{"title":"Events Archive","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eWant to get an idea of what we do at our Golden Hare events? Browse our archive to see what's come before!\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"vehicle-with-jen-calleja-book-ticket-option","title":"Vehicle with Jen Calleja - Book \u0026 Ticket Option","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePurchase your copy of \u003cem\u003eVehicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eand receive a free ticket to our event with Jen Calleja!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor the ticket-only option for this event, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.pro\/products\/vehicle-with-jen-calleja-ticket-only-option?_pos=2\u0026amp;_sid=644ca9979\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eplease click here.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThursday 16th March at 18:30\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/JenCalleja_1_RobinSilasChristian_1_480x480.jpg?v=1671127228\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are so excited to welcome Jen Calleja to Golden Hare Books to celebrate her innovative novel \u003cem\u003eVehicle.\u003c\/em\u003e She will be joined in conversation by Camilla Grudova.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe will follow up on your purchase with an email with more details on the event, which will be held at Golden Hare Books on St Stephen Street.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout \u003cem\u003eVehicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a time when looking into the past has become a socially unacceptable and illegal act in the Nation, a group of scholars are offered an attractive residency to allow them to pursue their projects. When the residency transpires to be a devastating trick, these Researchers go on the run, and soon discover that their projects all relate to one major event: the Isletese Disaster – the decline and subsequent devastation fifty years earlier of a long-forgotten roaming archipelago called The Islets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne figure emerges as central to all of their work: Hester Heller, a reformed cult musiker turned student recruited from the Institute for Transmission as an agent of the state and tasked with gathering reconnaissance on the Disaster by using her old band Vehicle as a cover. Heller is the key to the Researchers collective story, which they try to piece together while evading their pursuers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompiled from the Researchers’ disparate documentation, recollections, and even their imaginations,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVehicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a metafictional work of literary speculative fiction, and a timely and daring exploration of xenophobia, exploitation, the writing of histories and legacies, and the politics of translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Jen Calleja\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJen Calleja is a writer and translator based in London. Her work as appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe London Magazine, Ambit, Another Gaze, TLS, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e, to name a few. She has published two collections of poetry, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSerious Justice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (Test Centre, 2016) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHamburger in the Archive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (if a leaf falls, 2019). Prototype Publishing published her first collection of short fiction, \u003cem\u003eI'm Afraid That's All We've Got Time For\u003c\/em\u003e, in 2020. Her translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Pine Islands\u003c\/em\u003e by Marion Poschmann was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Jen is also a founding editor of Praspar Press, a micro-publisher of Maltese literature in English translation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44152161272122,"sku":"9781913513344","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/products\/9781913513344_1.jpg?v=1671128221"},{"product_id":"writing-landscape-with-linda-cracknell-jim-carruth-ticket-book-option","title":"Writing Landscape with Linda Cracknell \u0026 Jim Carruth - Ticket \u0026 Book Option","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is the ticket \u0026amp; book option for this event. For the ticket only option, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.pro\/products\/writing-landscape-with-linda-cracknell-jim-carruth-ticket-only-option?_pos=2\u0026amp;_sid=2f72fa859\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eplease click here.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYou can also purchase Jim Carruth's book \u003cem\u003eFar Field\u003c\/em\u003e and receive a free ticket. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.pro\/products\/9781846976360?_pos=4\u0026amp;_sid=2f72fa859\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003ePlease click here to purchase \u003cem\u003eFar Field.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThursday, 25th of May at 18:30\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/LindaCracknellauthorcreditRobinDance_480x480.jpg?v=1681556983\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have the pleasure to announce that we'll be welcoming Linda Cracknell and Jim Carruth to the bookshop on the 25th of May to chat about Linda's book, \u003cem\u003eWriting Landscape.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eWriting Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful collection that will excite and inspire any writers of nature. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe will follow up on your purchase with an email with more details on the event, which will be held at \u003cstrong\u003eGolden Hare Books\u003c\/strong\u003e on St Stephen Street. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout \u003cem\u003eWriting Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Linda Cracknell, exposure to wind, rock, mist, and salt water is integral to her writing process. She follows Susan Sontag's advice to \"Love words, agonise over sentences, and pay attention to the world,\" observing and writing her landscapes from the particulars of each moment. In this varied essay collection, Linda backpacks on a small island that is connected to the mainland only at low tide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn winter snow, she hikes the wooded hillside close to her home, a place she is intimately familiar with in all seasons. And she retraces over three days the steps of a trek made by her parents seven decades earlier. She explores her inspirations, in nature and from other artists and their work, and she offers thoughtful writing prompts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReading \u003cem\u003eWriting Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e will take you to new places, open your eyes to the world, and suggest ways to take note and make notes as you go-to inspire your own attentive looking, journaling, and writing practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Linda Cracknell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLinda Cracknell is a writer of narrative non-fiction on the natural world, as well as of fiction and radio scripts. Her first story collection was nominated for a Saltire Award (now Scotland’s National Book Awards) and the Robin Jenkins Award for environmental writing, and her essay collection \u003cem\u003eDoubling Back: Ten Paths Trodden in Memory,\u003c\/em\u003e about journeys she took on foot in Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, and Kenya, was serialised for BBC Radio as a Book of the Week. All of Linda’s writing is inspired first and foremost by place, and she teaches creative writing, especially nature and place writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Jim Carruth \u0026amp; Far Field\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJim Carruth has published numerous collections of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eBovine Pastoral\u003c\/em\u003e (Ludovic Press, 2004), \u003cem\u003eProdigal\u003c\/em\u003e (Mariscat Press, 2014) and \u003cem\u003eBlack Cart\u003c\/em\u003e (Freight Books, 2017). He has received much recognition for his work including a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and the James McCash Poetry Prize, while his verse novel, \u003cem\u003eKillochries\u003c\/em\u003e (Freight Books, 2015) was shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize, the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize and the Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Award. In 2014 he was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFar Field\u003c\/em\u003e (Polygon, 2023) \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis the third and final book in The Auchensale Trilogy, a series of poetry cycles capturing the changing rural landscape of the West of Scotland. Following on from its predecessors Black Cart and Bale Fire, the book consists of three cycles bound together by footers. A number of poems in the early part of the book are in response to paintings by the Glasgow Boys particularly those painted during their time spent in agricultural communities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMany of the poems are highly personal with a number about family members. These include a series of elegies for his late father. It also focuses on the present day looking to the challenges ahead for the family farm and that passing baton to the next generation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Hare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44929341686074,"sku":"9781913393724","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/products\/WL_cover.jpg?v=1681559784"},{"product_id":"copy-of-the-old-haunts-with-allan-radcliffe-ticket-book-option","title":"The Old Haunts with Allan Radcliffe - Ticket \u0026 Book option","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is the ticket \u0026amp; book option for this event. For the ticket-only option, \u003ca title=\"The Old Haunts with Allan Radcliffe event ticket\" href=\"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.pro\/products\/the-old-haunts-with-allan-radcliffe-ticket-only-option?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=aed12899a\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eplease click here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWednesday, 20th September at 6.30pm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- - - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe are delighted to be hosting author Allan Radcliffe at the shop and hearing all about his forthcoming debut novel The Old Haunts! He'll be joined in conversation by the one and only Mary Paulson-Ellis. If you thought exciting literary events were reserved for the month of August, think again...\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- - - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the book:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecently bereaved Jamie is staying at a rural steading in the heart of Scotland with his actor boyfriend Alex. The sudden loss of both of Jamie's parents hangs like a shadow over the trip. In his grief, Jamie finds himself sifting through bittersweet memories, from his working-class upbringing in Edinburgh to his bohemian twenties in London, with a growing awareness of his sexuality threaded through these formative years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the present, when Alex is called away to an audition, Jamie can no longer avoid the pull of the past: haunted by an inescapable failure to share his full self with his parents, he must confront his unresolved feelings towards them. In spare, evocative prose, Allan Radcliffe tells a wistful coming-of-age story and paints a tender portrait of grief in all its complexities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout Allan Radcliffe:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAllan Radcliffe\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and theatre critic for \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e in Scotland and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003ewas previously well known among the contributors to the\u003ci\u003e Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSunday Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eBig Issue\u003c\/i\u003e, among other papers and journals. His poetry and short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eOut There, Elsewhere, Markings, the Best Gay Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Writing Scotland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCeltic View\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGutter Magazin\u003c\/i\u003ee and he has written a monologue about the painter Frances MacDonald McNair that has been performed at art galleries up and down the country.  \u003cem\u003eThe Old Haunts\u003c\/em\u003e is his debut novel. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eAuthor photo credit: Ditte Solgaard Dunn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eAbout Mary Paulson-Ellis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Paulson-Ellis \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an award-winning novelist writing across the boundaries of crime, historical and literary fiction. Her debut, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Other Mrs Walker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e bestseller and Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year. Mary’s work has featured in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and on BBC Radio 4 and in 2019 Val McDermid named her one of ten exciting LGBTQ+ writers working today. In 2023 she was appointed Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow by Edinburgh Unesco City of Literature to work on a new book about the city. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmily Noble’s Disgrace\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is her third novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor photo credit: Chris Scott\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Hare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45420699189562,"sku":"9781914148385","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/TheOldHaunts-AllanRadcliffeCover_e7662046-28f8-462d-8500-16c508d516ce.jpg?v=1687185417"},{"product_id":"connective-tissue-with-eleanor-thom-book-ticket-option","title":"Connective Tissue with Eleanor Thom - Book \u0026 Ticket Option","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is the ticket \u0026amp; book option for this event. For the ticket only option,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.pro\/products\/connective-tissue-with-eleanor-thom-ticket-only-option?_pos=2\u0026amp;_sid=830cedc3c\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eplease click here.\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePre-order your copy of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConnective Tissue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003enow and receive a free ticket to the event!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThursday, 14th of September at 6.30pm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe're very excited to announce another event in collaboration with one of our favourite local publishers, Taproot Press. We're pleased to welcome Eleanor Thom to the bookshop as we celebrate her novel, \u003cem\u003eConnective Tissue\u003c\/em\u003e, a very personal story inspired by her own family. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis event will take place at \u003cstrong\u003eGolden Hare Books\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eon St. Stephen Street, and Eleanor will be joined in conversation by Lynsey May, author of \u003cem\u003eWeak Teeth.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout \u003cem\u003eConnective Tissue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSouth-West Scotland, 2010. Air-traffic controller Helena's baby is born with unexplained paralysis. Faced with an unforgiving medical establishment, she turns to the Jewish grandmother she never knew, unfolding the past in search of answers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBerlin, 1937. Single mother and kitchen hand Dora struggles in a city growing increasingly hostile, with questions being asked of bloodlines and identity. Will she always be alone? And how long will she and her daughter be able to call this home?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBased on extensive research into Eleanor Thom's lost family history, \u003cem\u003eConnective Tissue\u003c\/em\u003e is a story of migration, motherhood, and our need to know the people and places that make us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Eleanor Thom\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEleanor Thom writes creative fiction and non-fiction and lives in Edinburgh. Recurring themes in her work are place, social history, memory, and family life. Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Tin-Kin\u003c\/em\u003e (Duckworth, 2009), won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award, and was featured on BBC TV's The Culture Show. Since then, Eleanor has had two children, and she completed her PhD in creative writing in 2018. For the past four years, she has been the Community Writer in Residence for The Edinburgh International Book Festival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Lynsey May\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLynsey May lives, loves and writes in Edinburgh. Her debut novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.pro\/products\/9781846976308?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=7b54a29c5\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWeak Teeth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, was published by Polygon in May 2023. She’s won prizes and fellowships such as a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award, Emerging Scottish Writer at Cove Park and a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. Her short fiction has been published in various journals and anthologies, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Stinging Fly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGutter, New Writing Scotland\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBanshee.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e She’s never far from a cup of coffee and her bag is always too heavy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden Hare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46021742461242,"sku":"9781739207700","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781739207700_fb82cd7d-f0ae-4591-ba54-d713a0ae434d.jpg?v=1691510290"},{"product_id":"black-sea-with-caroline-eden-book-ticket-option","title":"Black Sea with Caroline Eden - Book \u0026 Ticket Option","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is the ticket \u0026amp; book option for this event. For the ticket only option,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.pro\/products\/black-sea-with-caroline-eden-ticket-only-option?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=4c2938a0f\u0026amp;_ss=r\"\u003eplease click here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOrder your copy of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlack Sea \u003c\/em\u003enow and receive a free ticket to the event!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTuesday, 21st of November at 6.30pm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe are happy to announce that Caroline Eden\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"WdYUQQ text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e will be at the bookshop to celebrate an updated edition of her fantastic book, \u003cem\u003eBlack Sea: Dispatches and Recipes - Through Darkness and Light\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eShe will be in conversation with Chitra Ramaswamy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"WdYUQQ text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eWe will follow up on your purchase with an email with more details on the event, which will be held at \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGolden Hare Books on St Stephen Street\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"WdYUQQ text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/4Y2A14152_1_480x480.jpg?v=1697794484\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"WdYUQQ text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eAbout \u003cem\u003eBlack Sea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"WdYUQQ text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eThis is the tale of a journey between three great cities - Odesa, Ukraine's celebrated port city, through Istanbul, the fulcrum balancing Europe and Asia and on to tough, stoic, lyrical Trabzon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a nose for a good recipe and an ear for an extraordinary story, Caroline Eden travels from Odesa to Bessarabia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey's Black Sea region, exploring interconnecting culinary cultures. From the Jewish table of Odesa, to meeting the last fisherwoman of Bulgaria and charting the legacies of the White Russian emigres in Istanbul, Caroline gives readers a unique insight into a part of the world that is both shaded by darkness and illuminated by light. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"WdYUQQ text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eIn this updated edition of the book, Caroline reflects on the events of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent impact of the war on the people of the wider region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow Odesa, defiant against shelling and blackouts, has gained UNESCO protection while in Istanbul, over lunch with a Bosphorus ship-spotter, she finds out about the role of the Black Sea in the war and how Russians are smuggling stolen grain from Ukraine. 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