Louis D. Hall & Manni Coe with Dan Richards- Edinburgh West End

We are looking forward to welcoming Louis D. Hall and Manni Coe to the shop on Tuesday 28th October at 7pm as they talk to Dan Richards about their deeply engaging and equally powerful memoirs, In Green and Little Ruins.

In Green

In his mid-twenties, city-bound and restless, Louis D. Hall found himself uncertain. How to create a life he wanted to lead? Inspired by Don Quixote, he decided to fulfil a childhood dream – to make an uncharted journey on horseback.

After finding his horse, Sasha, in Italy’s Apennine Mountains, Louis set off and headed west. His destination: Cape Finisterre, ‘the end of the land’. For three weeks Louis and Sasha survived storms, snow, wolves and the untrodden partisan paths of the Ligurian Alps.

Using old and forgotten routes, guided by strangers and nature’s clues, the adventure unravels into a wilder way of life; united by the mysteries of the horse, enticed by the illusions of adventure.

Little Ruins

From the author of highly acclaimed former Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month brother. do. you. love. me, comes another deeply moving account of rebuilding family in the face of past trauma, as Manni and his unconventional family encounter problems both practical and psychological when they move to a remote valley in Andalusia.

Looking to begin a new chapter after years on the move, Manni Coe and his partner take a risk and buy 'The Corner', a crumbling but beautiful 150-year-old farmstead tucked into a remote valley in Andalusia, surrounded by olive trees. It's perfect for their unconventional family of three: Jack, Manni and his youngest brother, Reuben.

But nothing is ever so simple, as Manni starts to realise that the scars from his childhood - kept hidden for all these years - might not have healed at all, a single, terrible event threatens everything the three of them have spent so long building together.

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