Please note: All seats are unreserved. Sarah-Clare Conlon performs an inspiring collection of new poems Flight Patterns about British birds on the red endangered list. Written in tribute to Didsbury naturalist Emily Williamson, who set up the RSPB in 1889, the poems take flight against a background of birdsong and church bells. After the interval, local historical novelist David Bissenden takes us behind the scenes of his 2021 Napoleon III crime thriller The French Emperors Woman and drops off in Frodsham for a chapter in his new novel Rivers of Silver, published this January.