Dave Parker

Dave Parker: H.G. Wells – The Life Behind the Writer

Tuesday 29 October, 5.45pm
Augustine Hall, Augustine House
Tickets £14 (Incl. £1.50 booking fee)

Dave Parker, Managing Director of the Canterbury Auction Galleries offers a fascinating insight into the life of Kent author H.G. Wells and the effect his futuristic writings have had through the decades.

Dave’s interesting and informative talk will bombard the audience with interesting facts, that will leave you with a far deeper understanding of this prolific author of more than 20 short stories and 50 novels including The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man.

Talks will last approximately one hour followed by a Q&A.

Books will be sold at the Talks and online by The Bookshop at Canterbury Christ Church University.

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Ann Veronica

Wells, H. G.

£11.69 £12.99

Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London.

Chris Mould's War of the Worlds: A Graphic Novel

Wells, H. G.

£15.29 £16.99

In 1894, across space, this earth was being watched by envious eyes, and plans were being drawn up for an attack. What seems to be a meteorite falls to earth, but from the debris, unfolds terrifying alien life...

Country of the Blind and other Selected Stories

Wells, H. G.

£11.69 £12.99

A consummate storyteller, the author made fantastic creatures and machines entirely believable; and, by placing ordinary men and women in extraordinary situations, he explored, with humor, what it means to be alive in a century of rapid scientific progress.

Great Science Fiction: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Short Stories

WELLS, H. G.

£11.69 £12.99

Modern Utopia

Wells, H. G.

£8.99 £9.99

While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers fall into a space-warp, and suddenly find themselves in another world.

Rights of Man

WELLS, H G

£8.99 £9.99

Sets some ideas instrumental in the creation of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the EU's European Convention on Human Rights and the UK's Human Rights Act.

Short History of the World

Wells, H. G.

£9.89 £10.99

From the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this work presents an account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. It considers such subjects as the Neolithic era, the rise of Judaism, the Golden Age of Athens, the life of Christ, the rise of Islam, and the discovery of America.

Sleeper Awakes

Wells, H. G.

£8.09 £8.99

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep- like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth.

The First Men in the Moon

Wells, H. G.

£8.99 £9.99

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent- minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity.

The War of the Worlds

Wells, H. G.

£8.99 £9.99

Tono-bungay

WELLS H G

£11.69 £12.99

Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed by his Uncle Edward to help market this ineffective medicine, he finds his life overwhelmed by its sudden success.

War in the Air

Wells, H. G.

£11.69 £12.99

Following the development of massive airships, naive Londoner Bert Smallways becomes accidentally involved in a German plot to invade America by air and reduce New York to rubble.