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SUMMARY:An Evening with... David Baldacci
DESCRIPTION:The incredible David Baldacci is coming to Penarth! Join us for a special evening in the company of the former US trial lawyer turned international bestselling author. David will be chatting to bookshop owner Mel Griffin about his thrilling new series featuring compelling anti-hero Walter Nash\, which began with Nash Falls and continues this spring with Hope Rises. \nMeet Walter Nash:\nAn ordinary family man thrown into a dangerous underworld. Once upon a time\, Walter Nash was a mild-mannered\, hard-working\, happy man. Minding his own business\, looking after his family. Everything changed when the FBI revealed his company as a criminal empire and enlisted him in a daring mission to dismantle it. Driven by justice and revenge\, Nash was forced to dive into a very dark world. One that shattered his life. Underestimate Walter Nash at your peril\, because a man who has lost everything is capable of anything. Walter Nash isn’t the man he used to be. But when everything crumbles\, hope rises… \nDavid Baldacci is an award-winning global #1 bestselling author\, and one of the world’s favourite thriller writers.  A former trial lawyer with a keen interest in world politics\, he has specialist knowledge of the US political system and intelligence services. His first book\, Absolute Power\, became an instant international hit\, with the movie starring Clint Eastwood a major box office success. He has since written more than fifty novels featuring a variety of characters including Walter Nash\, Travis Devine\, Amos Decker and Aloysius Archer. David is also the co-founder\, along with his wife\, of the Wish You Well Foundation\, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across the US. \nWHAT TO EXPECT: David Baldacci will be in conversation with bookshop owner Mel Griffin (around 50 minutes)\, followed by an audience Q&A (15 mins). David will then be available after the ‘in-conversation’ part of the event to sign books and add personal dedications. \nBOOKS: Copies of Nash Falls and Hope Rises can be pre-ordered with your ticket for a special discount. Additional back-list titles will be available to purchase at the event. \n***\nThursday 30 July | 7.30 pm\nThe Paget Rooms\, Penarth \nTickets: £26.00 includes a SIGNED hardback copy of Hope Rises (RRP: £22.00 )* / £16.00 includes a SIGNED paperback copy of Nash Falls (RRP: £9.99)* / £12.00 Event Only** / £5.00 Student Ticket / £5.00 Inclusive Ticket \n*Any book not collected at the event will be held at Griffin Books for three months after the date of the event.\n** There are a limited number of Event Only\, Inclusive and Student tickets available.
URL:https://www.penarthtowncouncil.gov.uk/event/an-evening-with-david-baldacci-2/
LOCATION:Paget Rooms Penarth\, Paget Rooms Penarth
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SUMMARY:Robert Harris: Agrippa
DESCRIPTION:We’re delighted to welcome international bestselling author Robert Harris to Penarth this autumn to celebrate the release of his new novel\, Agrippa. \nFew thriller writers have attained both critical acclaim and public devotion to the same extent as Robert Harris. He first made his name as a star journalist\, becoming a well-known face on Panorama and Newsnight before being appointed political editor of The Observer aged 30. His first novel\, Fatherland – an alternative-reality thriller set in a world in which Hitler had been victorious – was an immediate and phenomenal bestseller. He is now the author of sixteen bestselling novels\, including Enigma\, Pompeii\, Conclave\, Munich and most recently Precipice. His Cicero Trilogy has been called ‘the finest fictional treatment of Ancient Rome in the English Language’. \nRobert returns to Ancient Rome in his new historical thriller Agrippa\, a compelling exploration of friendship and power. \nAgrippa:\nJulius Caesar is dead\, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. One is Caesar’s 17-year-old nephew\, Octavius\, whom he has made his heir. The other is Octavius’s closest friend\, Agrippa. \nTo claim Octavius’s inheritance\, they must fight the giant figures of the Roman Empire – and\, against all odds\, they win. Octavius becomes the Emperor Augustus. For twenty years\, they rule the world together. \nNow Agrippa is fifty. Ailing and alone\, betrayed by his wife’s infidelity\, he takes refuge in his house on the Bay of Naples and begins to write his memoirs. Yet to stir up the past can be dangerous. From his earliest meetings with Julius Caesar\, through the epic conflict with Mark Antony and Cleopatra\, the great naval battle of Actium and the endless wars to expand the empire\, he describes how one man has dominated his life: the cunning\, ruthless\, unknowable Octavius. \nWhen it comes to power\, does friendship exist at all? \nRobert Harris is the author of sixteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy – Imperium\, Lustrum and Dictator – Fatherland\, Enigma\, Archangel\, Pompeii\, The Ghost\, The Fear Index\, An Officer and a Spy\, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction\, Conclave\, Munich\, The Second Sleep\, V2\, Act of Oblivion and Precipice. His work has been translated into forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife\, Gill Hornby. \n***\nSaturday 5 September | 7.30 pm\nThe Paget Rooms\, Penarth \nTickets: £28.00 includes a SIGNED hardback copy of Agrippa (RRP: £22.00)* / £15.00 Event Only** / £5.00 Student Ticket / £5.00 Inclusive Ticket \n*Any book not collected at the event will be held at Griffin Books for three months after the date of the event.\n** There are a limited number of Event Only\, Inclusive and Student tickets available.
URL:https://www.penarthtowncouncil.gov.uk/event/robert-harris-agrippa-3/
LOCATION:Paget Rooms Penarth\, Paget Rooms Penarth
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