist attitudes to the Middle East have failed to change since 1950. She has also written thirteen books of literary criticism and history.

www.steviedavies.com