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                                    Wednesday 19 May 20107.45pm
 Woodend Barn, Banchory
                                    Poetry workshop with Haworth Hodgkinson
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                                    Thursday 20 May 20107.30pm
 Cellar 35, Aberdeen
                                    Bill Kirton and Olivia McMahon
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                                    Friday 21 May 20107pm
 Better Read Books, Ellon
                                    with guest poet Knotbrook Taylor
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                                    Saturday 22 May 20101pm
 Better Read Books, Ellon
                                    Book signing with Michael William Molden
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                                    Wednesday 26 May 20107.30pm
 Aberdeen Arts Centre, Aberdeen
                                    Launching the latest in a series of art-inspired poetry anthologies
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                                    Thursday 27 May 20106.30pm
 Books and Beans, Aberdeen
                                    Launching Bryony Harrower's first collection
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        The Strawberry Garden
    
        Book signing with Michael William Molden
    
        
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                    Saturday 22 May 2010
                    1pm–3pm
 Better Read Books
 18 Ythan Terrace, Ellon AB41 9LJ
                    Admission free
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        Local author Michael William Molden launched his debut novel To Save My Father's
            Soul six years ago at Better Read Books. Now he is back in Ellon to sign
        copies of his latest novel The Strawberry Garden.
     
        
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                    The Strawberry Garden tells the story of Richard Deacon, a man whose
                    single-minded determination, bordering on obsession, gained him everything a man
                    could wish for. However his relentless pursuit of financial success cost him his
                    marriage and estranged his only son. His business dealings take him to France and
                    there he meets by chance a penniless deaf gypsy boy. Over time he begins to realise
                    that his wealth means nothing at all without friendship and love. When his unlikely
                    relationship with the boy comes under the scrutiny of the local authority and becomes
                    the subject of growing gossip he is forced to make a decision. Does he risk everything
                    he has taken a lifetime to build to maintain his relationship with the boy or does
                    he turn his back and walk away?
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