A YORKSHIRE NOSTALGIA EVENING WITH ANDREW MARTIN ‘ AND MASTON TAYLOR – 22ND SEPT, RICHMOND TOWN HALL

Thank you to Benedict Simpson-Alexander, in Year 12, who has written a blog about A Yorkshire Nostalgia Evening with Andrew Martin ‘Yorkshire There and Back’ and Matson Taylor ‘All about Evie’. Hosted by the Walking and Book Festival, the event takes place at Richmond Town Hall on 22^nd September at 7:30pm.

Tickets are only £10 and can be booked here.

Refreshments and a book stall will be available and the venue has disabled access.  Please enjoy Benedict’s blog below.

A Yorkshire Nostalgia Evening with Andrew Martin ‘Yorkshire There and Back’ and Matson Taylor ‘All about Evie’.

At Richmond Town Hall on 22^nd September, it seems as if two Sundays are actually coming together. Join us in having the privilege of hearing from two incredible authors, Matson Taylor and Andrew Martin, discussing the wonders of England’s largest county. Two different stories uniting under one common theme – the audience won’t be disappointed.

Barrister turned writer, Andrew Martin has been a valued member of the literary world ever since winning The Spectator Young Writer of the Year Award in 1988. His thriller series of the Stringer novels have received numerous shortlistings, with ‘The Somme stations’ winning the CWA Ellis Peters Award for Historical fiction. However, in Yorkshire, there and back, Martin travels back to his childhood in the 70s to compare the ever-changing county to what it is today. With the chocolate prowess of York, and the oasis of culture hidden underneath the party-going surface of Leeds, Martin explores all that is quintessentially Yorkshire.

Matson Taylor grew up in Yorkshire, The ‘flat part’ as he puts it, and is now based in London. But don’t let this fool you. He is Yorkshire through and through. His first book, ‘The Miseducation of Evie Epworth’ portrays Evie’s unimaginative life in rural Yorkshire, contrasted with the inspiration of her trailblazing idols. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley Maclaine, and the Queen form her dreams of a life far away from the agriculture of East Yorkshire. Fast forward to ten years later, and Evie has fulfilled her dream and now lives in London, working for the BBC in ‘All about Evie’. However, an unfortunate turn of events forces her to rethink her life entirely…

Anecdotes, ideas and a culture brimming with heritage and history won’t be in short supply. If you are interested in the beauty and brilliance of ‘God’s own country’, then this is the event for you.