A event held at Bookhaus on Tuesday 3rd June. The event starts at 18:00.
Join authors Marchelle Farrell and Marianne Brown in conversation about community and belonging amid a backdrop of climate crisis and energy exploitation. Hear about positive climate action happening right here in Bristol and share your own experience of mobilising collective power.
Marchelle Farrell is a writer, medical psychotherapist, and amateur gardener, born in Trinidad and Tobago, but having spent over 20 years attempting to become hardy here in the UK. Her work explores the relationship between our external and internal landscapes, the patterns we reenact in relation to the land, and how they might be changed. Her debut book, Uprooting, won the Nan Shepherd Prize for nature writing, and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for nature writing.
Marianne Brown is a writer and journalist raised in Edinburgh and based in Devon. Her book The Shetland Way: Community and Climate Crisis on My Father’s Islands (Borough Press, 2025) tells how a visit for her father’s funeral led to a journey to the roots of a hugely controversial onshore wind farm.
Author talk and Q&A (45 mins)
Our shared stories (30 mins)
Members of the audience invited to share their experience, including representatives from the community energy sector Bristol Energy Cooperative and Bristol Energy Network, campaign Stop Rosebank and more.
Networking (15 mins)
Tickets cost £6 and include a glass of wine or a soft drink and £2 off the books. Presented by bookhaus
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Marchelle Farrell is a writer, medical psychotherapist, and amateur gardener, born in Trinidad and Tobago, but having spent over 20 years attempting to become hardy here in the UK. Her work explores the relationship between our external and internal landscapes, the patterns we reenact in relation to the land, and how they might be changed. Her debut book, Uprooting, won the Nan Shepherd Prize for nature writing, and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for nature writing.
Marianne Brown is a writer and journalist raised in Edinburgh and based in Devon. Her book The Shetland Way: Community and Climate Crisis on My Father’s Islands (Borough Press, 2025) tells how a visit for her father’s funeral led to a journey to the roots of a hugely controversial onshore wind farm.
Author talk and Q&A (45 mins)
Our shared stories (30 mins)
Members of the audience invited to share their experience, including representatives from the community energy sector Bristol Energy Cooperative and Bristol Energy Network, campaign Stop Rosebank and more.
Networking (15 mins)
Tickets cost £6 and include a glass of wine or a soft drink and £2 off the books. Presented by bookhaus
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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