by Gudrun Bowers | Jan 20, 2021 | Event
Thursday March 11th at 7.30m Elly will chat to fellow crime-writer William Shaw about her thrilling new novel ‘Night Hawks’ in a live online Zoom event.Elly Griffiths is a firm local favourite with readers here in Steyning, as she is based in Brighton,...
by Gudrun Bowers | Jan 7, 2021 | Book review
Poet Kathleen Jamie’s latest collection of luminous, clear-eyed essays is a profound meditation on humans’ place in history and within the natural world. From a 500 year old Inuit village being gradually revealed by warming summers in Alaska, to the shifting sand...
by Gudrun Bowers | Jan 7, 2021 | Book review
There have been some fabulous natural history books published this year, and this is one of my favourites. Dave Goulson, professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, takes us through the ways in which the average garden can support the myriad of creatures that...
by Gudrun Bowers | Jan 7, 2021 | Book review
This is a lovely exploration of the complicated natural history of the eel, and of those entangled in its slimy coils, from Aristotle and Freud, to the author and his father. After nearly two and a half thousand years of study, we now know the rough outline of the...
by Gudrun Bowers | Oct 23, 2020 | Event
Join award-winning author Maggie O’Farrell, and the incredibly talented illustrator Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini at 6pm on Thursday 5th November to celebrate the launch of their gorgeous new book, Where Snow Angels Go; an extraordinary and...
20th October, 2021, Steyning Cricket Club