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Wednesday, June 01, 2022

An Evening With Two Authors, André Mangeot, Adam Croft, Oakham Festival 2022, The Dovetail, 51 High Street, Oakham. LE15 6AJ

An Evening With Two Authors

Meet two of the UK’s most engaging authors: André Mangeot a widely published poet and novelist and Adam Croft, a best selling crime author. 

About the Event

André Mangeot’s poetry has appeared in the Spectator, New Statesman and Times Literary Supplement and won prizes in many competitions. His latest collection is Blood Rain (Seren, 2020) that combines the personal and the public to touch on some of the major challenges now facing the planet.

He has also published two books of short stories, A Little Javanese and True North (Salt, 2008 & 2010) and recently completed a novel. For over ten years he was a member of the poetry ensemble The Joy of Six which performed at festivals across the UK and in New York. He lives in Cambridge. www.andremangeot.com

With over two million books sold to date, Adam Croft is one of the most successful independently published authors in the world, and one of the biggest selling authors of the past few years, having sold books in over 138 different countries.

To date, Adam has achieved seven Amazon storewide number 1 bestsellers, in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia. Adam is considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on independent publishing and has been featured on BBC television, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, the BBC World Service, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Bookseller and a number of other news and media outlets.

In March 2018, Adam was conferred as an Honorary Doctor of Arts, the highest academic qualification in the UK, by the University of Bedfordshire, in recognition of his services to literature. 

TIME/DATE

Wednesday 29th June 7:00 – 10:00pm 

TICKET INFO

£19.50 per person to include a glass of fizz and canapés. 

Buy tickets on eventbrite.co.uk

BOX OFFICE

To book call, 07878 520011

or at box offices:

Snapdragon

25 Mill St,

Oakham LE15 6EA

VENUE

The Dovetail, 51 High Street, Oakham. LE15 6AJ 7:00 – 10:00pm 

Friday, August 27, 2021

Person in Hospital after Serious Assault Leicestershire Police Forensic Investigation Oakham High Street Rutland Larger amounts of blood taped off outside The Dovetail Two 18-year-old men have been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm with intent with one of them also being arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon. They both remain in police custody.

Person in Hospital after Serious Assault Leicestershire Police Forensic Investigation Oakham High Street Rutland Larger amounts of blood taped off outside The Dovetail

Detectives are investigating an assault which happened in Oakham earlier today.

Police received a call at 2.11am this morning (Friday 27 August) to attend High Street and once officers arrived, they found a man in the street with head injuries.

He has been taken to hospital where he remains in a stable condition.

Two 18-year-old men have been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm with intent with one of them also being arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon. They both remain in police custody.

Officers are appealing for anyone who may have been out in the area at this time and witnessed the assault or the circumstances leading up to it to get in touch.

Anyone who has any information which could help our investigation is asked to contact police on 101 quoting 21*497761.

Alternatively you can report online at Report | Leicestershire Police (leics.police.uk)












Sunday, May 30, 2021

The Dovetail Oakham Rutland New

The Dovetail Oakham Rutland New