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Local Sunday Showcase
Local Sunday Showcase

Sun 24 Sept

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The Observer Building

Local Sunday Showcase

A fast moving morning in which a specially chosen set of local , published non fiction authors, talk about their specialist subjects for just 10 minutes each.

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Time & Location

24 Sept 2023, 11:00 – 13:00

The Observer Building, 53 Cambridge Rd, Hastings TN34 1DT, UK

About The Event

In a first for the book festival, we are hosting a morning in which six authors will talk for exactly 10 minutes each about the subjects of their books. 

There'll be an unusual mix of subjects with something for everyone. 

The morning will be hosted by Mary Jane Baxter who, in addition to her comperering duties will be relating the story of her book, too - how she threw up a job as a BBC Brussels correspondent to decorate the outside of a camper van, install a hand-cranked sewing machine and drive off round Europe on a voyage of creativity.

Tessa Boase will be talking about the amazing shopping experience provided in the heyday of the great and now departed department stores - ‘a vanished world of dazzle and dreams’.

Gareth E Rees' talk will be on places that lie on the margins of our towns - industrial estates, car…

Tickets

  • Sunday Showcase

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    • £12.50

      +£0.31 ticket service fee

    • Sunday Showcase

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      • £6.50

        +£0.16 ticket service fee

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