This Month’s Programme
Our guest this month is Ally Sherrick, prize-winning author of rip-roaring historical adventures. Ally launched her latest book, Rebel Heart at Farnham last week. With actual cavaliers!
This month’s books were:
- Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
- A Thousand Threads by Neneh Cherry
- What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean by Helen Scales
- Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Courageous WW2 Resistance Fighter Elżbieta Zawacka by Clare Mulley
- The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke
- Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
- James by Percival Everett
- The Golden Hour by Kate Lord Brown
- Air by John Boyne
- A Family Matter by Claire Lynch
- Manhattan Down by Michael Cordy
- Concise medicinal Plants Guide by Tiffany Francis-Baker
- Sword by Max hastings
- Is A River Alive by Robert Macfarlane
- Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
- Trelawny’s Cornwall by Petroc Trelawny
- Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
- The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer
- We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
Ally Sherrick’s website is here
These resources give further access:-
- https://www.chickenhousebooks.com/schools/ally-sherrick-author/ My page on the Schools’ Hub on the Chicken House website which includes the teaching resources for Rebel Heart
- https://www.nationalcivilwarcentre.com/visit/ The national museum for the Civil Wars packed full of fascinating exhibits about the wars and the life and times
- Two places which helped inspire my story – both of which were besieged during the Wars: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/dorset/corfe-castle
- https://www.hampshireculture.org.uk/basing-house
- The Naseby Battlefield website including details of a self-guided driving tour you can do round the site: https://naseby.com/
- And finally, this is a brilliant website for anyone interested in all aspects of the wars and who wants to deep-dive. An excellent educational resource too: https://www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/
BBC Sound’s Book Club link – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001mls3
Events at One Tree Books
- Petersfield Writers Group – Every Tuesday from 2:30pm
- Book Club Meetings – Please click on the link for more information
- Current Affairs Discussion – First Wednesday of every month
at 1:30pm
A new edition of Talking Books is broadcast on the third Monday of the month at 8pm on Petersfield’s Shine Radio. It’s repeated at many other times during the month.
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