Apart from the bookshop, we organise and help with a number of ‘extra-curricular’ activities.
SUPPER BOOK CLUB - Wednesday 23rd November at Frinton Golf Club. 7pm for 7.30pm. This month we are delighted to welcome back the author Natasha Solomons who will be telling us more about her latest book The Novel in the Viola. Tickets are £25 for a 2 course supper with coffee.
Saturday 25th June – National Reading Group Day
Get your reading group involved in this new national initiative and join us to discuss the books with the authors. Louise Levene author of A Vision of Loveliness and Elizabeth Day author of Scissors, Paper, Stone will be joining us at McGrigor Hall from 6-9pm. Nibbles will be provided, with wine and soft drinks for sale.
Tickets are £10 which includes one of the books and 10% off the other title.
Thursday 19th May at The Cookery Workshop, 7-9pm
Wine & Canapés with author Ruth Dugdall
The award-winning Felixstowe based author will be talking about her psychological thriller The Woman Before Me, which is based in and around Ipswich. Bryan and Jo Beattie of Coastalfoods will be providing delicious canapés and we will be offering a glass (or two) of wine, orange juice or mineral water.
Tickets are £10 with 10% off the book.
Independent Booksellers’ Week – 18th to 25th June
Watch this space for a fun-packed week of book shop events and activities.
WORLD BOOK NIGHT – 5TH MARCH 2011
We were lucky enough to be selected to be a ‘giver’ and had 48 copies of Love in the Time of Cholera to give away to the first 48 people to book to see the film on 2nd April – launching Cinema-on-Sea – our new cinema venture.
NATASHA SOLOMON
Author supper – Thursday 4th November
Frinton Golf Club – 7.30pm
Natasha Solomons, author of ‘Mr Rosenblum’s List’, will be joining us for supper to discuss her enormously successful debut novel.
Described by fellow author, Paul Torday as ‘utterly charming and very funny’, the book tells the tale of a German jewish immigrant determined to become ‘a very English gentleman’ during the 1940s and 1950s.
‘…Natasha Solomons folds together Jewish baking, golf and Dorset folklore to create a singular comic confection.’ (Daily Telegraph)
Tickets are £16 which includes a 2 course meal with coffee, together with a 10% discount on the book.
BARBARA ERSKINE
Renowned local author and patron of the Festival will be reading from her latest novel, ‘Times Legacy’; a beautiful and haunting tale of dark forces and mystical powers.
Barbara will read extracts from the book and talk about her extensive research into Roman history, druids and witchcraft – threads which are carefully woven together in this gripping tale.
There will also be a chance to mingle and talk informally and Barbara Wine and Canapés with Barbara Erskine
Thursday 14th October
The Cookery Workshop – 6-8pm
Frinton Literary will be happy to sign copies of the book which will be on sale for £13.99 (RRP £18.99)
Tickets £10 from Sally or Judith at Caxton Books
INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS’ WEEK Monday 14th June – Tuesday 22nd June 2010
Wally visits Frinton and Caxton Books!
Meet Wally
Wally will be in the shop on Tuesday 22nd at 4pm to award prizes to those children who found the most Wally hiding places!
Bedtime Story Wednesday 16th June. – We had a lovely story time in the gallery. See the photos below and have decided to hold one here at 5.00p.m. on the last Wednesday of each month. Do come and join us.
Do Dad’s Doodle? – Saturday 19th June at 11am.
It’s Fathers’ Day on Sunday 20th, so why not doodle a present for Dad.
Lots of prizes and activities to enjoy!
EVENTS FOR ADULTS
Martin Newell – Tuesday 15th at 5.30pm in the shop
Renowned local writer & broadcaster will be entertaining us in the shop with extracts from his poetry and prose. Tickets – £3 including a glass of wine.
SAS Operation Galia by Robert Hann – Friday 18th 6pm in the shop
Robert will be with us in the shop to talk about this extraordinary ‘faction’ account of SAS Operation Galia. Tickets – £3 including a glass of wine.
EVENING WITH GEORGINA HARDING
Georgine Harding joined us at Piatto’s restaurant on Thursday 13th May for an very enjoyable evening. She talked about her latest book The Spy Game. See the photo’s below:
ANYA ASHE joined us last Saturday 1st May at 11.00 a.m. to sign copies of her first novel A Ticket to Malta. It was a successful signing and many of the people who came had connections to Malta and enjoyed meeting her and talking about the book and sharing their experiences
Martin Bell at the Golf Club 16th April 2010
Frinton Golf Club entertained a near capacity crowd for Martin Bell the evening of Friday 16th April. Martin Bell was talking about his new book - ‘A Very British Revolution’ - in which he analyses the expenses scandal and explains his proposals on how to ‘clean up’ Westminster.
He also talked openly about his views on the forthcoming election and made some interesting comments and insights regarding the first ever pre-election television debate, which had taken place the previous night.
