Dust and Pomegranates Event with Victoria Whitworth – Thursday 28th November 2024

Please join us in the bookshop to celebrate the publication ofDust and Pomegranates: How Greece Changed Me Forever by Victoria Whitworth. Victoria will be in conversation with Caroline Eden.

6.30pm on Thursday 28th November at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street, EH3 5AQ.

Buy a copy ofDust and Pomegranates and receive free entry to the event, or choose our ticket-only option for 5 (which can be used towards a purchase of the book at the event).

About Victoria Whitworth

Victoria Whitworthis a novelist and academic who explores the culture and society of Britain in the Early Middle Ages, focusing on death, burial and memory. She is the author ofDying and Death in Later Anglo-Saxon England(as Victoria Thompson);The Bone ThiefandThe Traitors’ Pit(as V.M. Whitworth);Daughter of the WolfandSwimming with Seals.

About Dust and Pomegranates: How Greece Changed Me Forever

From a magical childhood in Kenya, through misery at an American high school, to rescue by an inspirational teacher in England, Victoria Whitworth weaves a sublimely rich narrative, which is both an ode to her beloved Greece and Corfu, and a highly original exploration of myth and legend. Her adventures in the often weird and unsettling world of a Corinth English language school, and the shattering experience of her rape by a Greek taxi driver, lead Victoria to question some deeply familiar stories. Did Agamemnon really kill his daughter Iphigenia, so the wind would fill their sails for Troy? Was beautiful Helen of Troy a powerful enchantress? Or a tragic victim? Was Theseus, the Minotaur slayer, a superhero, or a predatory rapist? Or were they all of these things? This beautiful memoir asks repeatedly where truth lies, and how, as women, we can survive violence and conquer fear.

About Caroline Eden

Caroline Eden is a writer and literary critic. She’s the author of several books, includingSamarkand(2016),Black Sea(2018) andRed Sands(2020). She has been awarded both the Art of Eating Prize and the Andrew Simon Award,andRed Sandswas a ‘book of the year’ for the FT, Sunday Times and The New Yorker.

Eden writes on books, food, travel and culture for theGuardian,Times Literary SupplementandFinancial Times, among many other publications. She has a weekly newsletter called Journeys Beyond Borders.
Her new book, celebrating the importance of curiosity and of feeling at home in the world, is an honest, and at times heartbreaking, memoir with the smell, taste and preparation of food at its heart. From late night baking as a route back to Ukraine to capturing the beauty of Uzbek porcelain, and from the troublesome nature of food and art in Poland to the magic of cloudberries.Cold Kitchenwas published by Bloomsbury in May 2024.