{"id":2423,"date":"2019-07-03T10:34:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T10:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2019-07-03T10:34:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T10:34:52","slug":"2423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2019\/07\/03\/2423\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and talking in Marlow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week saw me at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BzQ15QBBEl2\/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marlow Bookshop<\/a>, talking about my book <em>The Country of Larks<\/em> alongside the authors of the new <em>Slow Guide to the Chilterns<\/em>. I&#8217;d never visited this bookshop before &#8211; it&#8217;s a branch of Daunts (the main shop is on Marylebone High Street in London), and recently won the 2019 Muddy Stilettos award for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marlowbookshop.co.uk\/we-won\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best bookshop in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire<\/a>. And Marlow itself is a special place: an historically significant town on the River Thames and home for many years to Jerome K Jerome, author of the humorous classic <em>Three Men in a Boat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The bookshop was a lovely space to hold the event &#8211; all William Morris wallpaper and wooden bookshelves &#8211; which was well attended, with many insightful questions from the interviewer and audience. This coming Friday (5th July) I&#8217;ll be at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/gail-simmons-the-country-of-larks-tickets-62594149787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackwell&#8217;s in Oxford<\/a>, and the weekend after at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/events\/search\/shop\/berkhamsted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waterstones in Berkhamsted<\/a> (15th July). Please do join me if you&#8217;re around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/marlow-bookshop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2425\" src=\"https:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/marlow-bookshop.jpg?w=240\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week saw me at the Marlow Bookshop, talking about my book The Country of Larks alongside the authors of the new Slow Guide to the Chilterns. I&#8217;d never visited this bookshop before &#8211; it&#8217;s a branch of Daunts (the main shop is on Marylebone High Street in London), and recently won the 2019 Muddy [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423"}],"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=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}