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Friday 7 November 2014

Literature and Landscape in East Devon: book launch: Friday 12th December

There have been several interesting book-launches of late:
Futures Forum: Knowle: book launch
Futures Forum: From Bury to Sidmouth: book launch
Futures Forum: Gerald Counter's Sidmouth: an insight into Eastern Town

The latest book launch will be just in time for Christmas!






















Sidmouth Preview Book Launch and Performance of Local Writing

Friday 12th December 2014

‘All Saints’ Church Hall,
All Saints’ Road,
Sidmouth, EX10 8ES

6-8pm

As a first, full literary companion to the East Devon area, A4 in size and full colour, this beautiful book combines large photographs with serious research, quotations, observations on literature and landscape. Included also is a map, information on the writers, an index and bibliography, plus directions as to where the authors walked in the area so readers can follow in their footsteps.

The aim is both to celebrate and draw attention to this unique and threatened part of rural England. Birthplace of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sir Walter Raleigh, a setting for stories and poems by Jane Austen, H.G Wells, John Fowles, C. Day Lewis, John Betjeman, Beatrix Potter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and others, East Devon remains as attractive to writers today as ever. The publication of this book aims to help keep it this way.

RSVP to Mike Temple, stating number attending: michael.temple@btinternet.com or Tel: 01395 577461

The dramatisation of the book starts promptly at 6.30.

Sidmouth preview book launch and performance - Claire Wright
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