• Carol Ann Duffy for A Christmas Eve Ghost Story

    St Swithin's Church 37 The Paragon, Bath, United Kingdom

    Topping are delighted to present a festive evening of poetry to celebrate the enchanting new Christmas poem from Carol Ann Duffy, former Poet Laureate.

  • The true costs of pleasure: visiting Georgian Bath

    BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United Kingdom

    The costs of the pleasures of visiting Bath in the Georgian period were not only the price of tickets to the balls, of tips for the Sedan chairmen and many other expenses

  • A C Grayling – Making peace in the culture wars

    BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United Kingdom

    A C Grayling’s book Discrimination: Making Peace in the Culture Wars takes the so-called “woke” side – but argues that the “woke” case is not best made

  • From Hand to Screen to Cloud: What is your Postdigital Positionality?

    BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United Kingdom

    Sarah Hayes’s book: Postdigital Positionality (2021) depicted the Internet as a ‘virtual airing cupboard’, where our hybrid human activities blur into ‘the cloud’ and fragment into biodigital data.

  • Italy in the Global Renaissance

    BRLSI 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United Kingdom

    BRLSI are delighted to be joined by Professor Virginia Cox, author of the forthcoming Cambridge University Press book The Italian Renaissance: A Cultural History”.

  • Christmas Evening Special Guest: Harriet Lowther

    Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath York Street, Bath, United Kingdom

    Join Toppings on their first Christmas evening of the season for an exclusive signing with Harrier Lowther!

  • Phenomenal Women: An Evening with Susannah Harker

    The Gainsborough Bath Spa Beau St, Bath

    Join The Gainsborough Bath Spa for a unique literary event in the heart of Bath—featuring none other than ‘Jane Bennet’ herself, Susannah Harker

  • What The Dickens

    What The Dickens

    Theatre Royal Sawclose, Bath, Bath & North East Somerset, United Kingdom

    Join Jane Tapley for an illustrated talk on Charles Dickens, following his career path from political reporter to novelist supreme.

  • Damon Hill

    The Forum Bath 1A Forum Buildings, Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom

    The 1996 FIA Formula 1 World Drivers’ Champion Damon Hill is one of the sport’s most respected figures, remembered for his thrilling battles with Michael Schumacher