All are welcome at the events at the bookshop.
Ariane Bankes
The Quality of Love
Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
Book Launch on Friday 3rd May at 6 pm
Join us to celebrate the publication of Ariane Bankes’ memoir of her mother and aunt.
When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives of the Paget sisters and their friends and lovers, including Arthur Koestler, Albert Camus, Sartre and de Beauvoir, and George Orwell. Out of this rich archive, The Quality of Love weaves the story of these captivating and unusually beautiful identical twins who overcame a meagre education to take 1930s London society by storm and move among Europe’s foremost intellectuals during the twentieth century’s most dramatic decades.
Bill Crow
Sam Rabin
Book Launch on Friday 26th of April at 6.00 pm
Renaissance Man or Everyman?
How do we best describe the multi-faceted, helter skelter career of Sam Rabin who spent the whole of his life trying to justify the money his poor immigrant parents invested in his art education?
In turn he became a sculptor, an Olympic athlete, a professional wrestler, a boxer, a film stunt man, a wartime entertainer, a singer of classics for the BBC, a renown teacher of drawing at Goldsmiths’ College, and finally a painter with a unique talent. All for nothing it would seem as he dies and slips into obscurity.”
Join us for the launch of much-loved local art historian, Bill Crow’s fascinating biography celebrating the extraordinary life of Sam Rabin.
No need to RSVP — all welcome, but it would be helpful to have any idea of numbers so email us if you’d like to come.
A New Suffolk Garland
An anthology of Suffolk writing and art compiled in celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and the Festival of Suffolk and sold in aid of The Festival of Suffolk Charity Fund.
£25 standard edition hardback with dust-jacket.
Olivia Laing
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
Monday 27th May at 6 pm
At The Aldeburgh Bookshop
Tickets £15 includes a glass of wine and £5 off the book (£20)