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We will have Pop-Up Bookshop at The Marches of Time Festival Saturday 14th Sunday 15th September
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Here is a taster of the authors’ visiting the Marches of Time Festival whose books are very popular with customers at Burway Books:
Author Hugh Johnson – Stokesay Court, The Marches of Time Festival Sunday 14th September
Hugh Johnson is the world’s pre-eminent writer on wine. First published in 1977, his Pocket Wine Book remains the world’s bestselling annual wine guide. Its winning formula of insight, critical appraisal of the world of wine, plus valuable vintage news and wine recommendations has been often imitated but never bettered.
With the publication of his first book, Wine, Johnson established himself at the age of twenty-seven as the most refreshing and authoritative voice on the subject. During the past four decades he has written books that have become landmarks on the subject, including his classic The World Atlas of Wine, co-authored with Jancis Robinson, his Wine Companion, first published in 2003, The Story of Wine and Hugh Johnson on Wine.
Author Sally Coulthard Her latest book published this summer is The Apple
– Pitchford Hall, The Marches of Time Festival Sunday 15th September
Sin, cider and apple crumble? the 10,000-year story of the world’s most tempting fruit. The Apple: A Delicious History takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, from the apple’s prehistoric beginnings in the Tian Shan mountains of Kazakhstan to the explosion of commercial apple-growing in twenty-first-century China. Zigzagging across the centuries and straddling the globe, Sally Coulthard explores how the apple travelled along the Silk Road from Central Asia to Europe, appearing as an erotically charged symbol in Greek myth and poetry and even featuring in the shopping list of a senior Roman officer stationed on Hadrian’s Wall. She samples the cider that flowed from the emperor. Charlemagne’s orchards in the early Middle Ages, and relishes the crispness of the yellow sweeting, the first new apple variety to be cultivated in seventeenth-century America. And she discovers why, despite the existence of more than 7500 varieties of apple – from the ubiquitous Granny Smith to the purple-skinned Black Diamond of Tibet – only a handful of cultivars are available in modern supermarkets.
Amplified by mouth-wateringly appley recipes and the stories behind them, The Apple: A Delicious History embraces not only culinary, horticultural, social and commercial history but also age-old traditions in mythology, folklore and religion. It is the perfect gift book for gardeners and nature lovers – and for anyone who enjoys a drop of cider or a slice of apple pie.
Local Author Catherine Beale author of Born Out of Wenlock and Champagne & Shambles the Arkwright’s & Country House in Crisis
– Pitchford Hall, The Marches of Time Festival Sunday 15th September
In January 1870, Johnny Arkwright was the largest landowner in Herefordshire. From the processions and balls which celebrated his coming of age, to facing financial ruin at his own son’s birthday and the eventual sale of the estate, this book shows, through the example of a prominent family, the downfall of the landed classes.