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Renowned local author and historian Pamela Brooks visits Great Yarmouth
to talk about Scandals, Sieges, Spooks and Norfolk Poisoners.
Renowned author and historian Pamela Brooks invites you to join her for an evening of ghastly and ghostly tales, thankfully though not by candlelight. Pamela will be telling tales from her books ‘Norfolk Ghosts and Legends’ and ‘Ghastly True Tales of the Norfolk Poisoners’.
Ever since she was a tiny child (small enough to be scared by the polar bear in Norwich castle!) Pamela has been fascinated by the castles and monastic ruins in Norfolk. The ancient buildings that stand in the Norfolk landscape are often associated with the supernatural and stories of strange events. Pamela finds the human stories behind the stones of these buildings fascinating. Stories of sieges and bloodshed, of visionaries and ghosts, and of scandals among the monks and nuns. In ‘Norfolk Ghosts and Legends’, Pamela visits these castles and priories, often now in ruins. Herself a self-confessed ‘addict of ruins and ancient buildings’ the author encourages, where public access is allowed, her readers to visit for themselves these places - with the warning to be wary! Here lurk the spirits of murdered monarchs, ghostly grey monks and vanishing silver chalices!
Sites covered in the book include: Baconsthorpe Castle • Bacton Abbey • Beeston Priory • Buckenham Castle • Burnham Priory • Burgh Castle • Caister Castle • Castle Acre • Castle Rising • Gresham Castle • Hickling Priory • Marham Abbey • North Elmham Chapel • Norwich Castle • Pentney Priory • St Benet’s Abbey • Thetford Priory •Walsingham •Wymondham Abbey and many more.
Pamela will also be recounting tales from ‘Ghastly True Tales of the Norfolk Poisoners’, anyone interested in local history and stories of true crime will be intrigued. This is one of the few books which deals specifically with the murders around Norwich and Norfolk. The book covers 15 or so actual crimes from the heyday of poisoning – the nineteenth-century.
Notes:
Pamela will be giving a talk and Q&A session followed by a books signing on Wednesday 19h August from 7pm-8pm at Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth. Advance tickets are £1 and can be redeemed against a copy of one of Pamela’s books at the event. Tickets can be bought in person from Books Inside, Market Gates, Gt Yarmouth, reserved by phone on 01493 850777 or email orders@booksinside.co.uk
For those not able to get the talk, signed copies can be ordered online at www.thelocalbookshop.co.uk
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