Plans are going well for the press launch of my new book next Friday (July 1).
We are already expecting 50-60 people and we are waiting to hear from many more invited guests.
The great, great grandson of Charles Dickens, Gerald, will be launching the book at 11.45 until 12.30 in the hotel’s historic Ballroom (see the photo by Richard Bishop below).
Little has changed over the centuries to the 18th century Ballroom or Assembly Room, since Prince William of Gloucester, later King William IV, attended a ball there in 1803, or where the famous Italian musician Nicolo Paganini gave a concert there in 1833.
The architectural scholar and writers, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and John Newman, have described it as “an amazing room, of priceless value to the student and lover of art, and to see it alone is well worth a pilgrimage to The Lion”.
At the launch in the Ballroom Gerald will also be talking about his one-man Dickens shows and revealing his plans for a Dickens weekend at the hotel on February 3-5, 2012, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the author’s birth plus talking about the book to which he has written the foreword.
The Mayor of Shrewsbury, Councillor Tony Durnell, will also say a few words about the book.
If you are interested in attending the press launch please let me know. I still have a few spare tickets.
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