AUTHOR EVENT: STUART KELLY

Blog · Posted January 12, 2018

Regulars at our events will be familiar with Stuart Kelly for his elegant author interviews from Rick Stein to Maggie O’Farrell, so it is with great pleasure that we welcome him back, this time as the star of the show, talking about his new book, The Minister and the Murderer. Stuart will be ‘in conversation’ with the director of the …

Regulars at our events will be familiar with Stuart Kelly for his elegant author interviews from Rick Stein to Maggie O’Farrell, so it is with great pleasure that we welcome him back, this time as the star of the show, talking about his new book, The Minister and the Murderer. Stuart will be ‘in conversation’ with the director of the …

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The Sober Diaries

Blog · Posted December 18, 2017

Join us at Mainstreet on 31st January to meet a woman who managed to give up drink and keep her sense of humour, oh, and beat cancer and lose two stone at the same time. The Sober Diaries is a brave, honest and at times hilarious account of how one woman gave up drinking and started living. It could change …

Join us at Mainstreet on 31st January to meet a woman who managed to give up drink and keep her sense of humour, oh, and beat cancer and lose two stone at the same time. The Sober Diaries is a brave, honest and at times hilarious account of how one woman gave up drinking and started living. It could change …

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AUTHOR EVENT: CLARE POOLEY

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Join us at Mainstreet on 31st January to meet a woman who managed to give up drink and keep her sense of humour, oh, and beat cancer and lose two stone at the same time. The Sober Diaries is a brave, honest and at times hilarious account of how one woman gave up drinking and started living. It could change …

Join us at Mainstreet on 31st January to meet a woman who managed to give up drink and keep her sense of humour, oh, and beat cancer and lose two stone at the same time. The Sober Diaries is a brave, honest and at times hilarious account of how one woman gave up drinking and started living. It could change …

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Fantastic Beasts

Blog · Posted November 16, 2017

Following our highly competitive Harry Potter 20th Anniversary Quiz in the summer, we are thrilled to announce that Olivia Lomenech Gill, illustrator of the beautiful new edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander’s (aka JK Rowling), will be at Mainstreet on Wed 6th Dec. To celebrate publication, come and hear Olivia talk about how she …

Following our highly competitive Harry Potter 20th Anniversary Quiz in the summer, we are thrilled to announce that Olivia Lomenech Gill, illustrator of the beautiful new edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander’s (aka JK Rowling), will be at Mainstreet on Wed 6th Dec. To celebrate publication, come and hear Olivia talk about how she …

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AUTHOR EVENT: FANTASTIC BEASTS

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Following our highly competitive Harry Potter 20th Anniversary Quiz in the summer, we are thrilled to announce that Olivia Lomenech Gill, illustrator of the beautiful new edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander’s (aka JK Rowling), will be at Mainstreet on Wed 6th Dec. To celebrate publication, come and hear Olivia talk about how she …

Following our highly competitive Harry Potter 20th Anniversary Quiz in the summer, we are thrilled to announce that Olivia Lomenech Gill, illustrator of the beautiful new edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander’s (aka JK Rowling), will be at Mainstreet on Wed 6th Dec. To celebrate publication, come and hear Olivia talk about how she …

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Perfect by Rachel Joyce

Blog · Posted November 13, 2017

Join us at Mainstreet to hear Rachel Joyce, who shot to fame with her novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, talk about her new novel, Perfect. “A near-flawless novel of emotional truth. Joyce executes this story with precision and flair… It is her clever did-I-read-that-right twist at the end that really got to me and had me scrabbling back …

Join us at Mainstreet to hear Rachel Joyce, who shot to fame with her novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, talk about her new novel, Perfect. “A near-flawless novel of emotional truth. Joyce executes this story with precision and flair… It is her clever did-I-read-that-right twist at the end that really got to me and had me scrabbling back …

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Andy McNab

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We are very excited to announce that Andy McNab will be at Mainstreet on Wed 21st May to talk about Fortress, the second in his Tom Buckingham series. This is a man who writes from personal experience, he is renowned for his energetic and exciting events. “McNab’s great asset is that the heart of his fiction is non-fiction: other thriller …

We are very excited to announce that Andy McNab will be at Mainstreet on Wed 21st May to talk about Fortress, the second in his Tom Buckingham series. This is a man who writes from personal experience, he is renowned for his energetic and exciting events. “McNab’s great asset is that the heart of his fiction is non-fiction: other thriller …

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AUTHOR EVENT: ANDY McNAB

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We are very excited to announce that Andy McNab will be at Mainstreet on Wed 21st May to talk about Fortress, the second in his Tom Buckingham series. This is a man who writes from personal experience, he is renowned for his energetic and exciting events. “McNab’s great asset is that the heart of his fiction is non-fiction: other thriller …

We are very excited to announce that Andy McNab will be at Mainstreet on Wed 21st May to talk about Fortress, the second in his Tom Buckingham series. This is a man who writes from personal experience, he is renowned for his energetic and exciting events. “McNab’s great asset is that the heart of his fiction is non-fiction: other thriller …

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S J Watson

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“Quite simply the best debut novel I’ve ever read” Tess Gerritsen “Brilliant in its pacing, profound in its central question, suspenseful on every page – and satisfying in its thriller ending” Anita Shreve“ “A deft, perceptive exploration of a fascinating neurological condition, and a cracking good thriller” Lionel Shriver These are just a few of the rave reviews that met …

“Quite simply the best debut novel I’ve ever read” Tess Gerritsen “Brilliant in its pacing, profound in its central question, suspenseful on every page – and satisfying in its thriller ending” Anita Shreve“ “A deft, perceptive exploration of a fascinating neurological condition, and a cracking good thriller” Lionel Shriver These are just a few of the rave reviews that met …

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Where Memories Go by Sally Magnusson

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Join us at Mainstreet with Sally Magnusson on Tues 25th Feb for our first event in 2014. It will be something quite different and very special, likely to make you laugh and cry, though not perhaps in equal measure. Regarded as one of the finest journalists of her generation, Sally’s mother, Mamie Baird Magnusson’s whole life was a celebration of …

Join us at Mainstreet with Sally Magnusson on Tues 25th Feb for our first event in 2014. It will be something quite different and very special, likely to make you laugh and cry, though not perhaps in equal measure. Regarded as one of the finest journalists of her generation, Sally’s mother, Mamie Baird Magnusson’s whole life was a celebration of …

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