Month: April 2025

For our latest Afternoon Author event and after a couple of false starts we were thrilled to finally welcome Sarah Easter Collins to The Bookery who was joined in conversation by our very own expert interviewer Alison Sweatman. On a lovely sunny afternoon, we were so happy to have several of our wonderful supporters join us for a really special afternoon. Dominic welcomed Sarah explaining that we have Sarah to thank for the launch of our Afternoon Authors following Sarah … Read more

The Bookery was delighted to welcome author and freelance writer Lucy Brazier for our most recent author event. We had hoped that Lucy was to be joined in conversation by her good friend, novelist, TV scriptwriter and journalist Veronica Henry but she (understandably) had to withdraw due to her son having an operation on his ankle that afternoon. We all, of course, wish him a speedy recovery. Stepping in at late notice to replace Veronica was our very own Bookshop … Read more

Five years on from the start of the pandemic, The Bookery marked this somewhat melancholy anniversary by welcoming author and environmental journalist Marianne Brown, who’s recently launched book The Shetland Way was conceived in the first months of lockdown. Marianne arrived in Voe, Shetland with her partner and daughter in February 2020 to attend her father’s funeral having packed only enough clothes to last a short trip, but as COVID19 swept through the UK they would be unable to leave … Read more