This Memoir writing course is for beginners/introvert/nervous writers! It’s a chance to carve out two hours a week doing what you love and engaging the creative part of your brain which is good for the soul! You’ll meet likeminded people in small groups of 6-8. Packed with exercises, skills, prompts, fun and sharing (breathe!). Limited space. Booking essential
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Beginner’s Creative Writing
Our next course starts on 17th Sept at 6.15pm and runs for five weeks. It costs £125 and is for beginners/introvert/nervous writers! It’s a chance to carve out two hours a week doing what you love and engaging the creative part of your brain which is good for the soul! You’ll meet likeminded people (small groups of 6-8) and do [read more…]
Celia Brayfield on The Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists in Bath
In Rebel Writers, Celia Brayfield tells the story of a pioneering group of young women writers – Shelagh Delaney, Edna O’Brien, Lynne Reid Banks, Margaret Forster, Virginia Ironside, Charlotte Bingham and Nell Dunn – who challenged the status quo and changed women’s lives forever. In London in 1958 a play by a 19-year-old redefined women’s writing in Britain. The play [read more…]
Country Walk in Bath
Bath is surrounded by countryside of extraordinary beauty and diversity, much of it little changed since the city’s 18th-century heyday. Local expert and passionate walker and explorer of Bath’s fascinating landscape, Andrew Swift, will be taking us on a country walk starting from the Bookshop (where we will meet at 10am for coffee and cake). The walk will last approximately [read more…]
An evening with Robert Harris
From the No. 1 bestselling author of Fatherland, An Officer and a Spy, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii and The Ghost comes this brand new historical fiction novel by Robert Harris: The Second Sleep. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts – [read more…]
The Vanishing Hours
Barney Norris has to be one of the most exciting young voices in books right now. Already an award-winning playwright at the age of just 32, his debut novel “Five Rivers met on a Wooded Plain”, became a Times bestseller (and earned him a place on our Sam’s favourites shelf) and his second novel – “Turning for Home”, was steeped [read more…]
Paperback Ramblers walking book group: foraging walk!
For our August meeting, we’ve got a special treat: a guided foraging walk! Our experienced and knowledgeable guide will lead us on a tour of some of Bath’s best foraging spots. At the same time we’ll have an opportunity to talk about Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household. Rogue Male is a classic 20th Century thriller, featuring the theme of utilising the natural world to [read more…]
Success with novel competitions
Caroline Ambrose, founder of the Bath Novel Award, will talk us through the judging process for the prize. What are her readers looking for in the submissions? What is it that assures your entry of a place on the shortlist? Does genre matter? Are first sentences really that important? Is first person a no-no? And what happens when you win? [read more…]
Masterclasses Narrative Arc and Show not Tell with Susan Elderkin
Show don’t tell Masterclass Yes, you’ve heard it before: show, don’t tell. But if there’s one single way to give your writing more umph, this is it. And the way we’ll go about it, you’ll grasp it like you’ve never grasped it before. Prepare to see your writing rise to a whole new level! This three-hour masterclass on Show Don’t [read more…]
The Art of Creative Journaling with Jill Carter
Join us for an inspirational day exploring THE ART OF CREATIVE JOURNALING with Jill Carter, Multi-Media Artist. Creative Journaling is an open-ended process, which can be expressive, intuitive, practical, poetic and playful! This Artists’ professional development workshop will offer space and time to explore ideas around how to use a journal to document thoughts and ideas in relation to the [read more…]