Calder Bookshop
An Independent Bookshop in the Heart of London
(also known as The Bookshop Theatre)
In 2000 John Calder opened the Calder Bookshop on the Cut. The bookshop is now undergoing a period of expansion. It specializes in literary fiction, poetry and drama, and hosts a variety of discussions, literary readings, film showings, music events and theatre performances. The shop is located near the Old Vic (and opposite the Young Vic) on 51 The Cut, close to Waterloo station. If you have never been there, please come along to browse our selection of books. A full list of events (up to three months in advance) is available from the bookshop.
Calder Bookshop
51 TheCut
London SE1 8LF
Tel. +44 (0)20 7620 2900
For more information and to place book orders, please email Alex Middleton, the bookshop manager, on "amiddleton" followed by the @ sign, followed by calderbookshop.com
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Calder Bookshop Events Apr 2010
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Thursday 29th April 7.00 p.m.
WALTER SCOTT’S WAVERLEY
Scott’s first novel was published anonymously and became an instant bestseller. It is the only novel ever to have had a major railway station named after it. Read by actors, it brings the eighteenth century to life.
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Thursday 6th May 7.00 p.m.
POLITICAL SPEECHES OF THE PAST
On the day of the most unpredictable general election in living memory, John Calder introduces readings from some famous political orations of the past, including pieces by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Edmund Burke and Wolfe Tone. The readers are Tony Rohr and Oengus Macnamara.
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Thursday 13th May 7.00 p.m.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
John Calder discusses the life and work of Arthur Rimbaud (1854–91), the French symbolist poet who wrote some of the most remarkable verse and prose of the nineteenth century. The readers are Virginia Byron and Michael Howarth.
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Thursday 21st May 7.00 p.m.
OMAR KHAYYÁM
A selection from Edward FitzGerald’s definitive translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, a selection of poems attributed to the medieval Persian polymath Omar Khayyám (1048–1131). Introduced by John Calder and read by Peter Marinker.
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Thursday 27th May 7.00 p.m.
THE McCARTHY WITCH TRIALS
John Calder introduces a selection of writings about the persecution of communists at the hands of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the United States of the 1950s.
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Unless otherwise stated, entry is £6 (concessions £4)
Contributions are invited for wine afterwards
Booking advisable
Telephone: 020 7620 2900
email: amiddleton@calderbookshop.com
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