DissCover Sunday Afternoon: James Canton and Ian Collins
Venue: The Corn Hall
Sunday 3rd May at DissCover: 13:30 - 16:00
Big Sky Writing
Celebrating East Anglian Nature Writing
James Canton
13:30 – 14:30
James will be sharing his experience of ‘rewilding’ a two-acre field
in Essex with AJ Deane.
In Renaturing:
Small Ways to Wild the World, he goes further – exploring how
anyone, from ambitious gardeners to window-box owners, can
restore biodiversity and bring nature back, one small space at a
time.
James will be book signing at 16:15.
Ian Collins
15:00 – 16:00
Join this award-winning biographer, discussing with Robert
Ashton his acclaimed biography Blythe Spirit – The Remarkable
Life of Ronald Blythe, a tender, portrait of the author of Akenfield.
Drawing on unprecedented access to letters, notes, friendship, he
unveils the private life of one of England’s beloved chroniclers of
rural life.
Ian will be book signing at 16:15.
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