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Every month Daunt Books holds a range of interesting author events featuring the likes of William Boyd, Alexander McCall Smith and Jan Morris. Please get in touch if you would like to reserve a signed copy from any of these events.
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London, You're Beautiful: An Artist's Year with David Gentleman
Tuesday, 22nd May at 7pm in Marylebone
David Gentleman has been drawing London all his adult life, and for the past year has spent his days focused on looking afresh at the city. The resulting book of sketches, drawings and watercolours, arranged month by month, shows a year in the life of London and reveals the city that is hidden in plain view. From its surprising expanse of sky to the crushed closeness of the tube, from Rainham Marshes to Hampstead Heath, David Gentleman gives us London on a human scale. Accompanied by his thoughts on looking and drawing, whether it is what catches his eye in a certain square or selecting the media - pencil, pen and ink, watercolour - best suited to capture each of the city's various aspects, as well as his reflections on the place he has lived in for over sixty years, this is a book for all those inspired by London, art and design.
David Gentleman is a watercolourist and printmaker, working in many media and scales. He has designed British stamps and coins and the platform-length mural at Charing Cross tube station, well-known to Londoners that is blown up from his wood engravings. His studio is at the top of an early Victorian house in Camden Town between the crowded, rackety Camden Lock and the green spaces of Regent's Park and Primrose Hill.
Tickets are £8 (including a glass of wine and 20% off the author's book). They may be purchased from our Marylebone shop in person, with credit/debit card by telephone (020 7224 2295) or here online.
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Walking Book Club
Sunday, 27th May at 11.30am on Hampstead Heath
Join other book-lovers for a walk on Hampstead Heath to discuss Ali Smith's remarkable novel The Accidental.
One hot summer day, a mysterious and beguiling stranger appears at the Smart family's Norfolk holiday home. She will trample over family boundaries and expose the many fractures in the family's relationships. Who is this stranger, and what does she want? Packed full of exuberant prose, joyful wordplay and stunning invention, The Accidental is an astonishing book about truth, chance and fate.
'Outstanding. Exuberantly inventive ... at once dazzlingly bright and profoundly dark.' The Sunday Times.
This event is free. Friends, children and dogs are all very welcome! Please join us at our shop on South End Road at 11.30am.