2/2 He was always in awe of everyone and everything, and never realised that he himself was a wonder of the world. Goodbye to an adventurer and a friend . . . .

1/2 Yesterday, we lost one of our greatest souls. Manchan came to Borris the first year in 2012 and most years since, sharing profundity and levity, outpourings of wisdom, story, curiosity, concern and laughter.

Abdulrazak Gurnah in The orangery with @samanthaharvey.bsky.social & @suerains.bsky.social 2/2

Mesmerizing multimedia piece by #williamkentridge in The Rookery

@manchanmagan.bsky.social & @merlinsheldrake.bsky.social at the Rookery

Fri 6 June 2025 - 2.45pm The Orangery - THE LOVE OF A WINGED CREATURE: @seanronayne.bsky.social - author of Nature Boy: A Journey of Birdsong talks to @hjm.bsky.social author of H is for Hawk #seanronayne #helenmacdonald #natureboy #hisforhawk @vintagebooks.bsky.social @hachettelibrary.bsky.social

Friday 6th June 1.15pm The Rookery SECRET MIRACLE WORKERS: Biologist and mycologist @merlinsheldrake.bsky.social author of 'Entangled Lives' talks to @manchanmagan.bsky.social about how fungi and their underground networks transform our understanding of how all life works

FRIDAY 6th June 2025
1.15 pm the Orangery
LIFE ON PLANET EARTH: 2024 @thebookerprizes winner Samantha Harvey (Orbital) in conversation with Nobel Prize-winner Abdulrazak Gurnah (Theft). With arts critic and novelist @suerains.bsky.social

@vintagebooks.bsky.social
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Beautiful reading & music at this special @writingandideas.bsky.social event with Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Colum McCann & Alec Clark in the Pepper Cannister Church last night - readings from and discussions about #Twist by Colum McCann - published yesterday by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social