Looking for a change of venue for your bookclub? Why not arrange to hold your meeting at Arcadia? Afternoon tea, evening wine and cheese or coffee and cake - give us a call to reserve your date.

The wonderful Annabel Langbein will be instore on Saturday the 18th of December at 4pm signing copies of her best selling book 'The Free Range Cook'. Please join us for a glass of bubbles and a Christmas mince pie to celebrate Annabel's fantastic, action packed year and pick up the perfect present for any food lover. We look forward to seeing you there.

Join us instore and meet Darina Allen of the world-reknown Ballymaloe Cookery School. Darina will be signing her wonderful books, Forgotten Skills of Cooking, A Year At Ballymaloe Cookery School and Irish Traditional Cooking. Also joining Darina is our lovely friend, Lauraine Jacobs who was lucky enough to spend some time at Ballymaloe. Lauraine will be signing and chatting about her latest books The New Zealand Vegetable Cookbook and Comfort: Food for Sharing. We look forward to seeing you there.

We had a great day at Storylines, spending time with some of our favourite authors and friends. It was lovely seeing Joy Cowley signing books for a huge line of fans and catching up with our friend Stacy Gregg who told us that the Pony Club books are being made into a TV series! Very exciting.

We can't wait for more fun and laughter next year. See you there!

We had a great evening celebrating the launch of Lauraine Jacobs terrific new book, The New Zealand Vegetable Cookbook, and congratulations to Hugh Goodyear on winning the wonderful box of delicious vegetables.