Saturday 2nd December, 2-5pm

at the Bethesda Chapel, Park Street, Hawkesbury Upton GL9 1BA

Our next HULF Talk will be a celebration of Christmas stories and poems, with

• readings from favourite seasonal poetry and prose, such as an extract from Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales and Robert Frost’s On Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by the ever-popular readers Gerard Boyce and Michael Macmahon
• Robert Louis Stevenson‘s thoughts on Christmas, presented by historical novelist Ali Bacon
• an introduction to a Sicilian Christmas by romantic novelist Stefania Hartley
• an interview with cosy mystery author Kat Ailes, because everyone needs a cosy book to read at Christmas
• a festive short story performed by author Mark Rutterford
• armchair travel courtesy of wildlife documentary maker John Ruthven, author of The Whale in Your Living Room, and Himalayan travel guide Steve Berry, author of Straight Up
• readings from their books for children by local authors Tiggy Greenwood, Betty Salthouse, and Marie Whitehead
• top tips for dealing with self-care at Christmas by Alice Rosewell, author of A Little Book of Encouragement
• timely advice for dealing with post-Christmas debt from Michael Macmahon, author of Back to the Black
• seasonal thoughts from the Reverend Trevor Stubbs

The event will include a pop-up shop selling signed copies of the guest authors’ books, which make great Christmas presents for all the family!

As ever, the ticket price of £5 includes coffee, tea and cake, plus a £2 book voucher valid at the event.

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