Aylsham Town Read

The much-loved Aylsham Town Read returns for the sixth time to discuss one man’s poignant journey across the East of England. Please join us on Wednesday 25th November to take part in our bi-annual town-wide book club where we’ll be in conversation with author Jeremy Page discussing his freshly re-issued title New York to California. Novelist, traveller, scriptwriter, photographer: Jeremy Page is a man with a broad view of wide horizons. But on approaching middle age, he experienced a calling to return to the place which he – and his ancestors – had called home. Like the migratory eel, retracing a route back to somewhere it had once fought to leave, he decided to take a long, slow journey through a landscape both familiar but also separated by time and distance from his current life. Starting in the tiny Lincolnshire fen-village of New York, Page sets off with an eccentric companion and a dog, following a similar path to his forebears – through fenland, along coastlines, into cities and across broads. His destination: another village with an improbable stateside name – California – on the East Norfolk coast. The Town Read is a collaboration with the team at Aylsham Library. To take part, all you have to do is get hold of a copy – either borrowed from the library or bought from The Book Hive Aylsham for the reduced price of £9 – book your ticket for the meeting and give it a read to prepare for a brilliant conversation between the author and your fellow readers! Aylsham Town Read Wednesday 25th November The Friendship Hall, Aylsham Doors 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start FREE