Forthcoming Events

Tuesday 13th July - 7pm

Finzean Community Hall

PETER MARREN

Peter Marren is already well known to many Deeside residents. The author of Grampian Battlefields and A Natural History of Aberdeen, Peter worked for the Nature Conservancy Council between 1977 and 1984. He was responsible for protected sites in Kincardine and Deeside and the City of Aberdeen, a “wonderful home turf which included half of the Cairngorms, native pine woods, five National Nature Reserves and the whole of the river Dee”. He was also the local recorder of the Botanical Society of the British Isles.

 

Since leaving the North-east, Peter has continued to write both books and journalism. His The New Naturalist is credited with turning around that astonishing series, while the Observer’s Book of Observer’s Books is in itself a cult classic. Here to discuss Bugs Britannica, I’m sure this will be a fantastic night for any natural history buff.

Tickets £3, available from the Banchory shop.

Wednesday 28th July - 7pm

In our Elgin shop

BRUCE BISHOP

We are are delighted to announce the publication and launch of a major new book on the area, ‘Lost Moray and Nairn’ by Bruce Bishop FSA Scot. Join us to celebrate a chronicle of buildings, people and culture, now sadly ‘lost’ to the local communities.

Tickets £3, available from the Elgin shop.

 

Active Aboyne Outdoor Activities Festival 2010

Yeadon's is delighted to host 2 events in which a common theme of fishing

allows two distinguished authors to take a very different approach to aspects of life in Scotland.

Wednesday 15th September - 7pm

Victory Hall, Aboyne

RICHARD SHELTON

will be talking about To Sea and Back in which personal and historical stories are combined with deep scientific knowledge to produce a dazzling portrait of a quintessentially Scottish fish.

Richard headed the Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory at Pitlochry from 1982 to 2001 and is currently Research Director of the Atlantic Salmon Trust.

Tickets £4, available from the Banchory shop.

Sunday 19th September - 5pm

Finzean Community Hall

ANDREW GREIG

The award-winning poet and novelist will introduce his latest, and most personal book, At the Loch of the Green Corrie, where a fishing trip to honour a dying friend's wish becomes a meditation on life, nature and friendship, a literary biography and a celebration of the beauty of the Highlands.

As a 'wannabe singer/songwriter' (his own description) Andrew will be entertaining us with readings and song.

Tickets £4, available from the Banchory shop.

 

PAST EVENTS have included:

CHRIS HARVIE

SHONA MACLEAN

MAIRI HEDDERWICK

VINCE CABLE

KATE ADIE

ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH

RICHARD HOLLOWAY

STANLEY ROBERTSON