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SUMMARY:2027 Marsden Calendar Now On Sale
DESCRIPTION:Raising money for registered charity Friends of Marsden Library\, the rather fabulous Marsden Calendar is now available in Marsden and Slawit.  You can buy online from the Mechanics to collect\, or to post within the UK +£2 p&p.  International postage can also be arranged!. \nThank you to everyone who supports us by entering the calendar competition\, buying the calendar\, and especially to our local businesses who sell it on our behalf: \nMarsden Library \nMarsden Post Office \nMarsden The Paper Shop \nEnjoy Art \nMaria Michaels (formerly On the Fringe) \nNew Leaf\, Marsden \nNorth of England Centre for Music and Arts\, Tunnel End \nSlawit Post Office \nWatersedge Cafe\, Tunnel End \nMarsden Mechanics (Online sales only – £2.00 for UK post and packing) (link to follow)
URL:https://friendsofmarsdenlibrary.org.uk/event/2027-marsden-calendar-now-on-sale/
LOCATION:West Yorkshire
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SUMMARY:Author Event: An Evening with Sally O'Reilly
DESCRIPTION:Join us with author Sally O’Reilly: \nHagtale \nA Macbeth Origin Story \nSally O’Reilly \nShortlisted for the World of Books’ Sustainable Story Award 2026. \nA hagtale\, a dark fable\, a story told around winter’s fires and known to Shakespeare but never written down. Until now. \nIn the eleventh century\, a feral child is taken in by three witches after the wolves who cared for her are slaughtered by hunters. Raised in the forests amongst nature and magic\, she is soon sent to live in a Scottish castle\, where she falls under the spell of the cruel\, ambitious Lord Macbeth. \nThree hundred years later\, gentle\, observant Brother Rowan makes his way through the land on a strange and perilous quest. Travelling North to a remote and ancient monastery\, Rowan is sent in search of an ancient library and the true history of Scotland’s Kings. \nMisfits in their own time\, Wulva and Rowan are deeply connected despite the centuries that separate them. Each searching for answers\, each in danger from discovering the truth. \nWeaving together across the centuries\, the stories of Rowan and of the child grown into a woman\, lady\, and queen will meet in thunder\, lightning\, and rain\, at Cawdor Castle – at the throne of Macbeth. \nHagtale is a spine-tingling novel which breathes new life into Shakespeare’s tragedy and the concept of literary retellings. Interrogating the play’s magic and masculinity through a new focus on how stories are preserved and lost over time\, this is historical literary fiction at its finest. \nSally O’Reilly grew up in Stoke-on-Trent and now lives in Sheffield. En route\, she’s spent time in Brixton\, Brighton and Barcelona. Her short stories have been published in the UK\, Australia\, and South Africa\, and she has been shortlisted for the Cosmopolitan short story prize and the Ian St. James Awards. Her historical novel Dark Aemilia (Myriad Editions/Picardor US) was nominated for the Kirkus Prize. She has worked as a senior creative writing lecturer at the Open University\, and her journalism has been published in The Guardian\, The Sunday Times\, and New Scientist.
URL:https://friendsofmarsdenlibrary.org.uk/event/author-event-an-evening-with-sally-oreilly/
LOCATION:Marsden Library\, Marsden Mechanics Hall\, Peel Street\, Marsden\, West Yorkshire\, HD7 6BW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Reid
DESCRIPTION:A Sunday afternoon in the Mechanics\, with balladeer Jennifer Reid. \nProvisional timings 1pm – 3pm \nDetails to follow. \nOn Sale Soon – £5
URL:https://friendsofmarsdenlibrary.org.uk/event/jenn-reid/
LOCATION:Marsden Mechanics\, HD7 6BW
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SUMMARY:Author Event: An Evening with Adelle Stripe
DESCRIPTION:A bedroom dreamer with a headful of Warhol\, Adelle Stripe’s formative years were ones of daytime drinking and religious fervour\, frustrated mothers and reckless daughters\, desire\, ambition and the pursuit of creativity. Told through a prism of vintage perfumes and played out in vivid detail with startling clarity and colour\, her memoir Base Notes chronicles an unbridled Northern England of the late 20th century already fading from view. \nWith a keen eye for the absurd\, an ear cocked to eavesdropped conversations and a nose that finds perfume wherever it goes\, this tragicomic tale of working-class womanhood is no clichéd story of redemption or escape\, but instead a bleakly funny\, unflinching account of dead-end jobs\, lost weekends\, brief encounters and those wild\, forgotten characters who slip through the cracks. \nInfused with acerbic observations and unexpected poignancy\, Base Notes sees Adelle Stripe boldly laying her lived experience on the page\, creating literature from a life less ordinary. \n‘A small\, bleak masterpiece’ — Observer  \n‘Wistful\, sad and funny’ — Spectator \n‘Ingenious’ — ★★★★★ Telegraph Books of the Year \n‘Poignant and grimly hilarious’ — DAZED \n‘Candid and compelling’ — Guardian  \nOn Sale Soon – £3
URL:https://friendsofmarsdenlibrary.org.uk/event/author-event-an-evening-with-adelle-stripe/
LOCATION:Marsden Library\, Marsden Mechanics Hall\, Peel Street\, Marsden\, West Yorkshire\, HD7 6BW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Author Event: An Evening with Carolyn O'Brien
DESCRIPTION:Rose and Renzo – A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Pick of the Month\nManchester 1936 – Fascism looms in Europe\, and Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts are on the rise.\nAfter the death of their father\, two sisters arrive in Manchester’s vibrant ‘Little Italy’: creative misfit\, Rose and her much older sister\, Ivy. Fearful of Rose’s impulsiveness\, Ivy seeks to control Rose\, forcing her to give up her cherished place at art school. \nDesperate to pursue her passion\, Rose meets Renzo\, a painter arrived from Europe. Their connection is instant and powerful. Yet as their feelings deepen\, Renzo’s past in Mussolini’s Italy remains a mystery. \nAs Blackshirts march across the city\, Rose is drawn to the fight against fascism\, even as she’s compelled to face the devastating question – just which side is Renzo on? \nCarolyn O’Brien is an historical fiction writer from Manchester. Her writing has a strong sense of the north-west of England and its radical past\, as illustrated by her first novel The Song of Peterloo published by Legend Press in 2019 to coincide with the Peterloo Massacre bicentenary. \nTickets on Sale Soon – £3
URL:https://friendsofmarsdenlibrary.org.uk/event/author-event-an-evening-with-carolyn-obrien/
LOCATION:Marsden Library\, Marsden Mechanics Hall\, Peel Street\, Marsden\, West Yorkshire\, HD7 6BW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Author Event: An Evening with Alison Twells
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly timed for International Women’s Day 2027 \nA Place of Dreams: Desire\, Deception and a Wartime Coming of Age – Alison Twells \n  \nNorah Hodgkinson (1925-2009) was a working-class schoolgirl\, later clerical worker\, and a prolific diarist. In 1940\, at the age of 14\, she knitted a pair of socks for the Royal Navy Comforts Fund. The sailor who received them wrote to thank her\, drawing Norah into a mysterious ‘love triangle’ and an experience that we would now call sexual grooming.  \n  \nWhen Norah died in 2009\, Alison Twells – her great niece and a professional historian – received a suitcase archive containing Norah’s 71 pocket diaries\, a collection of photographs and the sailor’s letters. In A Place of Dreams\, Alison explores the coming-of-age of an ordinary girl in wartime and uncovers a dark tale of male rivalry\, wartime anonymity and a young woman’s appetite for life and love amidst unexpected dangers. \nTickets on Sale Soon – £3
URL:https://friendsofmarsdenlibrary.org.uk/event/author-event-an-evening-with-alison-twells/
LOCATION:Marsden Library\, Marsden Mechanics Hall\, Peel Street\, Marsden\, West Yorkshire\, HD7 6BW\, United Kingdom
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