The Canterbury Friends are presenting a new series of talks by local speakers and the next event will be with Dr Martin Latham, author of The Bookseller’s Tale.
St Paul’s Parish Centre, Church Street, Canterbury, CT1 1NH, on Thursday 26 November at 2.30pm. Admission £5 including refreshments.
Tickets on sale now – contact [email protected]
Dr Martin Latham was a lecturer at Hertfordshire University before becoming a bookseller. He has managed Waterstones bookshop in Canterbury for over 30 years – the longest-serving Waterstones manager. He is proud of ordering the excavation of the Roman Bath-House floor at the previous Waterstone’s bookshop in St Margaret St, paying for it with the biggest petty cash slip in Waterstones history and has run over 2000 author events. He is a frequent columnist in The Bookseller and is the author of Kent’s Strangest Tales and a contributor to the Oxford Guide to Twentieth Century Literature. His second book, Londonopolis, was published in 2014. His ode to books, The Bookseller’s Tale, was published in 2020 and was named a Book of the Year by The Spectator and the Evening Standard. Alan Bennett wrote of the book – ‘I’m astonished and envious at the scope of Martin’s knowledge and experience, a pleasure to read’.
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