Events

Join Bee Rowlatt for a lively conversation with Kate Slotover, co-founder of The Book Club Review podcast – about her novel One Woman Crime Wave, a sharp, funny (and very local) novel blending crime and social satire. Bee will talk about using comedy to explore moral failings, and how her work brings together uncomfortable truths, flawed… Continue reading A Criminally Good Time: Satire and Suspense in ‘One Woman Crime Wave’ – Bee Rowlatt

The Brontë Play depicts the family life of the famous sisters, with scenes from Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Beth Shaw and Martin Bould return with another of their popular domestic theatre plays. Come and take a part of Brontë family members and associates, or fictional characters from the novels, as the story of Patrick… Continue reading The Brontë Play – Beth Shaw and Martin Bould

1860s Swansea, where copper can make your fortune – at a price. A mariner gambles everything on the deadly copper trade while his wife uncovers the industry’s toll at home. Ambition and morality collide. Carolyn Morgan, a keen amateur sailor, has always been fascinated by her great-great grandfather John Clement, who skippered ships around Cape… Continue reading Copperopolis – Carolyn Morgan

William Pettigrew led a team of nine historians in a project to unearth every known investor in Britain’s transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on what is now known of 13,000 individuals, he has written a new version of Britain’s history which transforms our understanding of who these traffickers were and reveals – for the first time… Continue reading Britain’s Slave Traders: A Forgotten History – William Pettigrew

Ajay Chowdhury is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director who was born in India and now lives locally. He builds digital businesses, cooks experimental dishes for his wife and daughters and writes through the night. The Waiter, the first in his critically acclaimed crime series about Detective Kamil Rahman, an ex-policeman from Kolkata who has… Continue reading Ajay Chowdhury