We are delighted to welcome to The Taproom acclaimed author and broadcaster Ian Marchant.

Ian has worked for 25 years as a writer, broadcaster and performer and is a presenter on Radio 4’s long-running Open Country. He joins us to talk about his latest novel One Fine Stay.

ONE FINE DAY is a deeply moving and very funny book. A time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page.
Having written books on music, railways and pubs, Ian decided, as all men of a certain age must, to have a dig around his family history. Surprisingly quickly, a web search informed him that his seven-times-great great-grandfather, Thomas Marchant, had left a detailed diary from 1714 to 1728. So far, so jolly …

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