LIBRARY EVENTS 2010
Fulbourn
Village Library
presents
The
Big Book Group Evening
Tuesday
13th July 7.30pm at
the Swifts Library & Meeting Room
Ever
wanted to know what a Book Group is all about?
Come and hear the author Clare Clark talk about her new Book, Savage Lands, long-listed for the Orange Prize, and join the discussion afterwards.
You
don’t have to have read the book – just come and enjoy the experience!
“An absorbing tale of love and heartache set in the unforgiving terrain of 18th century Louisiana.”
23 February 2010 Drawing up your FAMILY TREE
Maureen Nicholls and Bernard Amps of the Cambridgeshire Family History Society came to Fulbourn Library on 23 February 2010 and gave us a very interesting talk on how to begin the search for our ancestors. This was followed by questions from the floor, and after coffee Maureen and Bernard were available to give individual help and advice. Members of Fulbourn History Society brought along their extensive records - a great help to Fulbourn residents. The event was very well attended and we have already had requests for another one next year!
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Local
Author, Jim Kelly talked to an audience of over 40 people, who were fascinated
to hear about the Locked Room Mystery i.e. an event/murder, which takes place in
a room with all doors and windows locked. He
gave examples from The Bible, Enid Blyton, Edgar Allan Poe and Conan Doyle.
He illustrated his talk with slides and showed us a picture of his ‘shed’ where he writes for three hours every day. He wanted to explore and update the ‘locked room’ scenario in his latest book, Death Wore White, In his shed he has a line of toy vehicles to set the scene. He imagined the traffic stationary in snow, which is the boundary for his ‘locked room’. The person in the front vehicle is alone and dead, with no footprints to or from the vehicle. How was the crime committed? I, for one am looking forward to reading the book and finding out.
Jim
Kelly uses real places for his inspiration but may mix them up to suit the
story. His latest book is set in Kings Lynn and the North Norfolk coast.
East Anglia is a popular setting for crime writers with its huge skies
and flat landscape with nowhere to hide.
After questions from the floor, drinks were served and Jim signed copies
of his books. Kathy presented him a
thank you gift for giving us a very enjoyable evening.
Saturday 26th
July 2009 - A book launch at Fulbourn’s new Library
Fulbourn Village Library moved into new premises in May in the Swifts, Haggis Gap. The Library received a grant from the Lottery funded Awards for All programme in January to run a Darwin Writing project in conjunction with Fulbourn, Great Wilbraham and Teversham Primary Schools. The project provided a poet, Clare Crossman, for some time in each school to support writing inspired by the life of Charles Darwin and his voyage in HMS Beagle. Some of that writing has been collected into an anthology and printed, with a cover designed by one of Fulbourn’s pupils. For photo click here
On
Saturday, 26 of the children involved, including some from each of the schools,
met in the Library and read their poems in front of an audience of some 80
people. They were thanked by
Professor Rebecca Stott, author of ‘Darwin and the Barnacle’, who
congratulated the children on their work.
Anyone
interested in the book should contact Gill Aslett, leader of the project, either
at the Library (see Opening Hours button) or on 01223 881254.
Darwin Writing Project see awards.pdf