Hatchards welcomes authors Max Adams and Bonnie Garmus
The Piccadilly institution hosts two celebrated writers for intimate book signings, offering readers the chance to acquire personally inscribed editions of their latest works.
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Hatchards, the venerable Piccadilly bookshop, welcomed Max Adams to its historic shelves for a signing of her new work, Domesday. Adams’s exploration of Anglo Saxon England unfolds through the remarkable records of the Great Survey, that extraordinary administrative undertaking ordered by King William I in 1085. Her narrative retraces the path of the king’s agents as they chronicled the nation’s structure and economy in the pivotal years straddling the Norman Conquest, offering readers an intimate understanding of how power, property and governance transformed in medieval England.
The same distinguished venue played host to Bonnie Garmus, whose debut novel Lessons in Chemistry captured readers’ hearts, for the signing of her new literary creation, Peck & Peck. Garmus turns her attention to a young man whose life undergoes an unexpected metamorphosis when he finds himself employed by the world’s most prestigious, secretive and turbulent poetry journal. The novel moves with wit and warmth through the complications of working within such a singular institution, blending humour with genuine affection for its characters and their pursuits.
Both authors’ signed copies remain available through Hatchards’ Piccadilly store and its online platform, allowing readers to secure personally inscribed editions of these distinctive works. The bookshop, which has graced the corner of Piccadilly since 1797, continues its tradition of hosting writers and fostering the conversations between authors and their audiences that give literature its living dimension.
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