What’s on in York: Crawly Creepies in James’ Giant Peach – Acomb Explore Library tomorrow (Tuesday)
Summer Craft Fair
Clifton Explore Library :
Sat 23 Jul :
10.00am – 1.00pm :
Free
Come along to our Summer Craft Fair. Bag a bargain. Treat your self or friends and family. Browse the stalls, have a coffee & cake, borrow a book.
Free entry into the Craft Fair. Stalls include jewellery, cards, knitted & fabric goods, cakes, gifts and much more. Local children’s author Anne Stephenson will be promoting her books.
Tables £7 for the morning bookable in advance.
Refreshments available for a small charge.
Please contact Clifton Library Explore for more details or to book a table on (01904) 552662 or clifton@exploreyork.org.uk
What’s on in York: Robot Island at Explore Acomb Library tomorrow (Saturday)
Sarah Maine: The House Between Tides
York Explore Library :
Wed 20 Jul :
6.30pm – 7.30pm :
£4 (£3 with a York Card)
Sarah Maine will be speaking about writing her debut novel The House Between Tides – a beautiful and haunting historical mystery.
Hear the author speak about her debut novel set in the Outer Hebrides, The House Between Tides.
In the present day, Hetty Deveraux returns to the family home of Muirlan House on a remote Hebridean island estate following the untimely death of her parents. Torn between selling the house and turning it into a hotel, Hetty undertakes urgent repairs, accidentally uncovering human remains.
Who has been lying beneath the floorboards for a century? Were they murdered? Through diaries and letters she finds, Hetty discovers that the house was occupied at the turn of the century by distant relative Beatrice Blake, a young aristocratic woman recently married to renowned naturalist and painter, Theodore Blake. With socialist and suffragist leanings Beatrice is soon in conflict with her autocratic new husband, who is distant, and wrapped up in Cameron, a young man from the island.
As Beatrice is also drawn to Cameron, life for them becomes dangerous, sparking a chain of events that will change many lives, leaving Hetty to assemble the jigsaw of clues piece by piece one hundred years later, as she obsessively chases the truth.
Fans of Kate Morton will love this atmospheric and immersive novel.
Tickets cost £4 (£3 with a York Card)
Tickets can be bought online at www.feelinginspired.co.uk or at any York library.
There are a maximum of 50 tickets available.
Executive snubs Lowfields residents
The York Council is to consult residents on a plan to build on most of the former Lowfields school site.
Former Lowfields School entrance
Last night members of the committee and officials refused to acknowledge the concerns about the plan which were tabled by local Councillor Andrew Waller.
The committee had been told of the results of a survey undertaken in the area over the last week (see foot of page).
The survey results – covering over 300 households – revealed that the community was dismayed at some of the remarks contained in an officer report.
In particular:
Labour Councillors first considered building on the football pitches in 2012.
- The suggestion that any development should be “piecemeal”. Residents have no desire to see construction traffic accessing the site over an extended period of time and are fearful that the maintenance standards that will apply to any undeveloped plots will be inadequate. They want to see an early completion of the whole of the site
- The inclusion of any “hospital”, police depot or GP surgery all of which would have an impact on 24/7 traffic volumes, put more pressure on parking spaces and bring noise and disturbance to what is otherwise an entirely residential area. Residents say that any “hub” facilities – such as a police desk – should be located at the Library on Front Street (where there is adequate expansion potential to the rear of the existing buildings)
- The reduction in open space to less than ½ the area of a football pitch is unacceptable. Residents want green space and want part of it to be allocated as a site for a nature reserve (lack of maintenance had de facto already effectively turned parts of the site into a wild life area over the last decade). Several have said that they would like to see a play park established.
- Building high density houses would exacerbate parking problems. Such problems are acute at the quoted paradigm comparator location (the top of Tedder Road). Bungalows and older persons (downsizing) apartments would be more acceptable as the number of vehicles owned by occupants of this type of property is likely to be low,
Many residents say that they hoped that the Council would agree to honour its historic commitment to the local community and restrict development to a 6.5 acre site.
What’s on in York: Inside the Minds of Crime Writers
York Explore Library:
Thu 14 Jul :
6.30pm – 7.30pm :
£4 (£3 with a York Card)
Our crime panel is back to discuss the detectives, murderers and plots that have led them to a life of crime… writing.
Author David Mark is leading our collective of crime writers, Helen Cadbury, Danielle Ramsay, Nick Quantrill and Amit Dhand in a discussion on how they write and what they find so thrilling about crime writing.
Tickets cost £4 (£3 with a York Card)
Tickets can be bought online at www.feelinginspired.co.uk or at any York library.
There are a maximum of 50 tickets avaiable.
What’s on in York: Tracy Borman – The Private Lives of the Tudors
York Explore Library :
Tue 12 Jul :
7.00pm – 8.30pm :
£4 from Waterstones York only
Tracy Borman is one of the UK’s leading historians and will be appearing at York Explore to discuss her new book, The Private Lives of Tudors.
Using accounts of eyewitnesses, as well as a rich array of other contemporary sources, historian Tracy Borman has examined the Tudors more closely than ever before. With new insights and discoveries, The Private Life of the Tudors will reveal previously unexamined details about the characters we think we know so well.
Waterstones will provide a bookstall where Tracy will sign copies.
There are a maximum of 100 tickets available.
For more information or to book tickets
Tel: 01904 620784
What’s on in York: Sophie Franklin – Charlotte Bronte Revisited – a view from the twenty-first century
York Explore Library :
Mon 11 Jul :
6.30pm – 7.30pm :
£4 (£3 with a York Card)
Everybody knows Charlotte Bronte. World-famous for her novel Jane Eyre, she’s a giant of literature and has been written about in reverential tones in scores of textbooks over the years. But what do we really know about Charlotte?
In this bicentennial year,Charlotte Bronte Revisited looks at Charlotte through 21st-century eyes.Discover her private world of convention, rebellion and imagination, and how they shaped her life, writing and obsessions – including the paranormal, nature, feminism and politics. It’s a celebration of all things Charlotte Bronte, and emphatically shows why she’s as relevant today as she ever was.
Sophie Franklin is forging a successful academic career studying the lives of the Bronte sisters and their literary works. She has worked in an editorial capacity for a small publishing house and in bookselling, and is currently at the University of Durham, working towards a PhD on aspects of Charlotte Bronte’s writing. This is Sophie’s first book.
Tickets can be bought online at www.feelinginspired.co.uk or at any York library.
There are a maximum of 50 tickets available.
Meet author Jean Harrod: A diplomat turned crime writer
York Explore Library :
Thu 7 Jul : 6.30pm – 8.00pm :
£3 or £2 with a York Card
Jean Harrod will talk about her life as a diplomat. She worked behind the ‘Iron’ Curtain (East Berlin) during the Cold War, and the ‘Bamboo’ Curtain (Peking and Shanghai) after Mao’s death; and in many other embassies around the world.
As British Consul, Indonesia, she dealt with murders, missing persons, and a terrorist kidnapping involving Britons, working with the police on investigations and forensics. One day, she decided, she would write a series of diplomatic crime novels.
Deadly Diplomacy was published in 2015, featuring diplomat Jess Turner and Australian DI Sangster. A British businesswoman is brutally murdered in a Queensland resort. Jess travels to Brisbane to liaise with the police and the help the victim’s journalist sister. They soon become the killer’s target.
Deadly Deceit (June 2016) is set in the British Turks and Caicos Islands, Caribbean, where Jess Turner is on assignment to the Governor’s Office. The coral seas are stunning, but things are not what they seem. The locals are upset about illegal migrants from Haiti arriving on their shores, and fearful of their voodoo. The Governor is critically injured in an accident, and a brutal murder occurs. What Jess uncovers sends shockwaves all the way to London.
For more information about Jean please visit www.jeanharrod.com or visit her on twitter: @jeanharrod.
Ticket can be bought online at www.feelinginspired.co.uk or at any York library.
There are a maximum of 60 tickets available.