Writers ‘fest’ at book shop

(CNS): A number of leading authors will be visiting the Cayman Islands this month as part of Books and Books’ visiting author series. Local book worms will be able to meet Flora Fraser, Robert Alexander and Bob Morris during February at the store in Camana Bay. Robert Alexander aka R.D. Zimmerman will be the first of the three writers to visit on Friday, 20 February at 7pm. Alexander will read from his historical novel The Romnanov Bride which follows the lives of two revolutionary souls in Russia.

Then on Friday, 27 February Bob Morris, the author of the Zack Chasteen series of mysteries set in Florida and the Caribbean, will read from his newest mystery, A Deadly Silver Sea set aboard the most exclusive cruise ship in the world, the Royal Star.

Flora Fraser, the daughter of bestselling biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, uncovers the brilliant life of Napoleon’s favourite sister in a new biography, Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire on Saturday, 28 February, 7pm in a lecture on a subject she calls “the most outrageous character I have ever written about.”

All three readings will be followed by a book signing and are all free and open to the public.