Wed 28 May

Lone Wolf: Pre-launch Event & Author Q&A

About this event

“Extraordinary…A glob­al sto­ry told through the lens of one species” Tobias Jones, author of The Dark Heart of Italy

From the win­ner of the Sun­day Times Young Writer of the Year Award comes an epic walk across the Alps in the foot­steps of a wolf, throw­ing unique light on Europe’s moun­tain­ous hin­ter­lands at a moment of polit­i­cal and envi­ron­men­tal change. 

In 2011, a young wolf named Slavc set out from Slove­nia. Tracked by GPS, he trav­elled a thou­sand miles through the Alps, arriv­ing four months lat­er on the Lessin­ian plateau, north of Verona. There had been no wolves in north­ern Italy for a cen­tu­ry, but here he crossed paths with a female wolf on a walk­a­bout of her own. A decade lat­er and there are more than a hun­dred wolves back in the area, the result of their remark­able meeting.

In Lone Wolf, local writer Adam Wey­mouth walks Slavc’s path, exam­in­ing the changes fac­ing these wild cor­ners of Europe. Here, the call to rewild meets the urge to pre­serve cul­ture; nation­al­ism and glob­al­i­sa­tion pull apart; cli­mate change is rad­i­cal­ly chang­ing lives; and migrants, too, are on the move.

Join him in con­ver­sa­tion about his new book, on the eve of pub­li­ca­tion. Books on sale a day before pub­li­ca­tion — Get them before any­one else!

Tick­ets:

£5 entry – donat­ed to Kent Wildlife Trust

or

£18.99 entry – includes a signed copy of the hard­back and a free drink on arrival.

FAITHINSTRANGERS, MARGATE

Faith in Strangers is a restau­rant, cul­tur­al venue, and co-work­ing space designed to gath­er peo­ple around great food, bold sound, and big ideas. With panoram­ic sea views and front-row seats to Margate’s icon­ic sun­sets, Faith in Strangers brings togeth­er din­ing, music, and cel­e­bra­tion under one roof.
 

Schedule

6:30 PM

Doors