{"id":2405,"date":"2019-06-13T15:37:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2019-06-13T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:37:34","slug":"book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2019\/06\/13\/book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 30th saw the launch of my book, <em>The Country of Larks<\/em>, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/chilternbookshops.co.uk\/contact\/chorleywood-shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chorleywood Bookshop<\/a>. This independent store has been selling great books to the residents of the Chilterns for over forty years, and laid on a lovely evening for the event. A glass of wine (or two), a short speech and a pile of books to sign (see below), and it was all over. Now for a summer of readings and signings, including at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marlowbookshop.co.uk\/events\/journey-through-the-chilterns-with-gail-simmons-and-helen-and-neil-matthews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marlow Bookshop<\/a>\u00a0(27th June),\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/gail-simmons-the-country-of-larks-tickets-62594149787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackwell&#8217;s, Oxford<\/a>, (5th July), Waterstones, Berkhamsted, (13th July) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheniesmanorhouse.co.uk\/visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plant Fair in Chenies Manor<\/a>\u00a0(14th July). Hope you can make one of these events if you are in the area!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2406\" style=\"width: 1642px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2406\" src=\"https:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/06\/img_9395-small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9395 small\" width=\"1642\" height=\"1095\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u00a9 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snapdragonphotography.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snapdragon Photography<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 30th saw the launch of my book, The Country of Larks, at the Chorleywood Bookshop. This independent store has been selling great books to the residents of the Chilterns for over forty years, and laid on a lovely evening for the event. A glass of wine (or two), a short speech and a pile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[8,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}