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St Paul’s Cathedral played host last night to the launch for Darkness Over Germany by Amy Buller, which we at Arcadia Books have republished this year following its original publication in 1943. During the interwar years, Amy Buller travelled frequently to Germany in order to confront and challenge the Nazi ideology head on by speaking both to men and women in thrall to Hitler’s vision and those who were fundamentally opposed but nonetheless continued to serve the nation. Buller recorded these stories in Darkness Over Germany and, following the publication of her book, was invited to Buckingham Palace to meet Queen Elizabeth and King George VI. The educational institute at Cumberland Lodge was established with their support as a place to foster critical thinking by acting as a safe space for ‘controversial’ discussions. 2017 is the 70th anniversary of Cumberland Lodge.
Such a distinguished venue was matched only by the speaker’s panel which included such luminaries as Dr Rowan Williams, Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss and Professor Maiken Umbach. The evening began with a compelling reading from Amy Buller’s book, courtesy of Tamsin Greig, whose words of warning and political vigilance surely resonate with our modern troubles. The panel discussion which followed illuminated many of Amy Buller’s concerns with people’s fascination with the ideology of fascism in Germany during the 1930s and drew parallels with the turbulence of our own current affairs.
Above all, the event and discussion succeeded in reminding us all about the importance of establishing safe dialogues that allow us to debate, argue and challenge ideologies that threaten the world we live in.
Darkness Over Germany by E. Amy Buller is now available to buy from all major retailers, including mybooksource.com
Interstate, the second book by Julian Sayarer to be published by Arcadia, has overcome competition including from travel writing legend Paul Theroux to win the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award.
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Read moreInterstate, the second book by Julian Sayarer to be published by Arcadia, has overcome competition including from travel writing legend Paul Theroux to win the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award.
Chair of Judges, travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler, said: “The decision was unanimous. Sayarer is a brilliantly thoughtful writer with no shortage of passion and anger. As befits the story of a road trip, the prose is the opposite of pedestrian: it is challenging and enigmatic – its power derives in part from what is left out. One can’t help thinking that the future of travel writing lies in this adventurous, post-modern genre.”
Interstate tells the story of Sayarer, finding a project in New York city cancelled, deciding to hitchhike to San Francisco. Revisiting this timeless American journey finds an unseen nation in rough shape. Along the road are homeless people and anarchists who have dropped out of society altogether, and blue-collar Americans who seem to have lost all meaning in forgotten towns and food deserts. Helped along by roadside communities and encounters that somehow keep a sense of optimism alive, Interstate: Hitchhiking Through the State of a Nation grapples with the fault lines in US society. It tells a tale of Steinbeck and Kerouac, set against the indifference of the vast US landscape and the frustrated energy of American culture and politics at the start of a new century.
Julian Sayarer is an author, journalist, and is often called an adventurer, although normally by other people. He has cycled six times across Europe, hitchhiked across the United States, and in 2009 broke the 18,000-mile world record for a circumnavigation by bicycle. A politics graduate, Julian's writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, New Statesman, Aeon Magazine, and many others, including a host of cycling publications. He writes slow travel, his writing from the roadside a 12mph view of the world in passing.
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Reading Europe celebrates The Netherlands on 23 May 2016
Today marks the Reading Europe Campaign's turn to the Netherlands - including a fantastic title from Arcadia Books.
Reading Europe celebrates The Netherlands on 23 May 2016
Today marks the Reading Europe Campaign's turn to the Netherlands - including a fantastic title from Arcadia Books.
There are 24 countries in the EU in addition to the 4 countries in the British Isles and Commonwealth. Before the EU Referendum let us take the opportunity to find out something more about fellow members and neighbours. The recommended titles have been selected to let the reader know the literature, history and culture of each country better.
On 23 May we celebrate The Netherlands.
RECOMMENDED TITLES FOR THE NETHERLANDS
Eline Vere by Louis Couperus, translated by Ina Rilke (Pushkin) 1SBN 978 1 906548 26 1, 528 pages, £12.99
Couperus has often been called the Dutch Oscar Wilde and he is certainly one of the most interesting Dutch authors of his period. Eline Vere and her sister Betsy are wealthy young socialites living in The Hague in the 19th century. Eline attempts to break free from the confines of her narrow existence through tumultuous and ultimately disastrous courtships. This classic novel minutely described the conventions, manners and hypocrisies of society with great richness of description and vivid characterisations.
The Twins by Tessa de Loo, translated by Ruth Levitt (Arcadia) ISBN 978 1 900850 56 8, 392 pages, £6.99
It tells a compelling story of Anna and Lotte twin sisters who following the death of their parents are separated at a very early age. Lotte is sent to stay with her relatives in the Netherlands to recuperate from tuberculosis and Anna stays with relatives in Germany. The story begins with a chance meeting at the health resort of Spa. Both sisters are now in their 70s and have lost contact with each other and in the intervening years the Second World War has taken place. Thus evolves a tale of human suffering, spanning many decades, from both the German and Dutch perspectives, including the hardships endured in the war.
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Arcadia Books were delighted to visit the Saint Jordi celebrations hosted by Borough Market and the Catalan Government this Sunday. Not only the patron saint of England, butchers and farmers, St George is also the patron of the Catalan...
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Arcadia Books were delighted to visit the Saint Jordi celebrations hosted by Borough Market and the Catalan Government this Sunday. Not only the patron saint of England, butchers and farmers, St George is also the patron of the Catalan region and, in Barcelona, Saint Jordi celebrations are a huge event and involve the giving of books and roses to friends, family and loved ones.
Our own celebrations were particularly tied to the publication of our own Catalan masterpiece: Jaume Cabre's 'Confessions', translated by Mara Faye Lethem, which can be seen here on the stand of the Institut Ramon Llull who helped us fund the translation and promotion of the book! The bookseller at the event was Newham Books.
So, it may be a bit late now, but why not keep the celebrations going and pick up a copy of Cabre's masterful novel in a bookshop near you or online?
Happy St George's Day!
www.amazon.co.uk/Confessions-Jaume-Cabre/dp/1909807575/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF...
Arcadia Books are pleased to congratulate Michael Arditti on the publication today of his ninth novel, Widows and Orphans. Recounting the story of Duncan, the editor of the Francome and Salter Mercury, a regional newspaper in a small sea-side town, this...
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Arcadia Books are pleased to congratulate Michael Arditti on the publication today of his ninth novel, Widows and Orphans. Recounting the story of Duncan, the editor of the Francome and Salter Mercury, a regional newspaper in a small sea-side town, this novel is a witty and warm portrait of the contemporary life.
Considering the press focus of the novel, it’s perhaps unsurprising that we have already had great reviews, and here are just a few:
‘It’s a better novel than most that do win prizes. It is funny and moving and deeply engaging.’
Alan Massie, The Scotsman
‘Brilliantly revealing… profoundly satisfying… very readable’
Helen Dunmore, Guardian
‘Arditti’s wit and typically breezy style keep the pages turning effortlessly’
Stephanie Cross, The Lady
‘Michael Arditti is the Graham Greene of our time’
Lucy Beresford, The Spectator
On Tuesday night, Daunts Marylebone played host to a launch party for Michael's book and Widows And Orphans is now available in all good bookshops and on Amazon priced at £14.99!
See Arcadia author, Bonnie Greer's article in the telegraph about the mansion tax, here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11207306/Griff-Rhys-Jone...
See Arcadia author, Bonnie Greer's article in the telegraph about the mansion tax, here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11207306/Griff-Rhys-Jone...
Monday 17th November
at 6pm
Adam House, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Edward Wilson, author of The Envoy, A River in May, The Midnight Swimmer and The Whitehall Mandarin will be appearing at Scotland's Previously History Festival.
Historical novelists Andrew Williams, ...
Read moreMonday 17th November
at 6pm
Adam House, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Edward Wilson, author of The Envoy, A River in May, The Midnight Swimmer and The Whitehall Mandarin will be appearing at Scotland's Previously History Festival.
Historical novelists Andrew Williams, William Ryan and Edward Wilson discuss the shadow world of spies and secret policemen, from World War 1 to Vietnam.
Buy tickets at www.historyfest.co.uk
TUESDAY 28TH OCTOBER
Novel histories: Lisa Appignanesi and Sarah Dunant in conversation
Sarah Dunant, Lisa Appignanesi
WATERSTONE'S HAMPSTEAD
7:00PM
Tickets: £3/5, available from the shop
... Read moreTUESDAY 28TH OCTOBER
Novel histories: Lisa Appignanesi and Sarah Dunant in conversation
Sarah Dunant, Lisa Appignanesi
WATERSTONE'S HAMPSTEAD
7:00PM
Tickets: £3/5, available from the shop
Lisa Appignanesi’s latest novel 'Sacred Ends' is a complex and chilling thriller set in fin-de-siècle France, while Sarah Dunant’s 'Blood and Beauty' takes us to Renaissance Italy with its compelling narrative of politics, passion and power. Join us to celebrate the launch of 'Sacred Ends' and hear these acclaimed Hampstead authors discuss the art of historical fiction. Wine and other refreshments provided.
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SUNDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2014.
Time
1.30pm
Location
Artlink
87 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QP
Tickets
£4 / £3
Available from: www.humbermouth.co.uk or 01482 300 300
IN 1989,...
Read moreSUNDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2014.
Time
1.30pm
Location
Artlink
87 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QP
Tickets
£4 / £3
Available from: www.humbermouth.co.uk or 01482 300 300
IN 1989, eighteen-year-old John Finch spends his Saturdays following Nottingham Forest up and down the country and the rest of the week trudging the streets of his hometown as a postal worker. His blossoming relationship with girlfriend Jen is his only other respite. In 2004 he is teaching in a southern secondary school while delaying the inevitable onslaught of parenthood. Leading inexorably towards the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough, and the worst sporting disaster in British history, this book glides between 1989 and 2004, when the true impact of this tragic day becomes evident. Fan is a book about personal and collective tragedy. It’s about growing up and not growing up, about manhood and about what makes a man, and about football’s role in reflecting a society never more than a brick’s throw away from shattering point.
DANNY RHODES His short stories have appeared in magazines on both sides of the Atlantic and his debut novel, Asboville was published in October 2006. Well received by critics, it was selected as a Waterstone’s Paperback of the Year and it has been adapted for BBC Films by the dramatist Nick Leather. Rhodes’ second novel Soldier Boy was published in February 2009. Fan is Danny’s third novel. Danny Rhodes was at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989.
A percentage of profits from book sales will go to the Anfield Sports & Community Centre (ASCC), on behalf and in memory of the Hillsborough 96.
THURSDAY 13TH NOVEMBER
Time
7.30pm / Start 8.15pm
Location
Pave
16 - 20 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QA
BONNIE GREER.
Tickets
£8 / £5
Available: www.humbermouth.co.uk or 01482 300 300
Bonnie Greer...
Read moreTHURSDAY 13TH NOVEMBER
Time
7.30pm / Start 8.15pm
Location
Pave
16 - 20 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QA
BONNIE GREER.
Tickets
£8 / £5
Available: www.humbermouth.co.uk or 01482 300 300
Bonnie Greer OBE, is an American-British playwright, novelist and critic. She grew up on the South Side of Chicago, the eldest of seven children born to Ben, a Mississippi sharecropper, Chicago factory worker, and D-Day veteran, and Willie Mae, who went to work at fifteen to support her family. Although she began writing plays at the age of nine, Bonnie initially set out on a legal career, the career of choice for a black girl coming of age in the Civil Rights movement. She decided to return to writing instead of pursuing the law and went on to study playwriting in Chicago under David Mamet and at the Actors Studio in New York with Elia Kazan. Bonnie has been a regular contributor to BBC2’s ‘Newsnight Review’ and ‘Question Time’.
From her early years in segregated, racist America to her first steps towards British soil, Bonnie’s story is not only compelling and eye-opening, but an exquisite testament to one woman’s strength, determination and pride.
Bonnie will be in conversation with Russ Litten and also reading from her memoir Parallel Life.
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