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£7.00 Standard Ticket 
£25.00 Book + Ticket 

Beautiful, remote and dangerous – for generations we have looked to the mountains in awe. Yet, for most, that is where the fascination ends. For a rare few, however, the allure of the peaks proved irresistible. There are the devout Incan priests who, scaling the Andes’ icy slopes to pay tribute to each mountain’s ‘Great Lord’, travelled higher than any European would for centuries.The Gurkha riflemen who joined their commanders in canvassing the Karakoram, admiring the distant summits of Broad Peak and K2 with gleeful anticipation. The tweed-clad mountaineers who made the first serious assaults on Everest, hauling yards upon yards of battered rope through the cold. Tracing the world altitude record from the ashy slopes of the sacred volcano Llullaillaco to the icy crags and crevasses of the Karakoram, Daniel Light takes a panoramic journey through the storied history of mountaineering before Everest.

Joining a cast of colourful characters, The White Ladder offers an ode to mountains’ capacity to enthral, and the fundamental human drive to climb higher and higher. 
 

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£7.00 standard ticket 
£22.00 Book + Ticket 

Join us for an evening with Peter James, creator of Her Majesty Queen Camilla’s favourite fictional detective. 23 million books sold. The latest race-against-time instalment of the award-winning Grace series by Peter James, now a major ITV show. 

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Standard Ticket £7.00
Book + Ticket £28.00

​​​​​​Step into the heart of India's vibrant culinary heritage with Romy Gill's India. Renowned chef Romy Gill takes you on a charming journey through her ancestral kitchens in the Bengal and Punjab region, where she discovered the true essence of home-cooked Indian cuisine.

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£7.00 Standard Ticket 
£14.99 Book + Ticket 

General Admission = £7.00
Admission + Book = £22.00

The modern-day cry is that the high street is dying. But are our present concerns so different from those of the past?Historian Annie Gray takes us down the street and through the ages, from medieval marketplaces to the purpose-built concrete precincts still standing today. Peeping inside the windows of tailors, tearooms and grocers, we explore everything from the toyshops of yesteryear - places where curiosities were sold for adults rather than children - to the birth of brands we still shop at today.

Vibrant with historical detail and surprising wares, The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker is an essential reflection on how we shopped and lived in days gone by - and what the future may bring.

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Standard (including cheese tasting) £10.00
Book + Ticket (including cheese tasting) £18.99

Join us for an event with the wonderful Ned Palmer, back at David's for his latest book and a cheese tasting! 

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Standard ticket £7.00
Book + Ticket £27.00

Meera Sodha is coming to the bookshop for an event celebrating her latest cookbook Dinner. Dinner is a fresh and joyful celebration of the power of a good meal all created to answer the question: What's for dinner? in an exciting and delicious way. Discover 120 vibrant, easy-to-make vegetarian and vegan main dishes bursting with flavour, including baked butter paneer, kimchi and tomato spaghetti, and aubergines roasted in satay sauce. There are also mouthwatering desserts, such as coconut and cardamom dream cake and bubble tea ice cream, and exciting side dishes, such as salt and vinegar potato salad and asparagus and cashew thoran.